This is where you stand 192
Posted on
July 24, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you vote Scottish Labour:
And if you vote Scottish Conservative:
Always good to know.
Archive for the ‘uk politics’
When circumstances change 190
Posted on
July 23, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s probably overdue that we start collecting these together. So here’s Sir John Major on the Andrew Marr show yesterday, explaining why a “once in a lifetime” referendum should in fact be held again because its outcome was determined by something that turned out to be untrue.
Which is, of course, totally different to Scotland being told to vote No in 2014 in order to stay in the European Union, because [REASONS TO FOLLOW AT SOME POINT]
Stella Wants Her Groove Back 195
Posted on
July 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Labour MP Stella Creasy, explaining to Sarah Smith on today’s Sunday Politics why she backs a so-called “People’s Vote” on Brexit because voters should have the right to change their mind about a referendum if circumstances change.
Except, as always, for viewers in Scotland.
The People’s Mess 305
Posted on
July 18, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Oh God. Would you look at the absolute state of this, readers?
Let’s make like everybody’s mental health and break that down.
And then there were fewer 297
Posted on
July 09, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In the light of David Davis’ resignation last night and the continuing shambolic chaos that is UK politics, it seemed a pertinent time for these findings from our latest poll.
Readers probably won’t be too shocked that it’s Scotland Vs The Tories again.
Folding your aces 270
Posted on
July 08, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers may recall that a few weeks ago we revealed how an independent Scotland could reduce its budget deficit by billions of pounds a year – by renting out the Faslane naval base to the rest of the UK to keep their nuclear weapons in.
Voters in England, we learned, were more than happy to pay Scotland £5bn annually – and perhaps even more – for a Trident submarine park during the decades that it would take to build a replacement base south of the border.
Of course, that plan is only any good if the people of Scotland would accept it too.
The divided kingdom 455
Posted on
July 04, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So this is an interesting one. The UK government currently finds itself in an appalling mess over the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with Ireland, due to the inconvenient fact of a small part of Ireland being in the UK, and has no idea what to do about it.
The closest thing Westminster has to a plan – and it has to be said that it’s not VERY close to a plan – is the so-called “backstop”, which isn’t a backstop at all and merely kicks everything down the road a couple of years, and which the EU has already said is a non-starter.
The fallback on the backstop, as announced last December, is “regulatory alignment” on the island of Ireland, which would effectively mean Northern Ireland staying in the EU and a border coming into existence in the Irish Sea (or to be more geographically accurate, the North Channel).
This would be, um, bitterly opposed by the DUP, on whom Theresa May’s government notionally depends, but given the absolute trainwreck of Labour’s position on Brexit it’s not at all clear that the DUP’s opposition would be enough to scupper any vote, so it could happen anyway, opening a simply massive can of worms.
That’s about the shortest rendition of the situation we can manage. But of course, in reality it’s much more complicated than that.
If you don’t want to know the TRUTH 16
Posted on
June 27, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…look away now.
Whose mayhem is it anyway? 402
Posted on
June 25, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Leaflets being given out by Labour today in Scotland and England respectively:
But for some reason there don’t seem to be any going around in Labour-run Wales.
A funny kind of Unionism 274
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June 20, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In all the excitement of the torching of the devolution settlement, we forgot to mention a curious piece of data from our recent poll of English voters.
Of all the people south of the border who would gladly throw Scotland and Northern Ireland under the bus (and more to the point, out of the UK) in order to ensure England left the EU, by far the most willing were the voters of the only UK party which expressly identifies itself as standing FOR the Union – the Conservative And Unionist Party.
