So as we’re busy today we’ll just refer you to some of the previous occasions we’ve covered it, because literally everything about it is exactly the same now as it was then.
Although this site is blacklisted by the press regulator IPSO and therefore unable to file complaints about inaccurate and misleading newspaper articles, our alert readers sometimes pick up the baton from Wings articles and do the job themselves.
But the reader who took up that complaint has furnished us with a bit of interesting background to the story, and also news of a rather more alarming outcome.
We’re seriously starting to think there’s some sort of competition going on among the Unionist parties of Scotland to see who’s the thickest. We’ve spent quite a bit of time pointing out the scarcely-believable dimness of the Scottish Conservative benches, but this week Scottish Labour really pulled out the stops to try to seize back the initiative.
Yesterday was quite an eventful day, so it’s moderately possible you may have missed the alarming news that some shady Mafia-backed hedge fund or such has apparently funded these irresponsible and morally-suspect chancers (last seen shilling on air for literally Vladimir Putin and BBC Scotland, in that order) to produce an all-new series of scurrilous and dubious fact-grubbing for some inexplicable reason.
We have alerted the appropriate authorities. For safety, remain in your homes.
Let there be no mistake about what just happened. Last night, Scottish devolution – an institution 111 years in the promising, just 19 years a reality – died. Iain Macwhirter summed it up concisely and accurately.
It’s probably fair to say that the voters of Scotland have been feeling a little put-upon lately. In the last decade they’ve been sent to polling stations on no fewer than 12 occasions (Holyrood elections in 2011 and 2016, UK elections in 2010, 2015 and 2017, council elections in 2012 and 2017, European elections in 2009 and 2014, and finally referendums on AV, independence and the EU).
And they’ve been subjected to endless weeks, months or even years of campaigning and haranguing each time. One woman – who only had to endure nine of those 12 – had famously had enough of it.
Yet Scots face possibly three more in the next 12 months or so, if various factions get their way, taking the total to 15 major votes in a decade. And if we want to secure the desired outcome in any of them, we’re going to have to ease the load on folk a bit.
This Wings story from April about a wildly untrue Scottish Daily Mail front-page splash has been entirely vindicated by a correction in the paper today, conceding both of the key complaints we made in our piece.
The Mail has, as you’d imagine, printed the correction rather smaller than the original story, so we thought we’d blow it up a little here for easier reading.
Because we’re sure they wouldn’t want anyone to miss it.
DavidT on Search And Replace: “If the first version is embezzlement, is the second not fraud?” Jul 6, 02:33
crazycat on Search And Replace: “Yes, exactly. The website for the 2017 fund-raiser had the URL ref.scot, not snp.org, though that appeared on receipts for…” Jul 6, 00:41
crazycat on Search And Replace: “John Logue explains that in another part of his interview: And so when the police carry out a complex investigation…” Jul 6, 00:37
George Ferguson on Search And Replace: “I no longer believe in an Independent Scotland and Ross Greer has just told you why. We live in a…” Jul 5, 23:55
Angus on Search And Replace: “The fobbing off by the utterly politically corrupt Police Scotland and the Crown Office will continue for ever. How much…” Jul 5, 23:17
Stuart Swanston on Search And Replace: “The NEC of the SNP is the legal body of the Party. Members of the National Executive Council of the…” Jul 5, 22:47
Bilbo on Search And Replace: “Dan, you’ve hit the nail on the head with your last paragraph. Case in point the hysteria about the recent…” Jul 5, 22:42
robertkknight on Search And Replace: “Likely spoil my ballot again. I don’t vote for unionist parties, including the SNP.” Jul 5, 22:20
Bilbo on Search And Replace: “@ Main The same was said about Brexit, the same was said about Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister. What difference…” Jul 5, 21:39
Jay on Search And Replace: “Dan, whether you are ‘leftist’ or ‘rightist’ depends on who wants to insult you. Likely that some who use the…” Jul 5, 21:33
Rob on Search And Replace: “Actually I think the new investigation is just a smokescreen to divert attention from the 650k. Expect Salmond to be…” Jul 5, 21:10
Andrew Morton on Search And Replace: “7 years is the going rate for that offence so he got off lightly. But yeah, rape seems to be…” Jul 5, 21:05
AdamH on Search And Replace: “Lorna, the money-raising was NOT done on behalf of the SNP. Therefore they were/are not entitled to take ownership of…” Jul 5, 20:54
Mark Beggan on Search And Replace: “The Yes campaign now under investigation for £1.5 million smackaroonies. Another MI5 plot exposed. Those bastards at MI5 have their…” Jul 5, 20:42
Dan on Search And Replace: “Hmm, what to make of this… Talks of “growing up” to improve Scotland’s lot, and portrays this with a pic…” Jul 5, 20:41
Lorncal on Search And Replace: “On the face of it, there certainly seems to be no essential difference, except that embezzlement is usually clear-cut financial…” Jul 5, 20:20
Frank Gillougley on Search And Replace: “I can see no other reason for this, which is exactly as you have it on your twitter blurb, Rev.…” Jul 5, 20:16
Hatey McHateface on Search And Replace: “Yet in Wales, they see a Reform government at Westminster as being a sure fire boost for Welsh Independence. Maybe…” Jul 5, 19:30
Bilbo on Search And Replace: “Blind ‘them and us’ tribalism in the independence movement is the reason for the mess we are in today. Reform…” Jul 5, 19:19
agentx on Search And Replace: ““And in some ways this case was as simple as that because what we were able to prove after the…” Jul 5, 19:12
Wally Jumblatt on Search And Replace: “(painting windows on a ship and constructing a funnel before you’ve dropped the big kit in though the void) I…” Jul 5, 19:06
Mark Beggan on Search And Replace: “And you are voting for?” Jul 5, 18:30
Mark Beggan on Search And Replace: “I take it that’s a no then.” Jul 5, 18:29
twathater on Search And Replace: “THIS post just goes to highlight the DELIBERATE obfuscation and lies of Logue , does he really think that people…” Jul 5, 18:14
100%Yes on Search And Replace: “I fail to see why you believe Independence is dead!!!! I would agree if David Henry is correct, its more…” Jul 5, 18:13
AdamH on Search And Replace: “I don’t think Murrell cut a deal I think he was offered it “We’re thinking of forgetting about some of…” Jul 5, 18:08
robertkknight on Search And Replace: “A thread concerning dodgy financial dealings and someone suggests voting for Reform. LOL… I guess some people don’t do irony.” Jul 5, 18:07
TURABDIN on Search And Replace: “the sunday times unveils the extent of farascist corruption, on a par with that under the trump regime….Ukania’s future? not…” Jul 5, 18:07
twathater on Search And Replace: “I totally agreed with your words then you let yourself and me down with the last two words , I…” Jul 5, 18:00
Ian Smith on Search And Replace: “What I cannot understand is why Murrell cut a deal to get £60k knocked off the £460k, since it would…” Jul 5, 17:44
