What happened next? 364
Posted on
June 11, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
The grievance hunters 103
Posted on
June 11, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve already noted that today is a confusing news day. But when we were listening to the radio this morning we thought we maybe hadn’t woken up properly.
(Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland, 11 June 2015)
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The segment concerned a report by the Tory-leaning think tank Reform Scotland, and saw both the organisation and Labour MSP Hugh Henry trying doggedly to find a bad spin on the news in the fact that crime in Scotland is at a 40-year low. So desperate were they to do so that they ended up denying the existence of arithmetic.
The grinding wheels of justice 80
Posted on
June 10, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An update for those interested, via an alert cartoonist:
From: Garreth.Lodge
To: Christopher Cairns
Subject: RE: Ian Smart
Date: 9 June 2015 14:25:33 BST
Dear Christopher,
Thank you for your e-mail to Kezia with regards to her exchange with the First Minister in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 23rd April 2015.
Kezia can confirm that the person mentioned in the exchange has had their membership of the Labour Party put under administrative suspension and an investigation is currently being conducted by the General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party.
If you have specific questions on the investigation you will need to direct them to the Scottish Labour Party, not Kezia’s Parliamentary office.
If there is anything other issues Kezia can help with as your MSP, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Kind Regards
Garreth
The Unseen Sturgeon 173
Posted on
June 09, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve already brought you the First Minister’s appearance on last night’s The Daily Show in the US, but in addition to the seven minutes that were shown on TV there were a further seven minutes of interview which didn’t go out on air, but were shown on the Comedy Central website, region-blocked so only US residents could see them.
When the FM goes abroad to represent Scotland in the outside world, though, we think it’s only fair that Scots get to see what she’s saying and doing on their behalf, so we didn’t let such trifling obstacles get in our way.
The Sturgeon Show 127
Posted on
June 09, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If we could turn back time 286
Posted on
June 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Daily Record’s conscience is evidently still bothering it.
Having sold Scotland a pup back in September, the paper has spent much of the time since then frantically trying to present itself as the doughty and fearless champion of home rule. But it’s hard to see what it’s getting itself so worked up about.
The impossible fantasy 206
Posted on
June 07, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The likely next Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale on today’s Sunday Politics:
We’ll try to keep this brief, because we want to go to the seaside.
The scum of the Earth 271
Posted on
June 06, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Daily Mail, having unaccountably failed to notice the slew of Unionists who tried to blame the SNP for Charles Kennedy’s death before the body was cold on Tuesday, suddenly remembered to look at its Twitter timeline again today.
There, it conveniently found that vile cybernat hate mobs had hounded the former Lib Dem leader into an early grave (rather than the alcoholism-induced haemorrhage that the post-mortem concluded was responsible).
We suppose they’d know all about that sort of thing, right enough.
The awful truth 178
Posted on
May 31, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is Robert Hutton – UK political correspondent for Bloomberg News and author of the book “Would They Lie To You?” – and former Labour spin doctor Damien McBride on Radio 4 this morning, discussing the fate of Alistair Carmichael.
(The Week In Westminster, BBC Radio 4, 30 May 2015)
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That’s going to be an awkward lunch.
The brain of Britain 178
Posted on
May 31, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Michelle Mone, the titular head of a loss-making underwear company mostly owned by a shady Sri Lankan business group, who’s spent much of the last eight years trying to blackmail Scots by threatening to punish them with hundreds of job losses if they don’t vote the way she tells them to, has a 1400-word whine/house advert in the MoS today about how beastly cybernats have forced her to finally move to England.
Who wants to be the one to break it to her that they have Twitter in England too?
