Archive for the ‘uk politics’
In case you’ve been napping 341
…or, like us, out buying Eurovision party snacks:
This is a non-trivial matter. The (at the time) Secretary of State for Scotland seems to have just admitted deliberately and knowingly undermining the democratically-elected First Minister. The report may have been sneakily published on the eve of a Bank Holiday weekend, but we suspect this one won’t have gone away by Tuesday.
We’ve lost track again 318
So cutting Corporation Tax is back to being a good left-wing thing, yes?
Moodievision: The Fall And Fall… 150
…Of Ed Miliband.
The lockout 511
There was an interesting line in The National yesterday:
“The monthly Scottish Questions in Parliament looks set to be an odd affair.
In other words, business as usual.
The polls were not wrong 312
Much of the commentariat and media has been in a froth for the last 24 hours about the supposed failure of the nation’s pollsters to predict the Conservative victory. This, for example, was Labour’s highly-paid election guru David Axelrod:
But the truth is that the polls – just like the heavily-maligned exit poll which turned out to be bang on the money – got nothing wrong. The people interpreting them did.
Seeing it coming a mile off 125
The media might be shocked. But readers of Wings aren’t.
Because there’s simply no excuse for anyone acting surprised.
The something and nothing election 274
Stronger for Scotland 1,718
Popularity contest – results in 399
Children’s author, billionaire and Labour donor JK Rowling, last year:
You feeling that popularity yet, readers?























