The stories that are true 454
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March 16, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
David Davis speaking in Parliament this evening.
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
How not to do it 70
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March 16, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Dunlop Review into the Scottish Government’s conduct of an investigation of false harassment allegations against Alex Salmond was published today. It is an extremely damning report, which basically boils down to “You got absolutely everything possible wrong, never do anything that way again, you incompetent idiots”.
You can check out the whole 78-page document here, but we’ve included its 10 key recommendations as to how such investigations should be carried out in future, along with a note of whether these recommendations were followed in the Salmond case.
If you don’t want to know 122
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March 16, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…simply don’t ask the question.
And the problem will magically go away.
Not-So-New Dawn Fades 65
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March 16, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome you back once again to the only event in politics that’s more frequent than a Scottish Labour leadership election.
Seems to come round sooner every year, doesn’t it?
This is how dumb they think you are 183
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March 15, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Distinctions and differences 249
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March 15, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The wheels of the bus 227
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March 14, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…appear to be about to roll over Leslie Evans.
Which in itself raises some extremely serious questions about the judgement of the First Minister who extended Evans’ contract by two years in January 2020, long after she’d known about the series of disastrous and costly blunders Evans had made in the Salmond investigation.
But that’s not even the real story.
On who to believe 138
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March 14, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Nine days ago Wings told you this:
And you’ll never guess what’s happened.
To the editor of The National 112
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March 14, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
I’m bemused that The National is now dragging up a nine-day old story for no apparent reason other than to assist the SNP in its determined recent attempts to smear my site.
But I’m extremely disappointed that in doing so it’s chosen to ignore a document I sent to your previous reporter, Emer O’Toole, more than a week ago, proving the accuracy of my leak.
A matter of timing 409
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March 13, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Writing about the Hate Crime Bill in the Herald today, Kevin McKenna summarises in a sentence a point this website has been making for many months.
Because the real question about the SNP’s sudden demented obsession with focusing the public’s attention on its most unpopular policies right before supposedly the most important election in its history isn’t “Why?”
It’s “Why now?”
The own goal 132
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March 12, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Last week we warned you to beware of poll questions containing the formulation “Does [X] make you more or less likely to vote in a certain way?”, and this evening Survation have provided us with an example of why.
According to those numbers, the conflict between Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon has caused a staggering 47% of Scots to change their likelihood of voting Yes in an independence referendum. And the bulk of those – 37% – say it’s made them MUCH more or MUCH less likely to vote Yes.
Those numbers break by more than 2 to 1 (23% to 11%) in favour of “much less likely”, which is a margin of change (12 points) bigger than almost any Yes majority that’s ever been recorded in a poll.
In other words, if the poll is to be believed, Nicola Sturgeon’s attempt to neutralise Alex Salmond as a threat to her personal political power has almost definitely turned a Yes vote into a No vote as people have started paying attention to it.
