During a debate on the UK government’s recent decision to abandon the notion of gender self-ID, SNP MP Anne McLaughlin told the Commons chamber that it was still the Scottish Government’s “strong commitment” to go ahead with highly controversial reform of the law BEFORE next year’s Holyrood election.
But that isn’t what Scottish voters were told earlier this year.
We were looking for something else this afternoon, but accidentally found this:
Just two weeks before the last Holyrood election, widely-respected analysts Weber Shandwick had put together a prediction of how the results would pan out. Just for a bit of fun, let’s compare it to the reality.
You now have less than 24 hours left to secure your copy of our intermittent cartoonist Mr Cairns’ latest beautifully-crafted volume of biting political satire featuring a cute lion. (No, not the one pictured below.)
For the love of God please don’t upset him or we’ll get more like this.
A few minutes later, Momentum activist Cathleen Clarke and former Tony Blair adviser John McTernan appeared on Sky News to sort it all out for confused viewers.
“Flounders” might have been a more appropriate animal.
It’s painfully entertaining viewing, but Gordon Brewer’s persistence pays off right at the end as we finally discover that Scottish Labour’s answer is “No – even if a clear majority of Scottish people vote for parties explicitly calling for a second independence referendum, and return a majority of pro-indy MSPs to Parliament, we will not consider that sufficient support.”
Which would mean there was no democratic route left open to Scotland to achieve independence. So what is it that he suggests we do?
We just watched a nine-minute segment on Sky News, purportedly on the subject of “Is the Union between Scotland and England under threat?”, which for maximum balance and impartiality included views from both Labour and the Tories – in the forms of Paul Sweeney MP and John Lamont MP – but nobody else.
Both men spouted some quite extraordinary claims, all of which went unchallenged by presenter Adam Boulton. Let’s just take a quick look at a couple of the best ones.
Alf Baird on The Final Robbery: “““We’ve been colonised by wankers”.” Indeed, a ‘famous rant’, and spot on. Matches anything by Burns, even. Well said Irvine…” May 26, 07:09
Hatey McHateface on The Final Robbery: “Good post, Geri. Don’t all those posters wanging oan aboot stolen money grind yer gears though? They could be shilling…” May 26, 07:08
Bilbo on The Final Robbery: “As others have said, it was a paltry sum compared to what both were legally earning throughout the period but…” May 26, 04:19
Young Lochinvar on The Final Robbery: “Chas @ 9.49 Bad enough that it may be so without you wishing it! You Scotchland hating cringing Unionists really…” May 26, 02:21
Lynne on The Final Robbery: “No public funds were lost Just the small matter of £2.7m Brachform has cost.” May 26, 01:37
Young Lochinvar on The Final Robbery: “Olster 2 “words”. – Boris Johnson -. They are ALL self serving scum.” May 26, 01:34
Young Lochinvar on The Final Robbery: “Reminiscent of Dugdales “yer too thick to know what ye were saying” judges summary in its case against the site…” May 26, 01:29
David Lindsay on The Final Robbery: “Tessa Jowell professed to have had no idea that David Mills had remortgaged their house. At least unless you believed…” May 26, 01:12
Olster on The Final Robbery: “I’m a unionist, unreservedly. However I have great respect for the Rev’s journalistic brilliance. I have always had a modicum…” May 26, 01:01
Ian Smith on The Final Robbery: “If the Murrell/Sturgeon junta couldn’t keep their sticky fingers off a mere 600k in the SNP’s accounts, what have they…” May 26, 00:27
Colin Dawson on The Final Robbery: “I asked Google AI: “If it transpires that Sturgeon was the benificiary of his embezzlement, can any of the assets…” May 26, 00:08
Mark Beggan on The Final Robbery: “There’s no need to rub Patrick Thistles nose in it. A Third world hick with lots of oil.” May 25, 23:57
Geri on The Final Robbery: “They’re the only two sticking to international law despite severe provocation that’d test the patience of saint. Just shows how…” May 25, 23:54
Grum on The Final Robbery: “Since I was young, Scotland was solidly Labour, and they were corrupt bastards. Unfortunately, it appears that the modern SNP…” May 25, 23:46
Confused on The Final Robbery: ““dont worry peter – that dot bain will get ya aff … ” did peter and nikki have a joint…” May 25, 23:46
James on The Final Robbery: “Two sneering, servile unionists there. Both paid by the post.” May 25, 23:32
James on The Final Robbery: “Got that, everyone? English-appointed civil servants and Vauxhall Cross are benign agents, and do nothing but good in Scotland and…” May 25, 23:29
James on The Final Robbery: “Your comment is correct. Almost. You pay f*ck all to Scotland in taxes. The ‘block grant’ as England patronisingly calls…” May 25, 23:22
Oneliner on The Final Robbery: “Agreed, Robin is on fire. The next Through A Scottish Prism should be interesting.” May 25, 23:11
Hatey McHateface on The Final Robbery: ““So where is it during the night ?” Erm. It’s the Earth that moves. It revolves on its axis. The…” May 25, 23:07
Onlooker on The Final Robbery: “https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/artist-paints-nicola-sturgeon-over-5002394” May 25, 23:02
Hatey McHateface on The Final Robbery: “That’s the size small. The size XL is £99.99.” May 25, 22:35
Skip_NC on The Final Robbery: “I’m curious why you’re including Calum Steele in that comment. He was the only one of those you mentioned who…” May 25, 22:23
robertkknight on The Final Robbery: “Anyone with an ounce of integrity should be angry as to what’s happened to the SNP over the past decade.…” May 25, 22:19
A2 on The Final Robbery: “Nope, the whole 600k is still missing. He’s nicked from the SNP but theres nothing that shows he just took…” May 25, 22:15
Hatey McHateface on The Final Robbery: ““The embezzlement amounts to an average of £35k per year, and for most of that period, him and Sturgeon would…” May 25, 22:08
GM on The Final Robbery: “True.. and we are kept in that state by the actions of self serving, conscienceless wankers. Sturgeon being the worst…” May 25, 22:02
Colin Alexander on The Final Robbery: “Well done Stuart Campbell and Sean Clerkin. If it weren’t for yous pesky kids, he would probably got away with…” May 25, 22:00
Hatey McHateface on The Final Robbery: “Hark to the tinkle of the royal wee. “We all know the media aren’t journalists these days either but government…” May 25, 21:55
Graham Fordyce on The Final Robbery: “This has always been about who controls the message. If you’re looking for justice, then take control yourself. Let’s raise…” May 25, 21:54
