Tory Cabinet visits Scotland 63
Posted on
February 25, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE:
Bad news rapidly improves 112
Posted on
February 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A story from Reuters tonight:
Ooft. How big is this majority of the chairmen of the 100 leading companies, then?
Woah there! 65% of 32? Isn’t that, um, 21? That’s not really a “majority” of 100, is it? And while we’re here, how many of the chairmen of FTSE 100 companies have a vote in the Scottish independence referendum anyway? We have a strong suspicion that the effective sample in this survey might actually have been zero.
Scottish Labour in one tweet 122
Posted on
February 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We still don’t get it 170
Posted on
February 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you were wondering why we hadn’t written about today’s oil-industry shenanigans yet, it’s because we’ve been scratching our heads for hours trying to work out what the heck David Cameron thought it was he was proving on the Cabinet’s trip to Aberdeen.
Sadly, we’re still none the wiser.
We’ll never have that recipe again 89
Posted on
February 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A remarkable insight into how Scottish Labour MPs see the people of Scotland, and the future that awaits us after a No vote, from an article posted on Labour Uncut today:
Hear that, people of Scotland? For even considering taking control of your own affairs like adults, Scottish Labour (ironically) thinks you’re behaving like stupid kids too dumb to come in out of the rain. Mm, feel the respect from your representatives.
The remedial class 45
Posted on
February 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve written often about the contempt with which both the No campaign and the media regards voters, particularly in respect of their willingness to tell them even the most insultingly transparent lies in the assumption they’ll be swallowed anyway.
Allan Massie in today’s Telegraph may have set a new all-time record, though.
A developing theme 223
Posted on
February 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Wrong number 123
Posted on
February 23, 2014 by
Andrew Leslie
To cut a long story short, Wings readers, it turns out that by a freakish coincidence I have a fax number only one digit different to that of Alistair Darling’s constituency office. Attached below is a document I unexpectedly found in my in-tray this evening.
The next time 43
Posted on
February 23, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
… someone from the No campaign or a right-wing newspaper tries to tell you that Scotland’s attitudes to the EU aren’t actually very different to those in the rest of the UK, just show them this striking graphic and tell them to shush.
(And don’t take any “Well then we’d have to join the Euro!” cobblers either.)
If we choose to remain in the UK and the UK has a referendum on EU membership (which it’s highly likely to), there isn’t a whole lot of doubt about the outcome. There’s only one way to make sure Scotland stays in Europe. Businesspeople planning a No vote because they fear “uncertainty” might want to have a wee think about that.
Quoted for partial truth 95
Posted on
February 23, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A Radio 4 “Point Of View” programme by the writer and philosopher Roger Scruton on Friday evening attracted quite a lot of social-media ire from nationalists. We can only assume they were so angered by a few crass factual errors (“The Scottish economy is subsidised by the English”) and Dr Scruton’s rather patrician manner that they didn’t bother to listen all the way to the end.
We can’t say we find anything there to disagree with. After some of the cross-border ugliness and bad feeling that’s been whipped up by the actions of Unionists lately, the only outcome of the referendum that will allow the people of Scotland and England to regard each other with dignity and mutual respect in the future is a Yes vote. Crawling pathetically back to London with our tail between our legs won’t do it.
Convergence keeps converging 150
Posted on
February 23, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
(An update on this post.)
If the next Ipsos MORI poll shows a significant drop in the No lead, we can probably call that definitive. The days of the No camp being 30+ points ahead seem to be well and truly over. Five out of the seven British Polling Council members polling on the independence referendum now put the required swing for Yes at just 5-6%. Looks like Wings pollsters Panelbase were at the cutting edge again after all.
Here we go again 114
Posted on
February 23, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
To save time, just take everything we said last week and repeat.
Perhaps the most telling thing, though, about this week’s edition of what now appears to be the BBC’s official late-night No-campaign propaganda slot is that Iain Martin used to be the editor of the Scotsman. Readers can draw their own conclusions.
