The pitch 530
Posted on
June 08, 2017 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
Not saying No 250
Posted on
June 07, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There was a minor kerfuffle on the STV leaders debate tonight.
The revelation that Kezia Dugdale may once have changed her mind about a second referendum on independence won’t have come as a particularly great shock to Wings readers, who just a week ago read a detailed account of the party’s countless U-turns and contradictions on the issue.
And what was notable was that Dugdale didn’t deny it. To anyone’s face, at least.
The Davidson Boys 157
Posted on
June 06, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Readers, we’d like you to meet Steven MacGregor. He’s the chap on the right of this pic, taken last Monday while campaigning for the Tories in Ochil & South Perthshire with party leader Ruth Davidson, just a foot or so away from him.
He likes the England rugby and football teams, Jeremy Clarkson, AC/DC, the British Natural Bodybuilding Federation, and Oliver Mundell. He seems a lovely chap.
Where the money is 77
Posted on
June 06, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Disclaimer first: as we always say in situations like this, BOOKMAKERS’ ODDS ARE NOT PREDICTIONS. They’re based in significant part on the level of wagers placed, which means that you could affect the odds simply by making a large bet, which of course wouldn’t actually change the likelihood of a particular candidate winning.
So with that proviso, we present the following information purely for interest.
This is a real thing 399
Posted on
June 05, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…which we felt it important to preserve for posterity lest anything happen to it. We’d charitably blame it all on the Telegraph, who made it, were it not for the fact that the Scottish Conservatives have posted it on their own Facebook page.
It’d be awfully embarrassing if they had a poorer-than-expected election result, eh?
The voice of sanity 199
Posted on
June 04, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Hilary and Carey, South Lanark.
Just a day and a bit left to help get more videos like this made. Do if you can.
The personality crisis 453
Posted on
June 01, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re being told that this Tory leaflet, where Stephanie Smith is described as “Ruth Davidson’s candidate” for Edinburgh South, is standard across the whole country.
Which is unfortunate timing.
There is nothing you can do 294
Posted on
May 31, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…that will satisfy the Unionist parties. Last night Ruth Davidson told STV viewers that even getting more than 50% of the vote in a general election wouldn’t give the SNP a mandate to pursue their manifesto policies.
She was echoing the words of Kezia Dugdale just over a year ago:
So that’s clear. Davidson has reversed her previous view. There is now no peaceful democratic avenue by which the people of Scotland could express the wish for a second referendum which the two main Unionist parties would accept. They have EXPLICITLY said, in full public view, that they would reject any democratic mandate.
And that’s frightening.
We’ve thought of a way 130
Posted on
May 30, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
“It couldn’t be clearer than that” was Kezia Dugdale’s assertion tonight on the subject of whether a Labour UK government would block a second independence referendum, during her “Ask The Leader” interview with the BBC’s Glenn Campbell.
She’d insisted explicitly several times that a Jeremy Corbyn administration WOULD block a new indyref, even after being shown a video clip of Corbyn from earlier in the day saying he wouldn’t, and she repeatedly urged readers not to listen to the party’s leader and to instead go and look at the Labour manifesto.
So we did.
Scottish Labour indyref clarity grows 90
Posted on
May 30, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Today’s Daily Record has a swipe at Jeremy Corbyn for, well, let’s call them “mixed messages” over a second independence referendum. It suggests his Scottish branch manager Kezia Dugdale would have “her head in her hands” over his latest comments, which is a bit rich considering Dugdale’s own history on the subject.
And since her headline boast when she took over as leader of the North British office was that people would know exactly what Labour stood for (and indeed she spent all of the weekend’s keynote Sunday Politics interview listing all the things she’d been very very clear about), we thought we’d have a recap and see how that was going.
Once in a lifetime 205
Posted on
May 28, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Tremendous news for the rest of Scotland’s football clubs as Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers promises never to win the treble unbeaten again, even if his side score more goals than the other team in all their matches.
That’s how it works, right?
The right way to go for Scotland 91
Posted on
May 27, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
No.13: James, Aberdeenshire.
