Heads up 63
Posted on
June 23, 2018 by
Chris Cairns
Deja news 116
Posted on
June 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Oh joy, it seems it’s time for the Scottish media’s annual cretinous non-story about the Scottish Government’s (entirely necessary and intrinsically unavoidable) “underspend”.
So as we’re busy today we’ll just refer you to some of the previous occasions we’ve covered it, because literally everything about it is exactly the same now as it was then.
See you same time next year, folks!
A funny kind of Unionism 274
Posted on
June 20, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In all the excitement of the torching of the devolution settlement, we forgot to mention a curious piece of data from our recent poll of English voters.
Of all the people south of the border who would gladly throw Scotland and Northern Ireland under the bus (and more to the point, out of the UK) in order to ensure England left the EU, by far the most willing were the voters of the only UK party which expressly identifies itself as standing FOR the Union – the Conservative And Unionist Party.
The Day Before Tomorrow Today 31
Posted on
June 20, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
They’re back to save us all.
Wait, correction, that should read: they’re back – God save us all.
Way back then 125
Posted on
June 19, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The false starters 544
Posted on
June 16, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Although this site is blacklisted by the press regulator IPSO and therefore unable to file complaints about inaccurate and misleading newspaper articles, our alert readers sometimes pick up the baton from Wings articles and do the job themselves.
We reported one such example a week ago.
But the reader who took up that complaint has furnished us with a bit of interesting background to the story, and also news of a rather more alarming outcome.
Return Of The Great Intervener 114
Posted on
June 15, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Goodness, are the Unionists THAT nervous already?
The bonehead parade 186
Posted on
June 15, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re seriously starting to think there’s some sort of competition going on among the Unionist parties of Scotland to see who’s the thickest. We’ve spent quite a bit of time pointing out the scarcely-believable dimness of the Scottish Conservative benches, but this week Scottish Labour really pulled out the stops to try to seize back the initiative.
As a warm-up act they came out swinging with one of their big hitters (which for taste reasons we’ve expressed as rhyming slang) in the form of our dear old pal and former Edinburgh South CLP chair Duncan Hothersall – last seen attacking a six-year-old girl for selling 50p cups of lemonade to thirsty festivalgoers – who impressively contrived to badly lose an argument with a bridge.
But hilarious as that was, it wasn’t the high point by a distance.
News shafted 169
Posted on
June 14, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Yesterday was quite an eventful day, so it’s moderately possible you may have missed the alarming news that some shady Mafia-backed hedge fund or such has apparently funded these irresponsible and morally-suspect chancers (last seen shilling on air for literally Vladimir Putin and BBC Scotland, in that order) to produce an all-new series of scurrilous and dubious fact-grubbing for some inexplicable reason.
We have alerted the appropriate authorities. For safety, remain in your homes.
We might take a holiday 220
Posted on
June 14, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because the World Cup starts today, and with these guys doing our job for us, we’re not really sure we need to be here.
Today In Parliament 413
Posted on
June 13, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
What happened at PMQs this afternoon:
As you can see, the Speaker offers Ian Blackford MP, who was protesting about last night’s silencing of Scottish MPs, a choice of when to hold a vote under Parliamentary standing orders, but then improperly refuses his choice and orders Blackford from the chamber, at which point the rest of the SNP’s MPs followed him.
