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.
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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.
A man hears what he wants to hear 97
Posted on
June 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This quote:
Does not say this:
No matter how much we’re all desperate for a story.
Humza Yousaf’s Last Week 132
Posted on
June 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So this is pretty embarrassing.
The Scottish National Party’s primary and defining purpose is Scottish independence. Next weekend’s “special conference” will at least notionally determine its policy on that subject for years to come. On the face of it it’s the most important congregation of party members in the SNP’s history.
The Caird Hall can accommodate just 3% of the claimed membership. (And you’d expect at least half the seats to have been reserved in advance for the faithful payroll.) Members ought to be fighting like dogs for a ticket. And yet a week before the event the leader is having to send out pleading letters to try to scare up enough attendees that it won’t be a half-empty humiliation.
Developing a complex 122
Posted on
June 10, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Wings two days ago: “The SNP wants to do a devo-max deal with Labour”.
The SNP today: “We’re prepared to do a devo-max deal with Labour”.
The Next Government Of Scotland 115
Posted on
June 09, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Surrender when you’re winning 161
Posted on
June 08, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Let’s start with what we know.
The SNP tell us that independence support is currently at 53%.
They tell us that most Scots want a referendum within the next year:
And we know that it’s absolutely unequivocally possible for the SNP and Greens to trigger a Holyrood election which would serve as a de facto referendum not only within a year, but within weeks. Scots could entirely realistically go to the polls this August or September, or even on the date Nicola Sturgeon promised less than a year ago.
So why are the SNP choosing this of all moments to give up?
Far beyond the pale horizon 81
Posted on
June 07, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In fairness, on one level it’s really funny.
Assuming you’ve already resigned yourself to independence never happening, that is.
The Cod-father 141
Posted on
May 28, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s a bit disappointing to see an Italian-born man play into Mafia stereotypes.
“Nice indy movement you’ve got there. Be a shame if anything… happened to it.”
The Battered Can 121
Posted on
May 26, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When I was a boy at Balbardie Primary School in Bathgate in the mid-70s, football was banned in the playground. Of course we were all fitba-daft laddies, so we sought ways around the prohibition. Occasionally someone would bring in a tennis ball, but those were difficult to control in school shoes and also apt to fly over the wall of the outdoor toilet block if somebody caught one sweetly on the volley.
So most playtimes somebody would produce a tin of Pepsi or Irn-Bru or Cresta, chug the contents, stand the empty container on its end and stomp sharply on it, producing something more akin to an ice-hockey puck that would serve for our kickabout.
But even after being skelped and scudded around a concrete playground into stone walls for 20 minutes, that can was still in better shape at the end of our game than the one the SNP have been kicking down the road since 2016.
