The entire Scottish media has today leapt like starving dogs at a tin of Chappie on a new “study” by right-wing flag-crazed imperialist nutjobs T***e I*****s, which claims to prove that an independent Scotland would have a BLACK HOLE!!! of infinity squillion pounds and all the crops would wither in the fields and stamps would be £5000 each and we’d be invaded by space monsters and all the usual stuff you’d expect.
(In all seriousness for a moment, it genuinely tries to flog the “fiscal transfer” myth and the “Scotland would have to join the Euro” myth and a bunch of other Better Together Greatest Hits that were utterly debunked old hat half a decade ago, and in order to make its economic case work it basically pretends that Brexit isn’t happening.)
But at the bottom of its article the New Statesman offers to link its readers to the full extent of the author’s professional economic expertise and well-argued case, and in fairness if you click the link they do exactly that.
Credit where due, it’s an uncanny likeness of the gloomy wee fella.
Labour MP Stella Creasy, explaining to Sarah Smith on today’s Sunday Politics why she backs a so-called “People’s Vote” on Brexit because voters should have the right to change their mind about a referendum if circumstances change.
The Daily Record’s politics lead story today is a slightly underwhelming poll that shows 41% of Scots believe the Tories are carrying out a power grab against the Scottish Parliament, against 34% who think they aren’t (and 25% who have no idea).
Which seems a good time to round up the last results of our own most recent poll, and some slightly disturbing revelations about the Scottish public’s grasp of devolution.
Especially your later stuff. You are the obvious natural successor to those other great leaders, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush – the perfect combination of dodgy and thick. You’ve got it all.
Since the first day of your tangeroid slithering into Barack’s old gaff, you’ve gone from strength to strength. I thought building a thousand mile wall to stop people escaping would be your greatest triumph. But putting kids in cages? Genius.
Most of Scottish Twitter has been enjoying itself greatly for the last few hours after England’s exit from the World Cup, but scattered in amongst the amusing memes has been a fair amount of angst about victors Croatia – a nation of 4 million people – being in the final when Scotland once again failed to qualify.
And while we’ll more than happily listen to any amount of criticism of the unbelievably incompetent, hapless clowns who’ve been in charge of the SFA/SPL/SPFL for the last several decades, that judgement is a bit harsh on the players and coaches and the nation as a whole. Because there really hasn’t been much in it.
Scotland’s qualification for World Cup 2018 hinged and ultimately faltered on a split second and a single badly-chosen pass in stoppage time.
Northcode on A Matter Of Declinature: “Here, AI Dan, I’ll help you out because you appear to be unable to do your own research and lack…” Jul 16, 18:24
Dan on A Matter Of Declinature: “4 min vid of David Davis speech in House of Commons earlier today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBTqX5V3ccQ” Jul 16, 18:22
Hatey McHateface on A Matter Of Declinature: “If there be two crowns and kingdoms, Alf, perhaps we could help things along by throwing every republican out of…” Jul 16, 18:18
Northcode on A Matter Of Declinature: ““… I am going to stick my neck out and say you are lying…” Good… that will make it easier…” Jul 16, 18:15
Aidan on A Matter Of Declinature: “She is rattled, that’s very clear! I wonder what scares her, the general reputational damage, the possibility that the COPFS…” Jul 16, 18:14
Hatey McHateface on A Matter Of Declinature: “They’re the ones built like brick shithouses.” Jul 16, 18:08
twathater on A Matter Of Declinature: “Thanks Stuart for undertaking this onerous compilation of legal advice and endless FOI requests in an effort to bring sense…” Jul 16, 18:04
Hatey McHateface on A Matter Of Declinature: “If you’re worried about being torn apart, Northy, binder twine and duct tape are your friends.” Jul 16, 18:03
Hatey McHateface on The Invisible Rabbit: “Aye. Right. Everybody waiting for the march on Hollyrood to impeach ScotGov has had to put their lives on hold.” Jul 16, 17:59
100%Yes on A Matter Of Declinature: “We done to Mr Davis, Sturgeon “The fact that he hides like a coward behind the legal privilege of Westminster…” Jul 16, 17:44
Aidan on A Matter Of Declinature: “@Northcode – again, please provide some evidence, specifically that Robert Black KC believes the union is a constitutional (by which…” Jul 16, 17:30
Northcode on A Matter Of Declinature: “Robert Black KC has repeatedly and explicitly stated that he believes Scotland is not in a real union with England.…” Jul 16, 17:18
Young Lochinvar on A Matter Of Declinature: “Got to say I find all this Anne Widdecombe stuff totally bizarre. I can’t be the only one that saw…” Jul 16, 16:51
James Barr Gardner on A Matter Of Declinature: “Due to exceptional work done in unraveling the Bourach of the SNP Financial web and intrigues can “We” the congregation…” Jul 16, 16:39
Mungo Armstrong on A Matter Of Declinature: “https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/16559310/nicola-sturgeon-david-davis-alex-salmond-murrell/” Jul 16, 16:36
Aidan on A Matter Of Declinature: “Do you have any evidence that Professor Robert Black KC believes there “isn’t a union”, I have read his essay…” Jul 16, 16:23
Aidan on The Invisible Rabbit: ““Heather” Herbert (friend of the site) has been arrested and charged.” Jul 16, 15:55
Alf Baird on A Matter Of Declinature: ““Roddy Dunlop has also given his view” Professor Robert Black believed for almost 60 years that there was a ‘union’…” Jul 16, 15:52
Northcode on A Matter Of Declinature: “You express a fundamental truism by quoting Cesaire’s observation, Alf. An observation similarly described, though fictionalised, by George Orwell. Colonial…” Jul 16, 15:42
Dan on A Matter Of Declinature: “@Aidan Be braw if you could have provided a link (preferably to an alternative archived page link of said thread…” Jul 16, 15:38
Andy Wiltshire on A Matter Of Declinature: “He only does it in order to get off.” Jul 16, 15:00
Tinto Chiel on Off-topic: “Think it’s warm enough for some swamp rock from these Glasgow Bad Boys: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlrUzAmKO1Y BTW, in the chorus, it’s not…” Jul 16, 14:40
McDuff on A Matter Of Declinature: “Excellent stuff rev. Let right be done. I suspect this letter may produce a brown stain in certain quarters.” Jul 16, 14:14
Andrew scott on A Matter Of Declinature: “I see that “heather” the aberdeen uni employee has been charged by the police over HIS disgusting post about widdecombe…” Jul 16, 14:09
Aidan on A Matter Of Declinature: “Of course all of these issues have been determined, at length, by the English and Scottish courts and as everyone…” Jul 16, 13:32
SilentMajority on A Matter Of Declinature: “What I am looking forward to is how the media will describe ‘him’…will ‘he’ be described as:- a/ she/her b/…” Jul 16, 13:30
Mark Beggan on A Matter Of Declinature: “Cesaire!!? Grow up. Why do you never mention Transvestites? Not once in all your rhetoric do you even touch on…” Jul 16, 12:53
Mark Beggan on A Matter Of Declinature: ““structural prostitutes” Do tell Northy. So that’s what you get up to when your not saving Scotland with your in…” Jul 16, 12:49
Willie on A Matter Of Declinature: “The Police are institutionally corrupt No one, and zi mean no one can have any confidence in them. From people…” Jul 16, 12:37
