The human shield 66
Posted on
June 03, 2017 by
Chris Cairns
The personality crisis 453
Posted on
June 01, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re being told that this Tory leaflet, where Stephanie Smith is described as “Ruth Davidson’s candidate” for Edinburgh South, is standard across the whole country.
Which is unfortunate timing.
Not too shabby 103
Posted on
June 01, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…for one idiot and an occasional cartoonist talking to a country of only 4m adults.
And one of us DOESN’T EVEN LIVE THERE!!!!!
There is nothing you can do 294
Posted on
May 31, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…that will satisfy the Unionist parties. Last night Ruth Davidson told STV viewers that even getting more than 50% of the vote in a general election wouldn’t give the SNP a mandate to pursue their manifesto policies.
She was echoing the words of Kezia Dugdale just over a year ago:
So that’s clear. Davidson has reversed her previous view. There is now no peaceful democratic avenue by which the people of Scotland could express the wish for a second referendum which the two main Unionist parties would accept. They have EXPLICITLY said, in full public view, that they would reject any democratic mandate.
And that’s frightening.
We’ve thought of a way 130
Posted on
May 30, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
“It couldn’t be clearer than that” was Kezia Dugdale’s assertion tonight on the subject of whether a Labour UK government would block a second independence referendum, during her “Ask The Leader” interview with the BBC’s Glenn Campbell.
She’d insisted explicitly several times that a Jeremy Corbyn administration WOULD block a new indyref, even after being shown a video clip of Corbyn from earlier in the day saying he wouldn’t, and she repeatedly urged readers not to listen to the party’s leader and to instead go and look at the Labour manifesto.
So we did.
Scottish Labour indyref clarity grows 90
Posted on
May 30, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Today’s Daily Record has a swipe at Jeremy Corbyn for, well, let’s call them “mixed messages” over a second independence referendum. It suggests his Scottish branch manager Kezia Dugdale would have “her head in her hands” over his latest comments, which is a bit rich considering Dugdale’s own history on the subject.
And since her headline boast when she took over as leader of the North British office was that people would know exactly what Labour stood for (and indeed she spent all of the weekend’s keynote Sunday Politics interview listing all the things she’d been very very clear about), we thought we’d have a recap and see how that was going.
Sub-topical analysis 138
Posted on
May 30, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Apologies in advance about this, folks, but it’s driving us mad. We got into a Twitter argument with some Tory balloon last night and this morning, and to cut a long story short it got us looking at the 1951 UK general election result.
History records it as a Tory majority, securing just over half of the Parliamentary seats (321 of 625) and forming the government under Winston Churchill despite narrowly losing the popular vote to Labour (48% to 48.8%).
But if you examine the result in the House Of Commons Library the numbers don’t add up, and we can’t figure out why.
Fleeing England for their lives 196
Posted on
May 29, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From the Victoria Derbyshire show today in Dunstable.
“This election is life or death for us.”
The Oxford University research she’s talking about, and the Napier and Heriot-Watt Universities research into the mental health impact of Work Capability Assessments.
Once in a lifetime 205
Posted on
May 28, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Tremendous news for the rest of Scotland’s football clubs as Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers promises never to win the treble unbeaten again, even if his side score more goals than the other team in all their matches.
That’s how it works, right?
The right way to go for Scotland 91
Posted on
May 27, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
No.13: James, Aberdeenshire.
Once in a generation 124
Posted on
May 27, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…is roughly how often Aberdeen get to the final of the Scottish Cup these days. The last time was 17 years ago – a tournament which started in the last century and ended the year Rangers started paying their players with EBTs – when SFA rules meant that they had to play almost the entire game without a recognised goalkeeper.
(A tackle in the third minute broke veteran custodian Jim Leighton’s jaw, and because you were only allowed three players on the subs bench the Dons had no backup No.1 and had to put striker Robbie Winters between the sticks, with a predictable outcome. Leighton never played professional football again.)
In politics, Labour were only one year into the first ever administration of the modern Scottish Parliament, and still in the first term of Tony Blair’s rule at Westminster. The idea of the SNP winning an election, let alone holding an independence referendum, was the preserve of mad fantasists.
And the last time the Pittodrie side actually won the trophy was 27 years back, which is so long ago that most of Hampden was still open to the elements.
Still, it would be weird if we got to the final again next year and some of the Aberdeen support refused to go on the grounds that the matter of who was the best cup football team in Scotland had been settled forever today.
Or if Celtic won but had fielded an ineligible player and the SFA ordered a replay, but the Dons declined to take part because they’d played too many finals recently.
Just saying.
#COYR
Ruth Davidson’s Immigration Hokey Cokey 197
Posted on
May 26, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
You want the immigrants in:
You want the immigrants out:
You want the immigrants around the same, but shaken all about:
(Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland, 26 May 2017)
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You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around:
And that’s what Ruth is all about. Oy!
