When it’s grim being right 272
Posted on
February 22, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘scum’
What lives under rocks 95
Posted on
January 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When someone sent us a collection of tweets in the immediate aftermath of the Clutha tragedy late last year, we decided not to use them. It wasn’t for any great moral reason – we’ve previously highlighted despicable No-camp scumbags making political capital out of the deaths of innocent people – but we were just too sickened and sad (as most Scots were) to waste a moment’s thought on such human dregs.
As the Daily Mail ploughs on with its crusade against “vile cybernats”, though, it seemed worth pointing out for the record just what sort of a place the internet really is, and how pathetic its catalogue of mild swearwords and distaste is in that context.
Stop reading now if you’re easily upset.
Fear of Godwin 70
Posted on
January 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Very many years ago, in a previous life, we wrote a short article about the widely misunderstood and endlessly-misapplied principle of “Godwin’s Law”. Regularly cited by idiots who claim that mentioning Hitler or the Nazis in an argument means you automatically lose, it actually says no such thing, and such usage is in fact a wildly irresponsible act consigning the most important lessons of history to the dustbin.
The dangers of arbitratily excluding the Third Reich from mankind’s collective memory in order to be a smartarse on the internet have been illustrated several times by the current UK government as it seeks for ideological reasons to portray whole swathes of British society as subhuman underclasses, but perhaps the most startlingly overt demonstration to date appeared in yesterday’s Independent.
Return Of The Abstainers 60
Posted on
October 23, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The coalition government’s horrific new immigration bill passed its first hurdle in the House Of Commons last night by 303 votes to 18.
The administration that brought us vans touring cities telling foreigners to leave or be arrested, gangs of armed officers sweeping tube stations for any dark-skinned undesirables, British citizens being harassed by text message and incomers to Scotland met with UK Border Agency posters urging them to go home intends to make life even more wretched and intolerable for vulnerable refugees and people who want to come here and contribute to our economy and culture.
And Labour? Labour bravely abstained from the vote.
Let’s take the morning off 116
Posted on
October 15, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because frankly we could write 10,000 words and not say as much about the state of the United Kingdom in 2013 – and its future – as these two pictures do.
New coalition welfare policy unveiled 84
Posted on
September 12, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We wish we were joking. But we’re not.
Take your pick 74
Posted on
August 01, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re just going to leave these here, okay?
The pride of Britain 149
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July 31, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s very rare, viewers, that we get so angry in the course of writing a post that we have to stop.
But when we ran a picture last night of Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander MP, opening a foodbank with a cretinous smile on his face as if being a member of the government of a modern industrial nation in need of foodbanks was something to be happy about, a reader suggested making a gallery of similar images.
This is as many as we could bear.
Scottish and British 127
Posted on
July 25, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Looks like someone had this problem at the online flag shop.
Remind us again why it’s “cybernats” we’re meant to be ashamed of.
Dog-whistle causes dog bite 41
Posted on
May 14, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Guardian today reports the incredibly depressing news that “Labour voters [are] increasingly turning against the poor”, with growing numbers of the party’s supporters now blaming the victims of recession and austerity for their own plight.
Julia Unwin, chief executive of the anti-poverty Joseph Rowntree Foundation, is quoted in the piece saying “The stark findings of this report highlight the increasingly tough stance people are taking against people in poverty. We appear to be tough on those experiencing poverty, but not tough on its causes.”
How can such a horrific, callous scenario, with the supposed party of the downtrodden and voiceless abandoning those who need the most support, ever have come to pass?
As night follows day 238
Posted on
May 08, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As we predicted last week, the BNP is now encouraging its members to join UKIP. The image below is taken from a Nick Griffin article on the former’s website. We’ve put it up as a screenshot in order to avoid linking to the site, but if you really want to find the entire piece you can Google for any of the phrases in the extract below.
(We do love the description of Farage as an “internationalist”, though. That’ll put him in good company with all the Labour sorts who insist we need to have Tory governments we don’t vote for in order to show “solidarity” with the rest of the UK, which does.)
One happy family 86
Posted on
April 06, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Telegraph deserves some credit today. It runs a heartbreaking story about the reality of life on benefits, of the sort both the Conservative and Labour parties want to be “tough” on. It’s a piece of gripping, truthful and hard-hitting journalism, highly and properly critical of the party the paper steadfastly supports. Hats off to the author.
Then you read the comments.
