Stacking the odds 107
Posted on
March 25, 2017 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
The Liar 153
Posted on
March 25, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Normally the amateur blogger, unqualified would-be economist and unsuccessful dog-food salesman that BBC Scotland and the Daily Record employ on a regular basis to openly troll Yes voters restricts himself, when attacking this site, to crude abuse or smear and innuendo like the below, tweeted on Holocaust Memorial Day last year:
Last night, implausibly, he sank lower.
If it hits you in the eye 301
Posted on
March 24, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s a new hot buzz-phrase in the Yoonstream: “GERS deniers”.
It’s actually been around for quite a few months – coincidentally since this site started exposing the true nature of the figures – but has become a constant mantra recently, in particular since the intervention of an actual proper expert who doesn’t sell cat litter for a living, Professor Richard Murphy.
Ever since he set tongues and tails wagging by writing a series of hard-hitting articles for his widely-renowned Tax Research UK blog last week, rubbishing the quality of the data, Unionists have been in an increasingly shrill flap about it.
And it’s not hard to see why.
Kezia Dugdale Fact Check, Part 679 384
Posted on
March 22, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Sky News earlier this morning:
Our ears always prick up when Kezia says she’s counted something herself.
The highlights reel 160
Posted on
March 21, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Today the Scottish Parliament spent several hours heatedly debating a motion to call for a second Section 30 order to enable a new independence referendum (several more will follow tomorrow before the vote). We watched all of it so you didn’t have to, and are delighted to present you with a few clips that probably won’t make the news.
On such a momentous topic, this was the intervention that Scottish Labour list MSP Monica Lennon felt was the most pressing issue to raise, for example:
We’re very touched, obviously, and will add it to our file of other mentions in the chamber and elsewhere. But there were probably more important things to discuss.
Unreliable sources 235
Posted on
March 21, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It seems counter-intuitive – given Rupert Murdoch’s often-overstated (despite endless and fevered speculation, the Scottish Sun didn’t back a Yes vote) but still seemingly real support for Scottish independence – that Sky News should be seen as the most hostile of the nation’s broadcasters to the Yes movement.
Yet such it is.
Stitched up like kippers 261
Posted on
March 20, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Panelbase have released data tables for their recent Sunday Times poll. And wow.
That’s quite something.
Asking the wrong questions 479
Posted on
March 19, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s the Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, speaking to BBC News this morning and giving a striking illustration of the term “dancing on the head of a pin”.
Comically, his excuse for demanding another referendum on leaving the EU while opposing a second Scottish independence referendum is that his new EU vote would be a completely different question – he’d be asking voters if they wanted to accept the Brexit deal and exit from the EU (which one might reasonably summarise on the ballot paper as “Leave”), or to refuse to approve the deal and stay in the EU (or put another way, “Remain”).
Glad we cleared that up, then. But then it got weirder.
To keep links with the world 84
Posted on
March 19, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
No 9: Mark, until recently from London.
Come and join us 215
Posted on
March 18, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Our favourite bit is at 27m 52s.
