A thousand miles of stupid 233
Posted on
February 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Even we can’t quite believe this one, readers.
Good grief, where do we even start?
Archive for the ‘wtf’
An unsettling development 110
Posted on
January 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Since we’ve been talking about mad letters from Scottish Labour MPs today, we’re sharing this one with you too. We’ve been trying to make sense of it all evening.
We haven’t made any progress. It’s not just a simple accidental transposition of words, because if you switch “increased” and “decreased” around it’s still gibberish – why would the threat have decreased because of proliferation? If anyone can explain it, do drop us a line.
A couple of hours off 170
Posted on
January 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because there’s really no satire we can add to this magnificent zoomery:
So we might as well pop out to the shops for a bit.
Every land an island 210
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January 14, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An alert reader pointed us today to this audio clip of Jim Murphy. It’s not tagged, but we THINK it’s from a Radio Clyde interview about three weeks ago which oddly didn’t seem to get picked up at the time by anyone in the media.
It’s an interesting viewpoint.
The succulent bams 249
Posted on
January 13, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Jim Murphy didn’t turn up at Westminster today to vote with the Tories for £30bn of austerity cuts, like 28 of his Scottish Labour colleagues did. That’s because he was taking some Scottish journalists to lunch to explain an important thing to them.
We’ve been sat staring at a blank paragraph for the last 10 minutes trying to think of something satirical to say. We’ve got nothing, readers.
Reaching out to Yes 126
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January 09, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers may recall that since the election of Jim Murphy as Scottish Labour branch office manager he’s barely gone a moment without promising to “reach out” to Yes voters. Last month he even pledged that he’d employ some in his team if he won the Labour job.
We imagine they’ll be fair hammering on his door after the latest addition to his crew, because today’s Herald reveals that Murphy’s new chief of staff, and joining “Better Together” director Blair McDougall among Jim’s backroom boys, is to be our old pal John “there will be no referendum” McTernan.
A minor detail 192
Posted on
January 05, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From today’s Telegraph:
Actual number of children belonging to Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell: 0.
You literally can’t make this stuff up.
One thousand louder 142
Posted on
January 05, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We had to extend our festive semi-break for a day to deal with some administrative matters, readers, but it’s just as well, because the thing that happened today would have defied our best attempts at either analysis or satire.
That’s a real thing we didn’t make up. Saints preserve us.
Diversification strategy 137
Posted on
December 26, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Wait, what?
We know there’s a lot of talk of the other Unionist parties stepping aside in order to give Scottish Labour a clear run in 2015, in a desperate attempt to stop the SNP from picking up too many seats, but this is surely taking it a bit far.
Granny’s at the gin again 220
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December 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We missed this on Sunday, because it was 17 minutes into on the short-lived and unlamented “Crossfire” (now binned for a Sunday edition of “Good Morning Scotland”) and therefore pretty much everyone in Scotland missed it. It’s former Labour minister Helen Liddell, or as we should properly address her, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke.
[audio http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/liddell-crossfire-21dec2014.mp3 ]We’ve spared you her subsequent painful bleating about a general election 35 years ago that she doesn’t seem to have quite gotten over, but we couldn’t help raising an eyebrow at her curious assessment of the referendum result, which we suspect fellow guest Andrew “Lallands Peat Worrier” Tickell was simply too stunned to react to.
The alpha ned 219
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December 22, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Fans of the bewildering in Scottish politics don’t look set to be disappointed in 2015.
Jim Murphy’s only been the Scottish Labour “leader” for a week, but already he seems hell-bent on hurling the party’s North British branch into the padded walls of its cell with more vigour than ever before, heroically ignoring the open door.
The best-laid plans 195
Posted on
December 07, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Social media has been alive in recent days with No voters concocting a fiendish plan to vote tactically against the SNP at next year’s general election. Labour supporters are urging people to vote Conservative rather than let the SNP take any new seats which might be used to secure a better devolution settlement for Scotland.
We’re not sure the Nats have too much to worry about.
