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.
When it’s grim being right 272
Posted on
February 22, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Nation speaking tunes unto nation 161
Posted on
February 22, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
SATIRE:
REALITY:
At least, we THINK we’ve got those the right way round.
A casual grenade 121
Posted on
February 22, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scotpulse poll we mentioned last night in a frankly shameful outbreak of tooting our own horn actually released two sets of data, accompanied by an odd email apologising that the survey had featured an overly wide range of questions. We don’t know if we’re going to see the others at any point, but the second one released yesterday was intriguing.
And we’re not talking about the somewhat leading preamble.
The lovebombs keep coming 135
Posted on
February 21, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s we’re-not-actually-sure-what-he-is Bob Mills earlier this evening on Radio 4’s News Quiz, hosted by Sandi Toksvig with a very quiet Fred MacAuley twisting his tartan bunnet in the corner and hoping for a pat on the head.
Whatever will they do for laughs without us?
In the clouds 238
Posted on
February 21, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Someone just forwarded us the results of a survey by STV’s polling arm Scotpulse. It’s a “wordcloud” of the sort we have on this very site (it’s over on the right hand side and down a bit, marked “Tags”), where the more significant something is the bigger its name gets printed. It pretty much speaks for itself.
You’re the ones who put the word out there, readers. It’s working. Thank you.
