A decisive choice 264
Posted on
August 26, 2014 by
Alistair Davidson
Archive for the ‘video’
Out of the loop 203
Posted on
August 26, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The key exchange on currency from last night’s debate:
At the end of the clip, a flustered Darling finally blurts out what the No camp have been trying not to admit for the entire campaign: “Of course we could use the pound”.
Unionists and journalists are now frantically spinning that they’d never denied such a thing. But we know that’s not true, and nobody got left with more egg on their face than Mr Darling’s supposed superior, Scottish Labour “leader” Johann Lamont.
Voices of the people 157
Posted on
August 26, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Things you’ll never hear a Scottish interviewer say.
Kezia Dugdale is a liar 147
Posted on
August 25, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s some interesting footage circulating today of a referendum debate for women that took place last week. Many people have focused on No-campaign representative Cat Headley admitting that a “Better Together” leaflet made some highly misleading claims about an independent Scotland’s ranking among the world’s wealthiest countries, but we covered that back in May so we won’t go over it again.
The bit of the meeting that caught our eye is at 1m 36 in the clip above.
Gordon Brown is a liar 450
Posted on
August 21, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is what goes on behind the closed doors of invitation-only events run by the No campaign. Here, the former PM and self-proclaimed “ex-politician” lies through his teeth (again) to a Fife audience in June, presumably hoping they’ve by now forgotten his incompetent reign as Chancellor – the massive pensions raid, the cut-price sell-off of the nation’s gold, the ending of the 10p tax rate and all the rest, and the calamitous economic crisis he bequeathed to the nation:
Apparently oil revenues will be the sole source of money for an independent Scotland. No taxes at all. Apparently they’re only “£3 billion a year”, even though they’ve in fact NEVER been as low as £3bn since the Scottish Parliament existed and most sensible projections put receipts for the next few years at an average of at least twice that.
A little origami swan 28
Posted on
August 20, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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All in the edit 214
Posted on
August 16, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An alert reader notes an interesting choice of cutoff point on Reporting Scotland:
(From Friday 15 August, 11m 53s.)
When is a pot not a pot? 188
Posted on
August 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is a “Better Together” graphic about pensions.
We’d like you to note what it says carefully. There’ll be a quiz in a minute.
Put on the glasses 142
Posted on
August 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Saluting one of our favourite movies of all time.
(The glasses are here. Well over 100,000 downloads so far today.)
And smile, smile, smile 245
Posted on
August 10, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers may recall that when the UK government announced plans for a £55m jamboree to mark the beginning of World War 1, on a date conveniently before the independence referendum rather than the traditional Remembrance Day in November, the more cynical of Yes supporters were immediately suspicious and/or angry.
But despite David Cameron initially announcing it as a “Jubilee-style” event that would tap into the celebratory spirit of the Olympics and might feature a star-studded football match (rather clumsily between Germany and England, rather than Britain or the Allies), the assurance was given that it would in fact be a sombre event respectfully commemorating the sacrifice of the dead, and definitely NOT a jingoistic festival of Britishness designed to influence the outcome of the vote.
Above is the video released by the “Military Wives” choir for the occasion, featuring Eamonn Holmes, Alan Titchmarsh, a George Formby impersonator and a dancing dog singing “Pack Up Your Troubles”, a jaunty song about what a jolly lark war is.
