Free bird seed 151
Posted on
February 13, 2016 by
Chris Cairns
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Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
A bold interpretation 333
Posted on
February 11, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s nothing unusual about reading something in the Scottish media that makes your eyes widen. But a piece we saw in the Courier earlier today stretched ours out to Clockwork Orange-like proportions.
Now that’s a pretty intriguing opening (as the bishop said to the actress). At first we took it to mean that an independent Scotland could effectively take over Britain’s EU membership in the event of a Leave vote, ending any debate about whether and when it would be admitted on its own.
But then the punchline arrived.
Check against delivery 47
Posted on
February 11, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The title of this article is a phrase that people use when publishing a transcript of someone’s intended speech, to signify that this is what they INTENDED to say, but that the reader should verify it with the actual speech to check whether they did, because sometimes there are last-minute changes or the person simply forgets bits.
The above is Kezia Dugdale’s scripted speech to the Scottish Labour conference in October 2015, just 94 days before calling for an income tax increase for “hundreds of thousands of working Scots”.
Sometimes leaving stuff out by accident looks like the smart move.
Running to stand still 528
Posted on
February 08, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A revealing moment from a meeting of the UK parliament’s Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee last Tuesday, featuring the former Secretary of State for Scotland, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean.
Who knew, eh?
Why beggars will be losers 325
Posted on
February 06, 2016 by
Eric Joyce
Scottish Labour’s announcement that it wants to increase tax for everyone earning over £20k (and therefore anyone on under that who fancies making a little bit more, or might do a wee bit of extra overtime), reflects its acceptance both that the far left is in charge now and that this year’s Holyrood race is virtually over already.
SNP party folk will “take nothing for granted”, of course, and some aficionados might find it fun to see which candidates slink into list seats after they’ve lost the votes which count, but I’m really much more interested in what will come after that.
The cost of everything 70
Posted on
February 06, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From an excellent letter in today’s Herald by Chris McLaughlin of Giffnock:
The only fault in Chris’ logic is that he’s a bit too generous to Labour.
Clown shoes 75
Posted on
February 06, 2016 by
Chris Cairns
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Meet the new blood 142
Posted on
February 05, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
STV have leaked the results of Scottish Labour’s list-candidate rankings. Alert readers will recall that Kezia Dugdale promised that her leadership would see an influx of “new talent and fresh faces” to the beleaguered branch office’s ranks.
So let’s see how that panned out.
The Big Split 472
Posted on
February 03, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From a Daily Record vox pop today on Scottish Labour’s tax plan.
Seems there are some things nearly everyone agrees on.
Help, we need somebody 77
Posted on
February 02, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s been a fair few months since we last documented the Daily Record’s increasingly panicky attempts to save its own hide over its infamous eve-of-referendum “Vow”.
In its growing desperation, the paper bizarrely turns today to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, demanding that SHE should be the one to fulfil a promise that the Record made specifically in order to thwart Sturgeon’s lifelong goal of independence.
A Penny For Labour 109
Posted on
February 02, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A kind of goldrush 202
Posted on
February 01, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An alert reader directed us to an article on finance site Bloomberg today:
It’s interesting to see a business and bankers’ perspective on something that we’ve already pointed out a number of times on Wings, namely that the lower oil price has at least as many upsides as downsides.
