Despite what you or we might think, in the eyes of the Scottish Football Association this ISN’T a pitch invasion. This is simply what a football match in progress looks like.
Because according to the absolutely extraordinary statement they’ve released this evening, that was game time. The clock was still running, nothing was being added to account for the fact that there were thousands of thugs rampaging across the field, and the game was still happening in that moment, until it was ended four seconds later.
To pass the time on (praise be to Baby Jeebus) the last day of the Holyrood election campaign, we thought we’d do a catch-up summary of all the seat projections we could find from last month and this month. Here it is.
Now, as it happens we think the potential seat ranges are significantly wider. There are so many factors of uncertainty that while there’s no credible doubt who’s going to be the biggest party, we reckon SNP seats could potentially be anywhere from about 47 to 68 (most likely the upper part of that range), with corresponding ramifications below.
But there’s one potentially interesting thing in that bottom half.
We think the lads at The Scotsman might have gotten a bit confused and/or carried away when it came to putting the clocks forward at the weekend. At 6am on Sunday morning they tweeted this:
But the link was a 404. We checked the print edition of Scotland On Sunday but there was nothing there either. Finally, though, the article has shown up in today’s paper and on the website, and to be honest with you, readers, we still think it must be some sort of mistake, because it’s two days early for April 1st.
It seems that it’s fine to farm important judgments out to mysterious shadowy figures who just make important chunks of them up out of thin air, and then issue them in your own name. Back in your boxes, plebs.
This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week.
It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while now across almost any contentious political topic) – but it led us to somewhere magnitudes of crazier still.
Because, y’know, you can call us old-fashioned purists or sticklers or whatever if you like, but government ministers probably shouldn’t openly lie in prepared statements to the High Court in order to pervert the course of justice.
We thought we should keep track of all the issues with the Peggie tribunal judgment, now that Sandie Peggie has officially announced her intention to appeal it.
The first and most important thing to note about yesterday’s judgment in the Sandie Peggie tribunal is that it’s a very big victory. The tribunal found that Sandie Peggie was gravely and heinously harassed by her employer through no fault of her own, and she’ll be entitled to substantial compensation as a result.
It also ruled, repeatedly and unequivocally, that Dr “Beth” Upton (who’s referred to in the judgment as “the second respondent”) is a man.
The motion completely ignored both the findings of the Cass Review and the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland, but not a single MSP spoke in opposition to it. (Jenni Minto, the Minister For Public Health And Women’s Health, actually broke down in tears at the end because she wasn’t managing to get children’s futures permanently destroyed with sufficient urgency, mainly because the UK Parliament took legislation out of Holyrood’s hands to protect them.)
Hatey McHateface on Marvola The Memory Woman: “It’s reasonable to assume she may have thrown the odd steam iron in his direction from time to time.” May 29, 19:06
Sue Varley on Marvola The Memory Woman: “She certainly used to go in the kitchen – remember the photo of her showing off her expensive coffee machine…” May 29, 19:04
Ex President Xiden on Marvola The Memory Woman: “I think it’s most appropriate that Nicola is currently on a tour of story telling festivals.” May 29, 18:54
agentx on Marvola The Memory Woman: ““Nicola Sturgeon has said she wishes she had not kept Peter Murrell on as SNP chief executive when she became…” May 29, 18:35
agentx on Marvola The Memory Woman: “Starmer will be PM “in the next few weeks”. If Burnham is elected at the by election nothing will happen…” May 29, 18:30
Young Lochinvar on Marvola The Memory Woman: “Duty rumour doing the rounds is that all the gear sneaky Pete “acquired” with others money will not be returned…” May 29, 18:17
Hatey McHateface on Marvola The Memory Woman: “Call that news, x? I’ll tell you what would be news. If The National could accurately predict who the PM…” May 29, 18:07
Hatey McHateface on Marvola The Memory Woman: “Might be “resting” somewhere. I’ve heard that does happen.” May 29, 18:01
Hatey McHateface on Marvola The Memory Woman: ““The term ‘scot-free’ has bugger aw tae dae wi the Scots” Well now. Let’s just wait until the partan-faced lady…” May 29, 17:57
GM on Marvola The Memory Woman: “Agree 100% We need all the facts out there. Court the only place it can be done. Graeme White’s comments…” May 29, 17:49
J Robertson on Marvola The Memory Woman: “He probably “bought” and wrapped his own Xmas and birthday pressies” May 29, 17:44
Stephen on Marvola The Memory Woman: “100% and Scotland would have been a much better place if he had not resigned on September 19th 2014” May 29, 17:35
Stephen on Marvola The Memory Woman: “The problem Nicola still does not recognise is that when you tell a lie you then have to tell 10…” May 29, 17:32
Luigi on Marvola The Memory Woman: “Can the then SNP leadership be sued for negligence for failing to protect donations? There must be some way for…” May 29, 17:28
GM on Marvola The Memory Woman: “What’s he got to be in a huff aboot? This is the finest of times to get the videos out…” May 29, 17:18
agentx on Marvola The Memory Woman: ““JOHN Swinney will request a Section 30 order from the Prime Minister when they meet in “the next few weeks”…” May 29, 17:17
Gerry Parker on Marvola The Memory Woman: “Nor all your tears wash out a single word of it.” May 29, 16:35
Rev. Stuart Campbell on Marvola The Memory Woman: “No, he’s basically just in a huff.” May 29, 16:13
gm on Marvola The Memory Woman: “That usually means someone has complianed about the content of his videos.” May 29, 16:06
Jontoscot21 on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Amer Ambulance chases more dodgy, high profile clients than a pack of dugs after a van. This week he is…” May 29, 15:59
lothianlad on Marvola The Memory Woman: “See the dodgy pop man is keeping very quiet about his pals in the corrupt SNP” May 29, 15:32
Marie Clark on Off-topic: “Goodness Tinto that’s a real blast from the past. I mind when I was a wee girl, one Hogmany on…” May 29, 15:27
BLMac on Marvola The Memory Woman: “If the money stolen was the property of the SNP, what happened to the £700,000 Independence Fund which wasn’t the…” May 29, 15:20
Northcode on Marvola The Memory Woman: ““Ye foregoat tae plug Alf’s book!” Doun-Hauden: The Socio-Political Determinants of Scottish Independence (Kindle Edition – £4:99) by ALfred Baird…” May 29, 15:11
Young Lochinvar on Marvola The Memory Woman: “The thing is, when she turned her chair to face the wall, did her lawyer do the same as well…” May 29, 15:07
Hatey McHateface on Marvola The Memory Woman: “I’m interested to know if an SNP credit card is as multi-functional as the one Mr McColl borrows to slash…” May 29, 14:33
lothianlad on Marvola The Memory Woman: “Drunk on the illusion of power that comes from the posioned challice. Im also tempted to say…. Poor Nicola!” May 29, 14:17
