Scotland’s Changing 191
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March 09, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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Zoomer Patrol 263
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March 09, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Yeah, that definitely seems fine 332
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March 09, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From Steve Bell in your liberal, Labour-supporting Guardian today:
Feel that social-democratic brotherly British love, readers.
Watching the wildlife 226
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March 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As promised earlier, here’s the full glory of Scottish Labour MP Ian Murray’s stellar performance on Sunday Politics Scotland today.
A question answered 152
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March 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Lovers of blood sports enjoyed a very special treat on this morning’s Sunday Politics Scotland, as Gordon Brewer got his teeth firmly around the throat of hapless Scottish Labour MP Ian Murray and shook him like a rag doll for ten toe-curling minutes.
We’ll have the entire 18-rated clip for you later, but Brewer was having so much fun tormenting Murray by repeatedly demanding an answer to the question of whether his party would rule out an electoral deal with the SNP that he didn’t notice when, at about the 15th time of asking, he actually got one.
Through the vortex 168
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March 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you picked up a copy of The Sun On Sunday in Scotland today, it’s possible you may have missed this article from the English edition, which hasn’t made it across the border due to print gremlins at Carlisle or something.
We feel sure that just months ago Scots were being begged to stay in the UK and exercise their “strong voice in the UK parliament”, but perhaps we’re mistaken.
A hero of Scottish Labour 229
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March 07, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s delightful Labour MP “Diddy” David Hamilton this morning:
His personal attack on the First Minister’s appearance went down well, not just with the crowd in the room at the Scottish Labour conference but also with the party’s sniggering juvenile boys’ club. They wouldn’t say their wives were fat, but…
Here, kitty kitty kitty 121
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March 07, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
To gaze into the abyss 287
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March 07, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The cuckoo in the nest 132
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March 06, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When we tweeted a link to this Morning Star story about Scottish Labour chief of staff John McTernan speaking for the right-wing think-tank Policy Exchange at a fringe meeting of the Conservative Party conference last September, several readers found it quite difficult to believe.
After all, this was a senior Scottish Labour figure telling delegates that “It’s a good thing [Margaret Thatcher] did what she did” to the UK economy, and that “There’s a far wider range of assets that are currently owned by the government which I would privatise”, among other not-terribly-socialist views. It seemed implausible.
Fortunately, we can now bring you the proof. It’s very much worth a watch.
We’re sure Scottish Labour’s few remaining voters have no cause for alarm, though. We’re almost positive that there’s no significance in the fact that McTernan was pretty much the first person Jim Murphy rushed to hire when he became leader, just a few weeks after McTernan had given the Tories advice on winning elections.
After all, just because you’re in charge of all of a party’s staff doesn’t mean that you get to exert any kind of influence over its policy [SUB PLEASE CHECK].
Cracking up 206
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March 06, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Jim Murphy’s practiced air of nonchalant bonhomie was coming apart at the seams all over today’s “Good Morning Scotland” (from 2h 10m). Pressed hard by presenter Bill Whiteford, the beleaguered Scottish Labour branch manager spluttered and blustered and interrupted constantly in a desperate attempt to stop Whiteford from even finishing any questions, never mind getting answers to them.
Murphy tried determinedly and repeatedly to punt the hopelessly-discredited line about the biggest party forming the government, on the sole basis that it had always been the case before, seemingly unaware that the election wasn’t being held in the past. He even tried to use the recent catastrophic Ashcroft polls to Labour’s advantage.
You can marvel at the entire nine-minute trainwreck by clicking the link below. But let’s just pull out that one argument and take a closer look at it.
