Fantasy Island 202
Posted on
March 21, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
The Final Insult 183
Posted on
March 20, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
According to SNP President and acting CEO Mike Russell, SNP members are too thick to understand the concept of changing their vote, and integrity is “disruptive”.
We’re not very clear on why a revote would be susceptible to “hacking” in any way that the original vote isn’t, but we’re sure there’s a great explanation.
The Casting Vote 150
Posted on
March 20, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There can surely be no credible disputing that the SNP leadership election – and therefore that of Scotland’s next First Minister – is, to put it very mildly, under a cloud.
The list of let’s call them “irregularities” is almost endless. The artificial truncation of the contest, against the SNP constitution; the packing of the hustings with Humza Yousaf supporters; candidates being denied any knowledge about the size of the membership until voting was under way, and then the party’s press chief and CEO both resigning over lying about it; the apparent existence of 6000 more ballot papers than the party has members; one of the Scottish Government’s most senior officers being improperly seconded to the Yousaf campaign (and then also resigning as a result); numerous documented examples of non-members being given votes while fully-paid-up members weren’t; we could, frankly, go on and on.
As things stand, whoever wins will be forever tainted by the process – easy meat for the Unionist opposition in the Holyrood chamber and the media and a potential legal challenge could cause untold further damage to the party.
With six days still left for voting, the case for a reballot – an administratively fairly trivial task in an election being conducted almost entirely online – is now unanswerable, and needn’t even involve a delay.
Only one person stands in the way.
Cleaning the stables 114
Posted on
March 19, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So we were a couple of days early on this one.
In fairness to the Scottish press, it’s had a lot of stuff to fit in recently.
Astronomical numbers of boots 131
Posted on
March 19, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The SNP having a fondness for lying about their membership wouldn’t have come as quite such a shock to the Scottish press if they paid a little more attention to this website. Because we were pointing it out two and a half years ago.
It was in October 2020 that we told you how the SNP’s 2019 accounts revealed the party’s true membership figures weren’t the claimed 126,000 but more like 87,000.
Quiet Times For Scotland 56
Posted on
March 19, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
You might think that Scottish political journalists would all be in a shark-like frenzy of excitement at the events of the last few days. But not over on The Guardian.
Apparently it’s all a bit too much for the delicate wee flowers.
If you find that you just can’t trust them 266
Posted on
March 18, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve just been leaked this footage, apparently taken by an alert traveller, of Nicola Sturgeon at Edinburgh Airport, reacting badly to receiving news that Peter Murrell has been “unavoidably detained” and won’t be making their rendezvous to Rio.
So what now, readers? What now?
The Patsies 123
Posted on
March 18, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The mainstream Scottish political media might not have many professional standards, but there’s one it’s still pretty diligent about upholding.
And that’s that if a political party’s press office starts really taking liberties and making them look like fools, all bets (and gloves) are off.
The decline and fall 234
Posted on
March 17, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…of the SNP has been in the post for quite some time.
Because no party can prosper for long when it’s stuffed full of complete dum-dums.
The truth will come out 230
Posted on
March 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
How it started, just one month ago:
And how it’s going:
But it’s quite a lot worse than it looks.
Rogue Trooper 129
Posted on
March 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Hats off to the SNP. Every time we think that the party’s leadership election can’t get any more absurdly farcical, they pull something extra-mad out of the bag.
After this happened yesterday, it suddenly become “known” across the Scottish media that the SNP NEC was going to hold an extraordinary meeting in order to authorise the release of the membership figures after all three candidates demanded them.
Some of the country’s most senior hacks, including BBC Scotland’s Political Editor and the editor of the Daily Record, sombrely informed their readers of the development.
Only trouble was, nobody had told the SNP NEC.
