Fury as new hospital is too amazing 136
Posted on
April 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘uk politics’
The wheels of time grind slowly 116
Posted on
April 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re sure we’re not the only people for whom the hours are dragging and we wish the election would just hurry up and get here, but all the same we’re pretty sure that if there were 11 days left to save the UK on Sunday morning, then by Tuesday morning there should be fewer than 10 still to go.
The wild weekend 162
Posted on
April 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Labour then and Labour now 170
Posted on
April 25, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scotland on Sunday, 21 March this year:
And here’s the Guardian today.
We’re sure those miners Scottish Labour laid a wreath for a month ago will be chuffed.
Taxi drivers wanted 320
Posted on
April 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Lord Digby Jones, formerly head of the famously politically neutral CBI, on the SNP.
We’re going to have to check what the CBI’s position on electoral reform was before First Past The Post threatened to elect a load of SNP MPs and became a democratic outrage in the process. We’ll get back to you on that one.
Moodievision: Turning Jockanese 154
Posted on
April 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A new Wings Over Scotland exclusive, coming to you every Wednesday at noon.
You lucky, lucky people.
The peas envoy 119
Posted on
April 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers were startled yesterday when a former UK Prime Minister who WASN’T Gordon Brown suddenly took it upon himself to lumber out of his crypt and unleash an unsolicited intervention in the general election campaign.
As apparently that’s now the requirement for anyone attempting to influence a vote in Britain, we’re sure Sir John – a man best remembered in the world of politics for cheating on his wife with one of his ministers and instituting the Cones Hotline – will remind us which constituency he’s standing for any minute now.
Zoomers on stunned 317
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April 20, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you thought the right-wing press was having paroxysms at the weekend, readers, you’re going to love what they had lined up for the day of the SNP manifesto launch.
Let’s have a little tour of the London newsrooms, shall we?
Shifting the goalposts 200
Posted on
April 18, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A variant on the story below appears in most of the right-wing press today.
That’s the Daily Mail version, which is the most detailed. The Express’s reporting was similar. But in order to manufacture a grievance on behalf of UKIP and the Tories, every paper which covers the story is required to torture the data beyond all reason.
The angry cheerleaders 131
Posted on
April 18, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In the wake of the latest Ashcroft polls, the only line being deployed by Scottish Labour is that the projected outcome of an SNP landslide would be great news for the Conservatives and lead to David Cameron returning in triumph to Downing Street. One would presume, then, that the Tory press is delighted by the prospect.
So let’s check out some stories from today’s Daily Mail and Scottish Daily Mail.
