Kezia Dugdale Fact Check, Part 677 383
Posted on
December 01, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s Kezia Dugdale at FMQs today.
Just for fun, let’s do the sums again, shall we?
The passing of sentence 200
Posted on
November 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Prime Minister of the UK, whose party has one MP in Scotland, officially tells the Commons that she doesn’t believe people on benefits should be able to survive.
Happy St Andrews’ Day, readers.
The patron saint of North Britain 132
Posted on
November 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Men without honour 315
Posted on
November 29, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
I wasn’t going to mention this on the site because it’s basically a personal matter, but as most readers don’t use Twitter or Facebook it probably ought to be briefly filed for the record, given the amount of media coverage there’s been.
It won’t take long.
Hitler elected again 285
Posted on
November 28, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Paul Nuttall (pictured below playing “Eddie Hitler” in the BBC sitcom “Bottom”) has just been elected by a landslide as the new leader of UKIP.
We’ve never felt more British, frankly.
What they expect you to believe 309
Posted on
November 25, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For some reason the Unionist community has this week been turning the bullhorn up to maximum on the subject of pensions. Most likely provoked by the publication of Dr Craig Dalzell’s fascinating “Beyond GERS”, the usual suspects have returned to the scaremongering tactics deployed during the indyref, attempting to terrorise the elderly with blood-curdling threats of destitution once again.
It’s a bewildering approach, given that the situation regarding pensions is one of the few around independence about which there is known certainty. The UK government already pays the state pension to millions of people outside the UK, under rules which would apply in exactly the same way if Scotland became a “foreign” country.
But just for fun, let’s look at exactly what the situation would be in the monumentally implausible event that Blair McDougall was telling the truth for once.
Out of the cave 223
Posted on
November 24, 2016 by
Dr Craig Dalzell
Readers of this site will be well aware of the many failings and limitations of GERS, aka Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland – the document which serves as the informal accounts of a devolved Scotland but tells us next to nothing about the finances of an independent Scotland, as noted just a few weeks ago by the impartial multinational auditors Deloitte.
An article I produced this week for the Common Weal White Paper Project – Beyond GERS – has generated much critical response from Unionists, though some of it has at least been constructive.
Spurred on by the mention of the article by David Torrance in Monday’s Herald, in a column containing several serious inaccuracies, I’ve seen various misunderstandings and misconceptions about it which ought to be addressed.
The light at the end of the tunnel 128
Posted on
November 24, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We haven’t dignified the current media-imagined “crisis” in Scotland’s railways with coverage thus far, for obvious reasons, but it seemed worth briefly letting someone much better qualified to comment than us bring some perspective to the issue.
(From today’s Herald. Click to enlarge.)
Readers might well feel justified in wondering why it wasn’t until someone took it upon themselves to go to the trouble of writing to a newspaper, after days of sustained press hysteria, that some sane and balanced commentary on the situation appeared. But then again, if Mr Docherty’s expert opinion had been sought in the first place, we wouldn’t have been able to have a solid week of “SNP BAD” all over the airwaves.
The Prophecies 261
Posted on
November 23, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
One of the videos below is a genuine “Better Together” campaign broadcast, pulled from TV at the last minute (despite costing £50,000 to make) and today revealed by Buzzfeed. The other is a spoof we made in June 2014.
Good luck figuring out which is the real one, folks.
The news we’ve all been waiting for 247
Posted on
November 22, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Namely, that of a 100%-certain victory in indyref 2:
We might take the rest of the day off to celebrate.
