Ship of fools 179
Posted on
October 06, 2018 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘uk politics’
One tired eyebrow 536
Posted on
October 01, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We honestly don’t think they even see it, folks.
We truly don’t.
Where’s Richey? 224
Posted on
September 24, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been watching the Labour Party annual conference today, at which North British Branch Office manager Richard Leonard apparently gave a speech.
Unfortunately the BBC News coverage wasn’t very helpful with its captioning, so we have no idea which of the people below is him. Can anyone help?
Lord Of The Fruit Flies 340
Posted on
September 23, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Everybody but you 256
Posted on
September 17, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s a fascinating piece in the Guardian this morning.
It reveals that in attempting to solve the unsolvable Irish border problem, the EU’s Brexit negotiators are – at the UK’s behest – trying to come up with a plan which would preclude its use for Scotland in the event of independence.
That’s an entirely legitimate course of action. Having lacked the courage to establish itself as a nation, Scotland shouldn’t expect to be treated as one by either the EU or the UK (which has demonstrated its contempt by flatly refusing Scotland any voice in negotiations). The EU is quite properly, and admirably stoutly, defending the interests of its member state, Ireland. Would that Scotland had such clout.
But it’s worth taking a second to ponder what it all means.
The scissored isles 137
Posted on
September 02, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
New polling out tonight from British Polling Council members Deltapoll.
Excluding don’t-knows, both of those sets of figures come out at 52-48 margins: for Yes if Brexit goes ahead, for No if it doesn’t. If Brexit isn’t mentioned in the question at all, the results are 49% Yes 51% No.
Excluding don’t knows, the figures for Northern Ireland are 57-43 in favour of a united Ireland in the event of Brexit, and 60-40 against if Brexit is averted.
Fair bit at stake in the next few months, then.
Counting down the minutes 218
Posted on
August 21, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Whenever Scottish Labour rouse themselve to try to rally their handful of remaining supporters by whipping up some fake moral outrage – on this occasion about the Scottish Government giving a grant to an arms manufacturer (helped as always by an obedient Scottish press, and on this occasion by a fairly extraordinary on-air meltdown from Good Morning Scotland interviewer Gillian Marles) – we tend to just sigh and set the stopwatch going to see how long it’ll take to backfire in a horribly messy explosion.
But this one was especially splattery.
The Bloody Wizards 249
Posted on
August 19, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We couldn’t help noticing one particular Rory Bremner tweet last night.
And we thought, “Well, WE know someone who predicted those things.”
