Now You See It 150
Posted on
July 01, 2023 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
Fun with numbers 35
Posted on
June 30, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As a corollary to this piece from earlier today, here’s a nice simple picture.
Alert readers will already have spotted the problem with it.
Fun with words 61
Posted on
June 30, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is, strictly speaking, semantically, true:
It is, however, as the famous phrase goes, not the whole truth.
Unserious People 189
Posted on
June 29, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Tuesday’s front page headline in The National was roughly the political equivalent of introducing yourself to your new next-door neighbour by saying “Hi, nice to meet you, I’m Jimmy from No.22 and it definitely wasn’t me who killed your cat last night”.
Humza Yousaf’s great masterplan of an independence strategy is imploding faster than the OceanGate Titan, and scarcely any less disastrously. And unless you’re one of the colleagues, family or friends of the tragic victims on board the doomed vessel, it’s even more painful to watch.
The Burning House 503
Posted on
June 26, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This one goes out to all the “rebel” MSPs at the SNP desks in Holyrood.
Because it’s nearly time for you to choose whether you want to fight, or die meekly.
The Cassandra Crossing 114
Posted on
June 25, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
24 hours on, pretty much everyone seems to have come to the same conclusion (with the assistance of briefings from the FM himself) about Humza Yousaf’s “independence strategy” as the one Wings saw immediately yesterday, namely that he’s taken Nicola Sturgeon’s flawed version of a de-facto referendum and made it even less credible.
In as far as they’re talking about it at all, anyway.
The Final Burn 118
Posted on
June 24, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The word “packed” is working very hard here.
Because the video Riddoch tweeted tells a rather different story.
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.
