Fluid times 148
Posted on
July 26, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A brief note on the current futility of political commentary.
Remember that? Well, let’s see how it really works.
Archive for the ‘uk politics’
The Labour case for Trident 612
Posted on
July 17, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is prospective Labour leader Owen Smith on the Andrew Marr show this morning, explaining why he’ll be one of the 65% of Labour MPs voting in favour of the renewal of Trident next week:
Let’s just see if we can get this straight once and for all.
The tantrums of fantasists 609
Posted on
July 15, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If there haven’t been as many posts on this site as people might expect at a time of such incredible political turmoil, it’s because Wings isn’t at heart a commentary blog. We don’t do a lot of flat-out opinion pieces, tending to concern ourselves more with measurable, empirical facts, and since nobody knows anything about anything at the moment, we haven’t had all that much useful to say.
But the closest thing there is right now to a certainty is that sometime quite soon, Unionist politicians in Scotland are going to have to grow up and deal with this:
And their problem is that there’s no possible way to.
Into the briar patch 348
Posted on
July 14, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scotsman reports a “blow” to Nicola Sturgeon this morning:
So the official Westminster line is that Scotland will HAVE to become independent if it wants to remain in the EU. We’re sure the FM will be absolutely gutted to hear that.
Kounting With Kezia 246
Posted on
July 08, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Earlier today we were moved to tweet our scepticism regarding a claim made by the Scottish Labour branch manager Kezia Dugdale, as reported in the Guardian.
Even on the most casual glance, the numbers just didn’t seem to add up. If 62% of Scots voted to stay in the EU and 55% voted to stay in the UK, with no correlation between the two things, then the Venn-diagram intersection between those two groups seems pretty unlikely to add up to more than 50%, let alone a “vast” majority.
So as we like to do, we checked.
The UK Politics 2016 FAQ 275
Posted on
July 07, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s a lot going on at the moment, readers, and an awful lot of conflicting analysis and commentary to confuse people trying to make sense of it.
Luckily, as ever, Wings Over Scotland is here to cut through the bull and give you the straight answers to the burning questions of the day.
So happy together 205
Posted on
July 04, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If it was up to Vince from Hull, a fence should divide England from Scotland following the EU result #BrexitBritainhttps://t.co/Rq5VExlUCj
— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 4, 2016
All things are relative 874
Posted on
June 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Of the UK’s potential next Prime Ministers, Theresa May is the nice one.
We’ll just leave you to ponder that for a bit.
