Not too many surprises here. (Except, perhaps, the 18% of respondents who claimed to be football fans yet also said they had no interest in the World Cup.)
Excluding the disinterested the numbers were:
England 24% England’s opponents 38% Others 40%
And for people actually born in Scotland the figures came out at
England 20% England’s opponents 41% Others 39%
And that’s pretty much the natural order of things. If you’re a “Rangers” fan and you cheer for Celtic when they play (let’s not say “compete”) in the Champions League, or a Celtic fan who backed “Rangers” in the Petrofac Training Cup, you’re the weirdo.
We were having an idle browse on Google Play Books this morning for some bargain holiday reading when we happened upon a startling new cover for Chris Mullin’s 1982 classic A Very British Coup.
We found ourselves thinking “rise to what, exactly?”
And as it happened, we had some new Panelbase polling data on that.
Now, we’re not sure “you’ve had the government you’ve voted for about half the time in a two-horse race” would be all that great a selling point in the first place, but shall we see if it’s actually true, readers?
We wouldn’t say that the Scottish Daily Mail was obsessed or anything, but this is just today’s hysterical coverage of possible changes to taxation in Scotland which haven’t even been PROPOSED yet, let alone actually passed into law.
The efforts by the Scottish Tories to pull off some frankly ambitious shenanigans over today’s Budget continued overnight in increasingly bizarre fashion.
As with the Poppy Scotland funding, the party appears to be quite openly punting the line “We knew all along that this was possible and the right thing to do, but we deliberately punished Scotland for not electing enough Tory MPs”, in what can only be reasonably interpreted as an attempt at blackmailing future electorates.
The Scottish media, meanwhile, is doing its best to sell the issue as “a plague on both their houses”, holding the Scottish Government and UK government equally culpable for the mess. So let’s see what we know.
We’ll be honest, readers – if this doesn’t make you want to leave the UK all by itself, it may be that there’s nothing that ever will and we should just give up.
(Alternative titles considered for this piece included Live And Please Let Die, Doctor Oh God No, The Barely-Living Daylights and Quantum Of Bollocks.)
Yesterday’s Daily Record (which would increasingly be an accurate three-word name for the paper) ran an innocuous piece of page-filler fluff rubbish, and for once we’re not talking about a David Torrance column.
It featured the “psychic” predictions of a man who, the Record told us – no fewer than FIVE times in the opening few lines – previously predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, and who had a track record of “incredible accuracy”.
sam on The End Of Law: “Aidan is projecting again. He insists, without evidence, that Dr Cockbain is engaging in sophistry- plausible but fallacious argument. Below…” Jun 22, 15:13
Mark Beggan on The End Of Law: “All we need now is Mrs Starmer to divorce the sausage.” Jun 22, 14:55
Mark Beggan on The End Of Law: “The Order of the Knights Templar played No role in the battle of Culloden.” Jun 22, 14:35
Lorncal on The End Of Law: “It is not a foreign institution, Onlooker, so long as we are part of the UK, then, one supposes, we…” Jun 22, 14:31
Lorncal on The End Of Law: “Jay, while I agree with much of what you say, I also agree with H McH and I cannot read…” Jun 22, 14:16
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “Posh toff titled scum. Bet they all believed Bronze Age blethers too. These boys would have ridden their horses over…” Jun 22, 14:15
Mark Beggan on The End Of Law: “Andy for King! Twenty five thousand votes can get you a country. No plan! No Money! What could possibly go…” Jun 22, 14:13
Mark Beggan on The End Of Law: “Even less acknowledged is the vital part the The Order of the Knights Templar played in tipping the balance of…” Jun 22, 13:57
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “Why shouldn’t they be, Wally W? The likes of you are republican socialists. What’s your latest pig-ignorant wheeze? Claim hereditary…” Jun 22, 13:52
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “Is it true he intends to be known as Prime Minister Andy Burn? Seemingly he’s been advised the “ham” bit…” Jun 22, 13:46
James Barr Gardner on The End Of Law: “O/T Wargame Sky Tv WTF !!!!!!!” Jun 22, 13:43
Captain Caveman on The End Of Law: ““I do not trust people who, in the face of what is probably the worst cover up scandal in British…” Jun 22, 13:33
Aidan on The End Of Law: “The Quilliam Foundation report doesn’t pretend to be a complete analysis of all sexual offence data, and it is very…” Jun 22, 13:15
Captain Caveman on A Fishy Tale: “It’s a question of credibility and common sense. To the sensible, unindoctrinated (or “far right” as they’re now known), it…” Jun 22, 13:14
James on The End Of Law: “‘Cheers’, YL! As an aside The “Royal Four Towns” of Lochmaben are four historic villages located in Dumfries and Galloway:…” Jun 22, 13:09
Mark Beggan on The End Of Law: ““This Starmer/Burnham business, it’s like shi**ing your pants and changing your shirt.”” Jun 22, 12:43
Young Lochinvar on The End Of Law: “Happy anniversary tomorrow and Wednesday of the battle of Bannockburn 1314. One of the few not airbrushed out by the…” Jun 22, 12:33
Mark Beggan on The End Of Law: “When’s the General election?” Jun 22, 12:28
Young Lochinvar on The End Of Law: “I see the producers of forthcoming must-miss tv show wargame featuring washed up politicians of all shades have been just…” Jun 22, 12:23
robertkknight on The End Of Law: “The Labour Party – fluffing the pillows…having shat the bed.” Jun 22, 12:12
sam on The End Of Law: “You keep trying to put wwords in my mouth. My reference to “unsubstantiated garbage” was to the inadequacy of the…” Jun 22, 12:04
Spartan 117 on The End Of Law: “It’s the poisonous politics and dogma that are the problem, but don’t let facts get in the way of a…” Jun 22, 11:57
Alf Baird on The End Of Law: “” It seems likely that you hugely underestimate external influences (without using a model of determinism) which include centuries of…” Jun 22, 11:31
sam on The End Of Law: “Crude, but apt and wonderful.” Jun 22, 11:02
Spartan 117 on The End Of Law: “Indeed. Or, as one meme I have seen sums it up, Hermes have changed to Evri. It’s a bit like…” Jun 22, 10:25
robertkknight on The End Of Law: “Starmer, Burnham….two cheeks of the same arse.” Jun 22, 10:11
willie on The End Of Law: “So Starmer has gone. Deck chairs reshuffled. To change the old Labour song the reality is that ” things are…” Jun 22, 10:01
