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Scotland’s Valentine 91

Posted on February 16, 2014 by

hamishvalentine

VOTE MILIBOT 3000 120

Posted on February 11, 2014 by

We always feel a bit bad when we point out in the interests of reality that Labour isn’t going to win the 2015 general election, because notwithstanding the fact that they’re only actually about 1% to the left of the Tories, 1% is still better than nothing.

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And as we’re having a bit of an Ed Miliband day today, we thought we should do something constructive for the millionaire leader of the People’s Party for balance, so we’ve put together a nice picture gallery of Not Very Red Ed to show how at ease he is meeting members of the public, and how if he gets elected he’ll be closely in touch with the concerns of ordinary hard-working people.

Take comfort, readers. The Milibot 3000 is ++ ON YOUR SIDE ++.

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Fields of gold 86

Posted on February 08, 2014 by

scheme

The tumbleweed express 136

Posted on January 31, 2014 by

We were expecting the turnout for the No campaign’s Great Train Mobbery to be a lot better for the afternoon session, on account of the fact that nobody would have to get up at 6am to go and leaflet a dark, freezing-cold railway station.

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The opposite turned out to be true.

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The lonely hours 309

Posted on January 31, 2014 by

We take our hats off to the No campaigners who braved a cold, dark Scottish morning to go and hand out leaflets to the public at train stations across the country today.

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We’d have preferred it if they were distributing leaflets that weren’t packed with a litany of flat-out lies, of course, but we suppose you can’t have everything.

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The referendum in pictures 197

Posted on January 28, 2014 by

In quieter moments recently we’ve been working away on early drafts of our next opinion poll (schedule TBA). We’ve got some interesting questions lined up for it, but it dawned on us earlier that with polls now coming out every other day, it might be fun to do something a bit original and different.

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One of the hardest things about writing a poll is wording questions in a way that’s both fair and concise, because a confusingly-phrased one can really mess up the responses. (We actually lost one in our last poll because we hadn’t made it quite clear enough and the results that came back were muddled-up and useless.)

And we thought, what if we did away with words entirely?

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Disaster for Yes campaign 39

Posted on January 28, 2014 by

Now it all makes sense.

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But how will we get by without our best undercover agent? We’re in trouble now.

Making your mind up 69

Posted on January 21, 2014 by

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(Source here.)

International espionage 47

Posted on January 14, 2014 by

Our undercover mole in the No campaign got in touch last night to apologise for the fact that he hadn’t sent us much recently. It turned out he’d been hastily despatched to foreign lands to supervise the setting up of “Better Together Moscow”. But he managed to smuggle its first piece of work out to us inside a diplomatic bag.

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For Mike Dailly 93

Posted on January 09, 2014 by

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Don’t have nightmares 70

Posted on January 07, 2014 by

The true meaning of “Better Together”.

miliron2

Now that’s what we call Project Fear.

The best of both worlds 80

Posted on January 06, 2014 by

It’s only January 6, but the 2014 satire bar just got set pretty high:

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