Going Nowhere 63
Posted on
June 24, 2023 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
Kiss With A Fist 56
Posted on
June 23, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve seen some hilarious demands for “unity” in the independence movement in the last couple of years, almost all of them from the most divisive figures ever to wave a wee plastic Saltire (Pete Wishart, Neil Mackay, Wee Ginger Dug etc etc).
But this effort from the SNP’s new airhead mascot takes the shortbread.
The queen is dead 131
Posted on
June 22, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Winnie Ewing, who has sadly passed away a few weeks short of her 94th birthday, was the second SNP politician I ever heard of.
My dad met her, and would speak of her with Billy Wolfe, the party leader who was also his employer at a forest machinery company in Bathgate (and our family friend), during her second term as an MP in the UK Parliament.
She now joins my dad and Billy as people who worked for the cause of independence but died before it came to fruition, after many wasted years under the leadership of Nicola Sturgeon.
Spoiler Alert 295
Posted on
June 20, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Still wondering what Humza Yousaf’s going to say to the SNP’s pretend “conference” on independence strategy this coming Saturday? Well, wonder no longer, because this morning he told Sky News.
In other words, he’s waving the white flag and praying for a miracle.
Yellow for timewasting 351
Posted on
June 18, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, no wonder they’re having trouble shifting tickets.
Because that’s all you’re getting for your tenner, SNP members.
Hostile takeover 73
Posted on
June 17, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A man hears what he wants to hear 97
Posted on
June 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This quote:
Does not say this:
No matter how much we’re all desperate for a story.
Humza Yousaf’s Last Week 132
Posted on
June 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So this is pretty embarrassing.
The Scottish National Party’s primary and defining purpose is Scottish independence. Next weekend’s “special conference” will at least notionally determine its policy on that subject for years to come. On the face of it it’s the most important congregation of party members in the SNP’s history.
The Caird Hall can accommodate just 3% of the claimed membership. (And you’d expect at least half the seats to have been reserved in advance for the faithful payroll.) Members ought to be fighting like dogs for a ticket. And yet a week before the event the leader is having to send out pleading letters to try to scare up enough attendees that it won’t be a half-empty humiliation.
Kirsty Blackman’s Genitals 424
Posted on
June 13, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Some of you still won’t have seen them, er, we mean “this”:
While it may have been the funniest – and Joanna Cherry silently spoke for every sane person in the nation as it went on – remarkably it wasn’t even the stupidest or most offensive part of her speech to yesterday’s Parliamentary debate in Westminster Hall about the definition of “sex” in the Equality Act.
The Queen Of All The Cretins 180
Posted on
June 12, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Nicola Sturgeon has not been charged with any crime. Yesterday she was arrested, questioned and released without charge pending further investigation. We do not even know which specific suspected crime or crimes she was questioned in connection with, so it is manifestly impossible to meaningfully speculate on her innocence or guilt (save of course for the fact that all are innocent in the eyes of the law until proven otherwise, something Sturgeon herself often appears to forget).
Nevertheless, in Scotland the Contempt Of Court Act 1981 applies from the moment a person is arrested, as the country’s most senior lawyer and its official prosecution service were both keen to remind people yesterday in the clearest possible terms, and it applies equally whether you’re asserting someone’s guilt or their innocence.
So you need to be a really extra-special class of boneheaded numbwit to do this:
The topical news quiz 96
Posted on
June 11, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Your first question, Ian Murray: who is the First Minister and leader of the SNP?
Ooh, sorry, zero points.
