Did we miss a meeting? 254
Posted on
November 16, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s Neil Findlay MSP on this morning’s Andrew Marr Show:
Wait, what?
Archive for the ‘video’
Behind the mask 348
Posted on
November 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On last night’s Scotland Tonight, prospective Scottish Labour deputy “leader” Katy Clark MP told the nation that “it could be Scotland that lets us down”.
It wasn’t a slip of the tongue. By “us” she meant the Labour Party, and she went on to elaborate, telling the old Labour story about how UK general elections are about an Old Firm-style showdown betweeen two parties and how it was in essence the duty of Scots to vote Labour to keep the Tories out at Westminster, seemingly unaware that just as with the Old Firm, most people despise both of them pretty much equally.
(And conveniently overlooking the fact that Scots voted overwhelmingly Labour in 2010 and got the Tories anyway, as Labour obstinately refused to consider a “rainbow coalition” because they hated the SNP too much. What Scots learned that year was that Labour would rather let Tories rule Scotland than be civil to left-wing nationalists.)
The comments followed just a couple of days after Holyrood Magazine editor Mandy Rhodes had penned an article about the Scottish branch’s current woes that had a very telling first paragraph.
Painted out of a corner 166
Posted on
October 29, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Jim Murphy has finally announced that he’ll stand for the leadership of the Scottish branch office of the UK Labour Party. Tonight he told the Daily Record that:
“I am not going to shout at or about the SNP, I am going to talk to and listen to Scotland.”
For any of you who might have forgotten, here’s some recent footage of how Jim listens to Scotland and avoids shouting about the SNP:
The parting shot 97
Posted on
October 25, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Our undercover agent inside Labour (whose identity we can’t reveal, other than their codename “Nasa Warsar”) just leaked us this internal security-camera footage from both the Scottish and UK party HQs at the time of Johann Lamont’s resignation.
We’re sure readers can work out who’s who.
Hearing a different question 219
Posted on
October 21, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Margaret Curran on last night’s Scotland 2014:
Well, we don’t think anyone can say she didn’t give a full and comprehensive answer on the subject of Scottish Labour’s membership figures there.
Scottish Labour by numbers 297
Posted on
October 18, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is how many Scottish Labour M/SPs turn out to save their own cushy jobs:
This is the party 756
Posted on
October 01, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative conference today:
A simple misunderstanding 282
Posted on
September 15, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scottish Labour, having seemingly faced up to their shortcomings as a political branch office and thereby despaired of being able to win any arguments, have now resorted to what appears to be a final strategy: telling undecideds to vote No for no reason at all.
“If you don’t know, Vote No” is the very basest sort of political message. A direct appeal to people’s fear of change, a call for blind faith in a party that’s proven itself unable to earn that faith from the Scottish or British electorate for the past nine years and shows no sign of doing so in the future. It’s a message that has very little going for it other than a sort of crude animal simplicity.
(Emphasised by the fact that “If you don’t know – vote No!” is the very first line, but Johann and Gordon feel the need to batter it into what we must presume they think are their voters’ thick, primitive brains by repeating it as a PS mere moments later.)
But Scottish Labour being Scottish Labour, they can’t even get THAT right.
They work for you 183
Posted on
September 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Who’s this? A bunch of lairy, pissed-up neds on a stag weekend?
Nope. Labour members of the Scottish and UK Parliaments, out “campaigning” in Glasgow today. This is their job. You’re paying them to do this. Be proud, Scotland.
Handed back on a plate 288
Posted on
September 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From a press conference a few minutes ago:
We must admit, this is our favoured mode for the First Minister.
Politics is satire plus time 509
Posted on
September 10, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s an image we made back in October 2012:
It’s based on a graphic from the movie version of “V For Vendetta”.
