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.
Geri on And Nothing Happened Forever: “What Rot Aye, but it can be a quick digest/brief summary if you only pay attention to the official sources…” May 9, 14:39
What Rot on And Nothing Happened Forever: “We DID start somewhere. We’ll never get closer than to where Alex took us. The generation that fought with Alex…” May 9, 14:37
Minceheid on And Nothing Happened Forever: “robertkknight says: 9 May, 2026 at 1:38 pm Best toddle off back to Wee Ginger Fud. To be honest I’d…” May 9, 14:30
TURABDIN on And Nothing Happened Forever: “What’s happening in QUÉBEC… https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251030-30-years-after-cliffhanger-vote-quebec-separatists-voice-hope-for-independence Mon dieu, a 17 year old rapper…… SNP looking a bit carehome?” May 9, 14:25
Izzie on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Sorry dont know what you mean? After the troubles the Party has experienced and the dite predictions of a yesr…” May 9, 14:18
What Rot on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Why do people keep quoting AI responses as any kind of evidence of anything. AI is not facts; it’s simply…” May 9, 14:06
Cynicus on And Nothing Happened Forever: “”[…the SNP] are the corpse blocking our path. The less popular they get, the more our chances recede, and they’re…” May 9, 14:01
Izzie on And Nothing Happened Forever: “I have athritis and cataracts but take your criticism on board. I am sure you are not a mean person” May 9, 14:01
Young Lochinvar on And Nothing Happened Forever: “I think MSMs coverage pretty well sums up the position that we know we find ourselves in. Elections for the…” May 9, 13:43
robertkknight on And Nothing Happened Forever: “SNP losing over 400,000 voters in 5 years, with a net loss in MSPs and relying on biology denying zealots…” May 9, 13:38
panda paws on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Do you really think low information voters are a) watching the results b) even if they do see the explanation,…” May 9, 13:36
Geri on And Nothing Happened Forever: “I dunno why you mentioned P but now that you have – it’d be a blessing if he DID come!…” May 9, 13:16
Young Lochinvar on And Nothing Happened Forever: “A Talk of the devil, you had to mention Auld Bleary’s name and up he pops through a crack in…” May 9, 13:13
Sven on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Lorncal @ 11.59. As far as I know Ms Slater was born 27/11/1975 in Calgary, District of Alberta, Canada. She…” May 9, 13:11
Young Lochinvar on And Nothing Happened Forever: “AI Dun Yes, you did AI Dun, but then again those willing to consider and vote on it did say…” May 9, 13:05
Sven on And Nothing Happened Forever: “As far as I can see, Izzie, the SNP entered the last Holyrood session with some 64 MSPS, they enter…” May 9, 12:53
Alf Baird on And Nothing Happened Forever: ““I had hped witj the SNP on the up that people will be pleased” According to postcolonial theory all we…” May 9, 12:51
100%Yes on And Nothing Happened Forever: “So why isn’t people getting D’Hondt Method and why oh why is the SNP saying two votes SNP. I was…” May 9, 12:46
Heather McLean on And Nothing Happened Forever: “The franchise for the Scottish Parliament needs to be revisited and reformed so that only permanent residents in Scotland can…” May 9, 12:39
Geri on And Nothing Happened Forever: “The moment I read about the work visa – klaxons sounded. USaid activists are funded from all over the world…” May 9, 12:23
Minceheid on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Bilbo says: 9 May, 2026 at 10:32 am In 2020, the Scottish Parliament passed the Scottish Elections (Franchise and Representation)…” May 9, 12:19
Lorncal on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Izzy: there is not one day passes that does not witness someone enter the BTL commentary to tell everyone how…” May 9, 12:15
Andrew Kidd on And Nothing Happened Forever: “I think the voters rather than the press will make an association with the performance of pro-indy parties and the…” May 9, 12:14
Northcode on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Aye, Geri… setting my facetious nature aside for a moment, garnering so many votes in just a couple of months…” May 9, 12:11
TURABDIN on And Nothing Happened Forever: “«You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief – and sometimes, when cucumber…” May 9, 12:09
Stevo on And Nothing Happened Forever: “You have seen the news this morning. The crypt has been opened and he’s back as and economic advisor!” May 9, 12:06
Lorncal on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Bilbo: indeed. Nowhere else would this be allowed. I believe that Lorna Slater was born in Scotland and moved to…” May 9, 11:59
Cuphook on And Nothing Happened Forever: “It’s not too early, and it’s not really an electoral issue: it’s about polarity. The Greens are limited to university…” May 9, 11:58
panda paws on And Nothing Happened Forever: ““even the BBC highlighted that if a party wins big on the constituency the party isn’t going to win any…” May 9, 11:54
Minceheid on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Bilbo says: 9 May, 2026 at 10:59 am * It is possible that the Green MSP has been illegally elected…” May 9, 11:51
