This is so freaky I had to check they weren’t quoting each other. It’s like a game show.
Just a couple of nice well-brought-up Hutchesons’ Grammar boys in smart suits, there, thinking the same, speaking the same, saying the same, and angling for the same job. (Which one of them now has, and the other may have soon.)
If there’s ever been a (branch office of a) political party that could somehow manage to blow it in Scotland against the burning trainwreck in a ditch full of sewage that is the SNP right now, it’s definitely Anas Sarwar’s hapless Scottish Labour.
Honestly, this stuff is comedy gold. But in a winner-takes-all dumb-off with Humza Yousaf’s SNP, it’s way too close to call.
One year ago today, Nicola Sturgeon suddenly resigned as First Minister. And what a spectacular 12 months it’s been for the Yes movement since her departure.
As Twitter followers will have noticed, we’ve been busy this week with an extensive remodelling of Wings HQ, which involved the main computer being out of commission for several days while the office was basically torn down and rebuilt from scratch. (It seemed a good time to do it, given that there’s nothing remotely of interest happening in Scottish politics.)
Unfortunately the lack of activity on the site caused the comments on the last post to degenerate into the most wretched playground shrieking match, so let’s see if we can’t distract the children and talk about something else for a bit.
Particularly alert observers will have noted that Kezia Dugdale, the most spectacularly inept and unsuccessful Scottish political leader in history, this week demitted her role as Director of the John Smith Centre, which she was handed as an incentive to quit Scottish Labour after dragging it to 14% in the opinion polls.
We long ago ran out of words to express the magnitude of the contempt in which the SNP now hold the people of Scotland. Which is unfortunate, because this probably calls for the invention of a whole new scale.
Shall we go through just a few of the more crassly insulting holes in this pitiful excuse for a cover story, just to pass the time while we wait for the former First Minister to appear before the COVID inquiry? We don’t know about you, but we’ve got nothing better to do.
Southernbystander on Shield Of The Phantom: “I would recommend the first two essays actually – the one by McGinn is as you would expect a bit…” Feb 3, 20:53
Confused on The Marshalling Plan: “one way Farage could boost support for reform would be to toughen up the stance on immigration; the voters would…” Feb 3, 20:48
Confused on The Marshalling Plan: “all these little flamboyant screeds I have put together about farage – its not me “making shit up” with a…” Feb 3, 20:45
Confused on The Marshalling Plan: “oil and gas was a disaster for Scotland as it allowed the thatcherite neoliberal wrecking ball to be applied EVERYONE…” Feb 3, 20:44
Willie on The Marshalling Plan: “Just been reading details of the emails between? Mandelson and Epstein during the Gordon Brown years. Mandelson’s interactions were not…” Feb 3, 20:40
Alf Baird on The Marshalling Plan: “The LS mandate offered is pretty clear and unambiguous, and fundamentally different to the SNP’s continued neutrality on independence. Voting…” Feb 3, 20:11
Skip_NC on The Marshalling Plan: “Hatey, next time you open your mouth, put some food in it. It’s better than letting your belly rumble.” Feb 3, 19:41
Skip_NC on The Marshalling Plan: “I agree that ISP is pro-independence but why on earth do you think Alba is not?” Feb 3, 19:39
Colin Alexander on The Marshalling Plan: “Alf Baird So, it’s a plebiscite: Aye or no to independence? So, they aren’t seeking election to the gravy train…” Feb 3, 19:38
Duncan Strachan on The Marshalling Plan: “Wally anither exactly. Destroy the ballot. Make sure we do.” Feb 3, 19:33
Duncan Strachan on The Marshalling Plan: “Effijy Exactly. vote reform? F off, vote Unionist nup. Vote that dog swiny, forget it. Go and destroy the constituency…” Feb 3, 19:25
Duncan Strachan on The Marshalling Plan: “Aye.I refuse to vote for that swiny. He is the worst thing to happen to Scotland. I will be destroying…” Feb 3, 19:14
Alf Baird on The Marshalling Plan: “Polls are intentionally excluding the Liberate Scotland alliance parties in their offer of options to surveyed voters. If independence voters…” Feb 3, 17:52
PC Foster on The Marshalling Plan: “sam says: In moving towards Scottish independence is it better to have a Reform government in UK/England and weak/no Reform…” Feb 3, 17:27
Hatey McHateface on The Marshalling Plan: “@Skip_NC The way I see it, the establishment of the wee pretendy parliament as a device to sink Indy was…” Feb 3, 14:08
Hatey McHateface on The Marshalling Plan: ““is it better to have a Reform government in UK/England and weak/no Reform in Scotland?” Before we can answer that…” Feb 3, 13:49
Hatey McHateface on The Marshalling Plan: ““There isn’t one ordinary Scot who benefited from oil in Scotland” Grade 1, 100% pure, gold-plated, shite. I personally know…” Feb 3, 13:40
James Cheyne on The Marshalling Plan: “The only way to save Scotland, its resources , mineral wealth and assets is for Scotland to recognise that it…” Feb 3, 13:26
James Cheyne on The Marshalling Plan: “The only way to save Scotland, its resources , mineral wealth and assets is for Scotland to recognise that it…” Feb 3, 13:19
James Cheyne on The Marshalling Plan: “I am not daft enough to blame Alex Salmond for all the woes of Scotland, he did some good things…” Feb 3, 12:52
100%Yes on The Marshalling Plan: “There isn’t one ordinary Scot who benefited from oil in Scotland the only people to have benefited was London and…” Feb 3, 12:45
sam on The Marshalling Plan: “In moving towards Scottish independence is it better to have a Reform government in UK/England and weak/no Reform in Scotland?” Feb 3, 12:18
Colin Alexander on The Marshalling Plan: ““Let’s just remind ourselves of something Alex Salmond did, he made the Scottish parliament a parliament”. Really? How? With Trumpian…” Feb 3, 12:16
James Cheyne on The Marshalling Plan: “Alex Salmond did not make the devolved parliament in Scotland a Scottish parliament, just for clarity, It remained under the…” Feb 3, 11:15
James Cheyne on The Marshalling Plan: “Westminster own the devolved government sent to Scotland, its under their caveats and reservations in the Scotland act, The DHondt…” Feb 3, 11:02
sam on The Marshalling Plan: “https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-bannon-boasted-about-farage-ties-exchange-epstein “Newly released files show Epstein and Bannon messaging each other on 10 March 2018, arranging to meet in Paris.…” Feb 3, 10:38
Skip_NC on The Marshalling Plan: “Hatey, well yes, Reform will change things in that they will happily abolish parliament. As I have been focusing on…” Feb 3, 10:22
100%Yes on The Marshalling Plan: “I agree with you about not staying at home and I’d rather people used their vote constructively. But your forgetting…” Feb 3, 10:09
diabloandco on The Marshalling Plan: “For those who say they will stay at home for the elections , please don’t – swan in and right…” Feb 3, 10:00
