We have to give Jim Murphy credit – on this week’s Sunday Politics he started off with the subtle, misleading but technically-accurate version of Labour’s line about the “biggest party forming the government”, which involves making the true but irrelevant observation that in the past it’s usually been the case. (Mainly because UK elections almost always give the biggest party a comfortable majority.)
But it only took a couple of minutes of questioning for the Scottish branch manager to lose his cool and resort to the comprehensively debunked flat-out lie again.
We thought you’d enjoy this clip from this morning’s Andrew Marr Show, readers. It came after a very sensible interview, in which Salmond had calmly and reasonably laid out the SNP’s view on events should there be a hung parliament this May with the former First Minister’s party holding the balance of power.
Tory minister Anna Soubry seems to be experiencing a degree of regret about having begged Scots to stay in the UK. The body language says as much as the words.
The Daily Record, still smarting from the humiliation of being forced to very quietly admit it told its readers a £20 billion lie about the Smith Commission late last year, has been in a demented overdrive trying to provoke Yes/SNP supporters this week.
It started on Tuesday with an echo of the paper’s infamous “Vow” cover, clearly aimed at winding up its detractors but which passed without much comment as social media users merely raised a brief weary eyebrow and got on with their day. But then the Record started turning up the volume.
Sometimes the UK media is so soul-crushingly moronic, readers, that it’s hard to get out of bed in the morning. Nevertheless, we’re pretty sure we haven’t nodded off and woken up in 2017, so today’s papers must be even more idiotic than usual.
Alert followers of our Twitter account will already know this, but we figured we better tell everyone else too. Wings now has a handy little app for Android mobile phones and tablets. Knocked up by a kind reader, it’s nothing more than the website with the addition of automatic notifications every time there’s a new post, so you need never miss an article. You can download it for free by clicking the image.
However, in the light of our wildly successful fundraiser, a more full-featured (but still free) app for both Android and iOS is now high on our priorities list. So we’d like to know what you’d want to see in it.
Mark Beggan on The Final Robbery: “If only the Muppets had been investigated as much as Mr Farage. This would never have happened. This would never…” May 25, 17:07
Mark Beggan on The Final Robbery: “Ok @Fakename. Never by a second hand car.” May 25, 17:05
100%Yes on The Final Robbery: “Joanna Cherry has called for John Swinney to be replaced as Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the SNP. Swinney…” May 25, 17:04
Gordy on The Final Robbery: “Perhaps he fancies being bummed senseless in the showers in the bar L” May 25, 16:57
agentx on The Final Robbery: ““Lynsey Bews BBC Scotland political correspondent The list of items bought by Murrell also includes DVDs of the first few…” May 25, 16:50
sam on The Final Robbery: “Yes, fat finger. He began embezzling in August 2010, as far as the charges made show,. I was curious that…” May 25, 16:50
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100%Yes on The Final Robbery: “Both my wife and I regularly donated to SNP and Indyref2.” May 25, 16:49
Effijy on The Final Robbery: “The marital home must be worth about £450,000 so he would get half of the equity. If the mobile home…” May 25, 16:48
Ex President Xiden on The Final Robbery: “Nicola Sturgeon, John Swinney, Colin Beattie, Kirsten Oswald, Murray Foote, David Leask, Tom Gordon, Mike Russell, Callum Steele, Pete Wishart,…” May 25, 16:46
Alf Baird on The Final Robbery: “Well, postcolonial theory (Fanon) warns us that a dominant national party elite that has been ‘co-opted by colonialism’ quickly opts…” May 25, 16:46
Insider on The Final Robbery: “Mark Beggan says: 25 May, 2026 at 4:39 pm “The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out…” May 25, 16:43
Al-Stuart on The Final Robbery: “. Seriously well done on your forensic research Stu., I see that the Scot-Grifts-Cash chancer Jimmy The Crowdfund Weaver is…” May 25, 16:42
Insider on The Final Robbery: ““Mickey Mouse First Minister Mickey Mouse Governing Party Mickey Mouse Parliament Mickey Mouse Judiciary Overall… A big black rat infested…” May 25, 16:41
Mark Beggan on The Final Robbery: ““The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out but it ain’t going anywhere…”” May 25, 16:39
agentx on The Final Robbery: “Nemisis Benn says:Jeremy Thorpe admitting all sorts of things under oath knowing that he would be immune from future prosecution…” May 25, 16:32
Al-Stuart on The Final Robbery: “. Seriously well done on your forensic research Stu., I see that the Scot-Grifts-Cash chancer Jimmy The Crowdfund Weaver is…” May 25, 16:30
agentx on The Final Robbery: ““The 18 June polls in Aberdeen South and Arbroath and Broughty Ferry have been triggered after the two MPs in…” May 25, 16:28
Blackhack on The Final Robbery: “I’m positive that the money spent in Estee Lauder Cosmetics, and Shetland Jewellery were not for him…. So should she…” May 25, 16:26
Jon Drummond on The Final Robbery: “Lying grifting charlatan bastards. Everyone one of the Scottish Nonce Party and those who follow them; may they rot in…” May 25, 16:19
Young Lochinvar on The Final Robbery: “So where is the £600,000 raised by public donation for independence? Will we ever know?” May 25, 16:16
Frank Gillougley on The Final Robbery: “What I find unbelievable is how did he think that he’d get away with it? What on earth was he…” May 25, 16:15
robertkknight on The Final Robbery: “Mickey Mouse First Minister Mickey Mouse Governing Party Mickey Mouse Parliament Mickey Mouse Judiciary Overall… A big black rat infested…” May 25, 15:59
factchecker on The Final Robbery: “The BBC reports “Murrell’s clothing purchases included £75.55 on a men’s “slouch pouch onesie”.”. I don’t even want to think…” May 25, 15:56
Young Lochinvar on The Final Robbery: “What by election?” May 25, 15:55
Ian Smith on The Final Robbery: “I almost fell off my chair the other week when I saw Colin Beattie getting reelected. Criminal or off the…” May 25, 15:55
Owen Mullions on The Final Robbery: “The mere sight of that narcissist swanning about on holiday boils my piss. Even now the cultists are sending her…” May 25, 15:50
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