The world's most-read Scottish politics website

Wings Over Scotland


Data mining #3

Posted on August 10, 2013 by

A series of super-short snippets from our splendid survey.

————————————————————————————————

VOTERS WHO THINK ALISTAIR DARLING ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH

Lib Dems: 9%
Conservatives: 6%
Labour: 4%
SNP: <1%

Age 45-54: <1%
Age 55-64: 1%
Age 65+: 8%

————————————————————————————————

23 to “Data mining #3”

  1. Bugger (the Panda) says:

    Solicitor.

    Reply
  2. Jiggsbro says:

    Senile dementia is a terrible thing.

    Reply
  3. Vronsky says:

    As I’ve said before, the fault in this question is the word ‘always’.  I don’t always tell the truth, but I consider myself a fairly truthful person on the whole.

    Reply
  4. gordoz says:

    Its all the fudder dudders & blue rinses
    Dont find the subject of Captain Darling very funny > he screwed our finances and their pensions……… grey vote clowns

    what planet are Lib dems from ???

    Reply
  5. Yesitis says:

    Gordoz
    Its all the fudder dudders & blue rinses
     
    link to bbc.co.uk

    Reply
  6. Juteman says:

    In the ‘good old days’. politicians were decent folk who helped old ladies to cross the road.
    Nowadays, anyone with access to the internet knows the truth.

    Reply
  7. Murray McCallum says:

    LidDems so gullible. Haven’t learned from England tuition fee signed public pledges.  Despair!

    Reply
  8. handclapping says:

     Look at the eyebrows. Look at the eyebrows. You are feeling sleepy. I am telling you the truth. I always tell the truth. When I snap my fingers you will wake up.

    Reply
  9. Jimbo says:

    Yes, those Lib dems really are a gullible bunch.
     
    They even believe their own manifesto pledges.

    Reply
  10. Doug Daniel says:

    I love the fact only 4% of Labour voters think he tells the truth.

    Reply
  11. gordoz says:

    Doug Daniel : Labour 4%
    Thats best of all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

    Reply
  12. jahoca says:

    First time post. I’m not a pensioner but I expect I’m not the only reader of this page who’ll find the having a go at what used to be referred to as senior citizens thoughtless and unnecessary. Instead of looking for someone to slag off you could take from this that even of those groups who find Darling most convincing, less than one in ten actually do.

    Reply
    • Rev. Stuart Campbell says:

      “First time post. I’m not a pensioner but I expect I’m not the only reader of this page who’ll find the having a go at what used to be referred to as senior citizens thoughtless and unnecessary. Instead of looking for someone to slag off you could take from this that even of those groups who find Darling most convincing, less than one in ten actually do.”

      Sorry, what? Who had a go at anyone?

      Reply
  13. <Achievement Unlocked>

    Reply
  14. Jamie Arriere says:

    Good point Jahoca, 11 of 12 pensioners don’t believe Darling all the time either – they’ll be very aware of who was in the Treasury when the credit crunch shoved their pensions into reverse!!

    Reply
  15. jahoca says:

    Top of the thread – ‘grey vote clowns’ / ‘fudder dudders’. Sorry, Rev. I didn’t mean ‘you’ personally.

    Reply
    • Rev. Stuart Campbell says:

      “Top of the thread – ‘grey vote clowns’ / ‘fudder dudders’. Sorry, Rev. I didn’t mean ‘you’ personally.”

      Ah yes.

      I agree, that sort of language doesn’t do anyone any favours, though I don’t think it was meant as rudely as you maybe think. I do quite often ask people to remember that other folks are reading and that you rarely win anyone over with abuse.

      Reply
  16. jahoca says:

    “Ah yes.
    I agree, that sort of language doesn’t do anyone any favours, though I don’t think it was meant as rudely as you maybe think. I do quite often ask people to remember that other folks are reading and that you rarely win anyone over with abuse.” 

    I imagine you’ll pick up a lot more readers over the next year or so – it has to be said the Wings site is extraordinarily interesting (and entertaining with it). Thanks for the reply.

    Reply
  17. Morag says:

    I was reading Stu’s Twitter feed (it’s that or clean the bathroom….), and was vastly amused to find a journalist taking him to task for anonymity and not posting under his own name.  I mean, the man didn’t back off even when Stu told him he always posted under his own name and everybody and his budgie knows who he is.

    I just entered “Stuart Campbell, Bath” into 192.com.  There are two of them but it’s quite obvious from the age profiles which is our Rev.  If I was prepared to give 192.com some money (which I emphatically am not) I could have his home address, probably phone number and an entire report on him including company directorships and probably what colour of socks he’s wearing.

    Honestly, what are they teaching them at journalism school these days?

    Reply
  18. Taranaich says:

    My Unionist friend’s a Lib Dem. They like Darling.
     
    This explains a lot.

    Reply
    • Bugger (the Panda) says:

      Taranaich
       
      Wet, very wet behind the ears, the LibDems are.

      Reply
  19. Morag says:

    Have you read Stu’s “about us” page?  Just asking….

    <nonchalant whistling smilie>

    Reply
  20. Taranaich says:

    Aye, but clearly our Rev isn’t your typical Lib Dem voter!

    Reply


Comment - please read this page for comment rules. HTML tags like <i> and <b> are permitted. Use paragraph breaks in long comments. DO NOT SIGN YOUR COMMENTS, either with a name or a slogan. If your comment does not appear immediately, DO NOT REPOST IT. Ignore these rules and I WILL KILL YOU WITH HAMMERS.


  • About

    Wings Over Scotland is a thing that exists.

    Stats: 6,869 Posts, 1,234,700 Comments

  • Recent Posts

  • Archives

  • Categories

  • Tags

  • Recent Comments

    • Lorna Campbell on Yelling at the tide: “No legislation in existence, in Scotland or the UK, gives any man the right to enter female spaces, even where…Jan 21, 16:31
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “And you, Father, are a total embarrassment… period. Not least because of your over-reliance on the exclamation mark and the…Jan 21, 16:00
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: ““Give up son…” No, Father… I will never give up, I will never surrender. And know this, oh giver of…Jan 21, 15:52
    • holymacmoses on Yelling at the tide: “Perfect:-)Jan 21, 15:34
    • Insider on Yelling at the tide: “Christ ! What an utter clown you are “Northcode” Give up son ! You’re a total embarrassment to the Indy…Jan 21, 15:15
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “Here’s anither yin taken fae the online “Dictionars o the Scots Leid”: SIN, adv., prep., conj. Also syn, sen, san(e),…Jan 21, 14:58
    • Alf Baird on Yelling at the tide: ““the Scottish Legal System operates in a context free vacuum” The basic principle of any colonial justice system is that…Jan 21, 14:51
    • lothianlad on Yelling at the tide: “stick with it warrior Stu! Thank you for all you do for truth and justiceJan 21, 14:49
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “” We knew you would not disappoint us…” I wonder who the “we” and “us” are. Must be aw its…Jan 21, 14:32
    • Andy Wiltshire on Yelling at the tide: “In reply to your letter, we undertake to give a response immediately after the conclusion of Operation Branchform.Jan 21, 14:16
    • sarah on Yelling at the tide: “The plot thickens. Very well done, Rev, and thank you once again for trying, directly, to improve public standards in…Jan 21, 13:53
    • Ian Smith on Yelling at the tide: “Bear in mind that AI can be prompted to agree with the type of query it is presented with. If…Jan 21, 13:50
    • sam on Yelling at the tide: ““I would bet money that is at the heart of the Kemp fiasco.” Me,too. And “correspondence”? What part did this…Jan 21, 13:35
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “God Almighty the colonialists on here are thick. And their reading comprehension of the English language appears to be wanting,…Jan 21, 13:26
    • Cynicus on Yelling at the tide: ““If you are satisfied that Judge Kemp did not derive them from generative AI, are you equally satisfied that the…Jan 21, 13:12
    • sam on Yelling at the tide: “Scrutiny of the tribunal findings from Genspect. “The Tribunal maintains on the one hand that “having the protected characteristic of…Jan 21, 13:10
    • Confused on The Secondhand Amendment: “let’s remember the facts of our own situation; historical interlude … the union, when you look into what happened, is…Jan 21, 13:00
    • Ian Smith on Yelling at the tide: “Surely Judge Kemp must have read these landmark rulings by himself and noticed that his judicial colleague was talking nonsense.…Jan 21, 12:57
    • Confused on The Secondhand Amendment: “no iranian cleric ever stole your country’s oil, resources, made you second class citizens/white n1ggers, spilled your blood for nothing,…Jan 21, 12:57
    • Confused on The Secondhand Amendment: “it’s called the speculative society and its a drop your keks, grab your ankles and bite down on this ……Jan 21, 12:56
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “sin [s?n, s?n] adv. Since, ago, from now, from that time. prep. Since, from the time of, after. conj. Since,…Jan 21, 12:43
    • sam on Yelling at the tide: “I think it likely that the matter of correspondence with a judicial colleague will be raised in the EAT to…Jan 21, 12:43
    • Dave Hansell on Yelling at the tide: “Sadly, for the poster known as Northcode, an award claimed immediately by a post which implies, if not effectively argues,…Jan 21, 12:30
    • Hatey McHateface on Yelling at the tide: “Sure about that, Alf? My innate knowledge of Scots, backed up by a check in the Scots dictionary, shows “sin”…Jan 21, 12:16
    • Hatey McHateface on Yelling at the tide: “Given that Shona is to be replaced by Susan, it would be interesting if some forensic journalist were to dig…Jan 21, 12:05
    • Lorna Campbell on Yelling at the tide: “Strangely enough, for a nationalist, and a Scottish nationalist at that (though not SNP) I do not believe that this…Jan 21, 12:04
    • Lord_Humblecroft on Yelling at the tide: “Stu, The judicial colleagues are in all likelihood the lay members of the tribunal: Court docs show: Employment Judge A…Jan 21, 11:54
    • jim Thomson on Yelling at the tide: “I gave up holding my breath for such results a long time ago. The Establishment will, undoubtedly, close ranks again…Jan 21, 11:52
    • James Cheyne on The Secondhand Amendment: “Sam, Indeed this did go on, if the pay was right and rewards of land or titles could be Acquired…Jan 21, 11:48
    • Hatey McHateface on Yelling at the tide: “Wow, Northy, Off Topic by comment # 11. Surely a new Wings BTL record. As for self-identifying as shit, that’s…Jan 21, 11:47
  • A tall tale



↑ Top