The waste monster 201
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March 03, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘uk politics’
Asking for it 573
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March 01, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Labour reaches out to voters again 135
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February 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scottish Labour MEP David Martin chats to the audience about TTIP.
The Unrefuteables 211
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February 25, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On the left below is part of a Scottish Labour election leaflet that’s currently being put through Scottish letterboxes, featuring an alleged quote from an alleged NHS Scotland nurse identified as “Suzanne” from Clackmannanshire.
On the right is the CastingNow profile of an actress named only as “Suzanne” from Clackmannanshire, who describes herself by saying: “I’m very good at making people believe things which aren’t true hence why I’ve always been told to pursue acting.”
While they have very similarly-shaped faces and features, we have no idea whether the two Suzannes are the same person or if it’s just a strange and potentially amusing coincidence. But the point is, there’s no way of finding out.
The Vow remains an orphan 103
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February 24, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Another letter from the government. Sounds a lot like the others.
The tyranny of whining 149
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February 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The excellent Jon Ronson has had a couple of articles published recently promoting his imminent book about the phenomenon of “internet shaming”, most recently one in yesterday’s Guardian. He talks fascinatingly with and about people who’ve had their lives ruined because they said things that weren’t illegal, but merely deemed in some way unacceptable by a self-elected mob, often led by the professionally-offended.
Some of the victims are sympathetic and others less so, according to one’s personal tastes and prejudices. But the overall picture painted is one of a world in which it’s becoming harder and harder to express opinions beyond the crushingly bland.
We saw countless examples during the independence referendum, in which comments which were often very mildly rude at worst – calling someone a “minion”, say – were inflated by press and/or social media hysteria into shock-horror scandals. (Indeed, on a few occasions this site was itself the subject of the monsterings.)
Such witch-hunts were of course done in the furtherance of a political agenda – in those cases, in the service of a No vote. But it’s interesting to see a wider version of the tactic being deployed against the SNP in the context of a UK general election.
A horrifying thought 181
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February 20, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the Minister for Care and Support, Lib Dem MP Norman Lamb, on last night’s Question Time, letting Scotland know its status as an equal and valued partner in the UK, a partner whose democratically-elected MPs have the same right to have their voice heard on behalf of their constituents as those from anywhere else.
Glad we cleared that one up.
A couple of new ones 169
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February 19, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
These are starting to get a bit surreal.
“Vote Labour, get SNP!”
“Vote UKIP, get trade unions!”
We’ve added them to the list. Keep ’em peeled, folks!
Struggling for words 117
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February 19, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Vote banana, get tractor 210
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February 17, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Throwing in the towel 131
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February 16, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, at least now we know why Labour are so wedded to this shameful lie.
It’s because they’ve already given up on winning the rest of the UK.
Way back when 75
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February 16, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Do you remember the old days, readers? We’re talking about the far-off era of ancient history when Labour insisted that the worst, most evil, most right-wing thing that any government could do was to cut Corporation Tax, and that it was vital Scotland didn’t become independent in case that catastrophe occurred:
Obviously that means 2013 and 2014, rather than the prehistoric days of 2008, when Labour was frantically slashing the tax at every chance it got, and promising more cuts as soon as possible. And it couldn’t possibly be the current policy, because backflipping on it yet AGAIN would just be absurd, right?
