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.
sarah on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “@ sam: interesting stuff re Barnett and Caithness. Thanks for posting.” Aug 25, 16:53
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Over the period 2010 to 2019 austerity cuts led to a reduction of about £540 billion. Local government funding and…” Aug 25, 16:43
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “@Sam – the funding received under the Barnett formula is consolidated though, so it’s up to the Scottish Government how…” Aug 25, 15:29
James on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “But Scotland will still be artificially ‘poor’. All part of the Onion dividend.” Aug 25, 14:46
Alf Baird on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““How did the imperial UK construct prove its immorality yesterday?” So many examples, Hatey, you’re obviously not paying attention to…” Aug 25, 14:34
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “https://caithness-business.co.uk/article/32159 “What a needs?based formula actually means A needs?based formula allocates funding according to measurable indicators of need, not just…” Aug 25, 14:23
Captain Caveman on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““That it?” I’m betting that’s a phrase you’ve heard quite often.” Aug 25, 13:25
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Neither of us can say with truth if the Formula meets the needs of Scotland. Here is the abstract from…” Aug 25, 12:37
James on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Jappy; “As a civil servant in London in the 1960s, and being part of the establishment, I always accepted the…” Aug 25, 12:34
James on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “As I posted earlier. “Disingenuous Adrian”. But hey, worth a try, champ.” Aug 25, 12:31
Spartan 117 on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh, as a favourite band of mine sang back in 1991. Zero understanding of the world…” Aug 25, 12:16
gm on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Swinney was warned, by trained honest people, that the Smith Commission was a miserable effort at containment, nothing more and…” Aug 25, 12:00
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Actually James, it’s you trying to post in “scotch”, by which I mean the incoherent meaningless ramblings of someone who…” Aug 25, 11:21
Captain Caveman on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “”Aw, Adrian’s trying to post in Scotch” Wait, what? “Adrian” (I think you meant Aidan) is trying to post in…” Aug 25, 11:06
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “That’s absolutely right Sam, and one of Joel Barnett’s main criticism is that Scotland’s advantage was essentially baked into the…” Aug 25, 11:06
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “I’m gonna refute that any plausible Scot ever refers to himself as Scotch. And I’m gonna question why you slipped…” Aug 25, 10:55
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Caithness Business Index “It is based on outdated population data The population share used in the formula is updated only…” Aug 25, 10:53
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““Scotland’s energy prices are certainly the highest among all the energy-rich nations” But then you have to define “nation”, Alf.…” Aug 25, 10:50
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Barnett thought his Formula was “grossly unfair” due to inequalities in public spending. He thought it would be a temporary…” Aug 25, 10:48
James on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Aw, Adrian’s trying to post in Scotch. Bless. Give it up. petal.” Aug 25, 10:40
James on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “We need a unionist troll, quick; post something disingenuous to refute that “100%Yes” post above, in case any Scotch get…” Aug 25, 10:36
Alf Baird on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““Scotland hasn’t got the highest energy prices in the world” We’ve been though this before Hatey yet you still appear…” Aug 25, 10:31
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Good post, Jay. Now, inch yourself to the very edge of the precipice, look boldly over the vertiginous, sheer drop,…” Aug 25, 10:28
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Barnett Formula according to Caithness Business Index 1. It ignores Scotland’s needs The formula does not consider:Rurality; Island geography; Higher…” Aug 25, 10:26
Hatey McHateface on Before Action: “Thought you were already done. But I was wrong – you’re back again. Seemingly you want a Block function alongside…” Aug 25, 10:20
Jay on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Effijy, you suggest that the SNP people making the fish and chips video have played into Unionist hands but you…” Aug 25, 10:06
WhoRattledYourCage on Before Action: “Of course I knew you would reply. You reply to EVERYTHING, morning, noon, and nightmare. Everything-replier is your shut-in self-appointed…” Aug 25, 09:47
