Clearing the bar 118
Posted on
April 15, 2023 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
Progress to nowhere 160
Posted on
April 14, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers may be familiar with the market research and polling company Progress Scotland. Readers of The National certainly will be, as the semi-newspaper has run over 120 stories about it, most of them around the company’s creation in early 2019.
The company was formed by Angus Robertson, at the time an unemployed former SNP MP after he lost his Moray seat in the 2017 election, and its stated goal was to persuade those not yet fully decided.
When you’re already gone 308
Posted on
April 12, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So it turned out there was very little new information in this story.
But the tiny bit there was raises an extremely disproportionate number of issues.
Also Humza Yousaf 89
Posted on
April 12, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
7 April 2023: “Your priorities will be my priorities.”
1 April 2023: “Here are our priorities.”
Now for the surprise!
Standing on quicksand 143
Posted on
April 11, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So let’s just recap where we are with this.
Because it really doesn’t look very good.
From the mouths of idiots 113
Posted on
April 11, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Readers with any modest working knowledge of Scottish politics in recent years would naturally assume at first sight that the illiterate, corrupt, self-serving, gravy-hoovering drama student with whom the SNP hilariously replaced experienced KC Joanna Cherry as shadow justice secretary simply couldn’t spell “final straight”, a term meaning the easy last stretch of a horse race where there are no jumps or turns.
(We are, after all, talking here about someone who can’t spell her own name.)
But they might be wrong.
The Party’s Over 399
Posted on
April 09, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On a day like today, all an honest person can really do with the Scottish National Party is make like Pontius Pilate and wash their hands of it.
Because there ain’t no resurrection from this.
Stranger Things 364
Posted on
April 05, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, what an odd day that’s been.
Because for a start, if you’re the one person in Scotland who believes the above, please drop us a line. We’d love to have a chat with you.
Lipstick On Your Collar 338
Posted on
April 05, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Until a few weeks ago Calum Steele was the chief of the Scottish Police Federation, so as due-credits go we particularly appreciate this one.
So let’s remind ourselves of a few things.
Two separate facts 114
Posted on
April 05, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Presented without comment.
And a bonus one, from two years and one day ago:
At the edge of the deep blue sea 76
Posted on
April 04, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So a week and a bit after the deadline, this arrived.
And it’s not quite what you were told before.
