Woman buys thing with own money 259
Posted on
March 24, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
A decent start 118
Posted on
March 24, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Respect to John MacKay of STV, who on last night’s Scotland Tonight asked Labour MSP James Kelly the question this site has called for about whether Labour would stand aside and let the Tories rule if the latter were the largest party after May’s election, but Labour had enough seats to win a confidence vote and form the government with backing from the SNP and/or other parties.
Kelly, unsurprisingly, flapped and blustered and totally evaded it. But then we doubt he has the authority to make the tea in Scottish Labour, let alone speak for the party on key policy issues. If the question isn’t put repeatedly by all of the media to more senior Labour figures until an answer is produced, we’ll be wanting to know why.
Well, you should know, we suppose 125
Posted on
March 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…having just spent the last three years in bed with them.
Zounds, the irony.
Under pressure 145
Posted on
March 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We have to give Jim Murphy credit – on this week’s Sunday Politics he started off with the subtle, misleading but technically-accurate version of Labour’s line about the “biggest party forming the government”, which involves making the true but irrelevant observation that in the past it’s usually been the case. (Mainly because UK elections almost always give the biggest party a comfortable majority.)
But it only took a couple of minutes of questioning for the Scottish branch manager to lose his cool and resort to the comprehensively debunked flat-out lie again.
The black armbams 136
Posted on
March 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scotland on Sunday on Labour’s latest Scottish election strategy:
We’re not making that up. Go and check for yourself. And when you’ve prised your jaw off the floor, acquaint yourself with the truth, as told by Jim Callaghan himself.
Heartless, clueless, reckless, voteless 272
Posted on
March 20, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because we know you love a conference gallery.
Here’s the Scottish Lib Dems in Aberdeen.
The troll press 178
Posted on
March 20, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Daily Record, still smarting from the humiliation of being forced to very quietly admit it told its readers a £20 billion lie about the Smith Commission late last year, has been in a demented overdrive trying to provoke Yes/SNP supporters this week.
It started on Tuesday with an echo of the paper’s infamous “Vow” cover, clearly aimed at winding up its detractors but which passed without much comment as social media users merely raised a brief weary eyebrow and got on with their day. But then the Record started turning up the volume.
Looks like we’ve slept in again 172
Posted on
March 19, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Sometimes the UK media is so soul-crushingly moronic, readers, that it’s hard to get out of bed in the morning. Nevertheless, we’re pretty sure we haven’t nodded off and woken up in 2017, so today’s papers must be even more idiotic than usual.
A close call 201
Posted on
March 18, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Daily Record, five days before the independence referendum:
The Times, earlier this month:
Phew! Thank goodness for that No vote, eh readers?
What’s your point, caller? 288
Posted on
March 17, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For those of you who missed it, me ringing in to the Kaye Adams show this morning.
Cross-vortex perspectives 105
Posted on
March 17, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Editorial in today’s Scottish Sun:
The Scottish Sun is around 80% the same newspaper as the English edition (with the bulk of the difference being accounted for by football coverage) so presumably the south-of-the-border version has a broadly similar view, right?
The old hand 195
Posted on
March 17, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If we’re honest, readers, we almost never bother with BBC Scotland’s televised political coverage any more. We suspect the viewing figures for Scotland 2015 are down to fingers-and-toes territory now, and if last night’s edition – which we gritted our teeth and watched after noting the incredulous response on social media – is anything to go by, the state broadcaster is now using it to try out work-experience kids.
But we can cut fresh-faced new boy David Henderson (who suffered the indignity of being billed as Sarah Smith) a bit of slack for being outmanoeuvred by an experienced operator like Jim Murphy, who at one point in the show was actually interrogating the presenter rather than the other way round.
Kirsty Wark, regular anchor on the Corporation’s current-affairs flagship Newsnight, on the other hand, has no such excuses whatsoever.
