99 Red Balloons 196
Posted on
April 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The toll taken 265
Posted on
April 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On the left, Jim Murphy campaigning for the Scottish Labour leadership a few months ago (the backdrop is distinctive, placing the pic sometime last November).
On the right, Jim Murphy on STV tonight.
Don’t tell lies, readers. It drains your soul.
The spurned lover 191
Posted on
April 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Remember that lovely British solidarity you were told by Labour to vote No for?
You probably need to read this, folks.
The pessimist 146
Posted on
April 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s come awfully late, but we’ve finally got an answer to a question people have been asking Jim Murphy since last December.
In an interview with the BBC’s Gary Robertson this morning, the Scottish Labour regional manager told listeners that should he win the East Renfrewshire seat in next month’s election, he’d stay in the job for the full five-year term, but would also stand for election as a Holyrood MSP in 2016.
(Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland, 29 April 2015)
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And that raises more questions than it answers.
Moodievision: Briefs Encounter 39
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April 29, 2015 by
Greg Moodie
Greg Moodie’s Election Dissection, a compilation of splendid cartoon strips from The National, Bella Caledonia and elsewhere, is available to order now.
Questions for Jim 213
Posted on
April 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scottish Labour branch office manager Jim Murphy will be appearing on BBC Radio Scotland’s “Call Kaye” programme from 9am today, taking questions from voters as well as presenter Kaye Adams. The phone number to ring in is 0500 92 95 00.
Below are a few posers readers might like to put to Mr Murphy, because he seems to have been adept at avoiding them throughout the campaign. Feel free to reword them.
The Patriot 74
Posted on
April 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A little surprise bonus toon for you, readers.
It’s from an exhibition at the Leiper Fine Art Gallery in West George Street in Glasgow (a firm friend of the Yes movement), featuring political artwork by Wings cartoonists Chris Cairns – creator of the pic above – and Greg Moodie, along with many others, of which you can buy originals to enhance your home.
It runs until 11 May, so you should probably pop along if you’re in the vicinity. We’re not saying we’ll definitely stab you if you don’t, but why take unnecessary risks?
A recurring theme 152
Posted on
April 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s a tactical voting tool on the Telegraph website, which despite a somewhat loaded headline purports to even-handedly advise confused voters on the best course of action to take in their own constituency depending on whether they want to keep Ed Miliband or David Cameron OUT of 10 Downing Street.
We were a bit suspicious when we typed our Bath postcode in and asked to keep Cameron out, because it advised us to vote Labour even though it’s one of the safest Lib Dem seats in the country (with the Tories in 2nd) and Labour got just 3,251 votes in 2010, which is to say they’ve got absolutely no hope here.
And then we tried some Scottish seats, and things got a bit creepy.
The stupidest man in Britain 164
Posted on
April 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Firstly, we’re not sure this qualifies as “BREAKING” news:
But it’s not the Daily Record’s cub reporter that we’re talking about.
We didn’t imagine this, then 136
Posted on
April 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Waking up bleary-eyed this morning at 6.45am, we reached over to switch on Good Morning Scotland, just in time for the news headlines round-up. This is what we heard:
(Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland, 28 April 2015)
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We honestly thought in our semi-awake state we might have dreamed it.
Fury as new hospital is too amazing 136
Posted on
April 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The wheels of time grind slowly 116
Posted on
April 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re sure we’re not the only people for whom the hours are dragging and we wish the election would just hurry up and get here, but all the same we’re pretty sure that if there were 11 days left to save the UK on Sunday morning, then by Tuesday morning there should be fewer than 10 still to go.
