Better Together leaked posters #8 33
Posted on
June 26, 2012 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Better Together leaked posters #3 2
Posted on
June 26, 2012 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
EXCLUSIVE! Keen-eyed viewers will have noted that our shadowy agents buried deep in the heart of the No camp have already managed to bring you two sneak previews of the Better Together" campaign posters which will soon be appearing on lamp-posts, walls and billboards all across Scotland to explain the benefits of unity. We're delighted to reveal today that they've smuggled several more out of No HQ under cover of darkness, enabling us to help you be prepared for the debate. Here's the first.
More on the way throughout the day.
The end of the day 8
Posted on
June 25, 2012 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Inverness Caley Thistle, Aberdeen and St Johnstone join Hearts, Hibs and Dundee United in announcing their intention to vote “No to newco”. Police launch criminal investigation into Craig Whyte’s purchase of the club. Steven Whittaker and Steven Naismith walk away, following Sone Aluko and Rhys McCabe. Reports from the well-informed Alex Thomson of Channel 4 that Charles Green’s consortium is in financial trouble and looking to sell off Sevco 5088 aka the newco Rangers, amid ongoing doubts and speculation about their banking provisions.
And that’s just in the last 24 hours. What’s coming tomorrow?
Revealed at last: the positive case 53
Posted on
June 25, 2012 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Attentive readers will know that here at Wings Over Scotland we’ve been exhaustively detailing the 32-year trailer campaign for the fabled “positive case for the Union“. Well, despite our cynicism it’s finally here – the “Better Together” website, launched today, has a whole page devoted to describing the positive case (or as they’d have it, the “+ve” case, which the page URL mischievously translates to “-ve”) in detail.
Stand by to be blown away.
We’re confused again 13
Posted on
June 24, 2012 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Can anyone help reconcile these two facts for us?
“Seventy-one per cent of people trust the Scottish Government to act in Scotland’s best interests (up from 61 per cent in 2010), compared to just 18 per cent who trust the UK Government (down from 35 per cent in 2007).“
“The number of people prepared to support Scottish independence is falling substantially, new polling suggests. A Mori Scotland poll found just 35% said they would vote ‘yes’ to independence north of the border, compared to 55% saying ‘no’.“
It’s not a rhetorical question. We don’t get it.
A peek behind the curtain 7
Posted on
June 24, 2012 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
After last weekend’s bizarre time-travelling “exclusive”, this weekend’s Sunday Herald has thrown up another little curiosity. A story in the lead section of the paper’s website today trumpets the latest positive argument from the Unionist camp – that mortgage rates will soar in an independent Scotland, as alleged by Danny Alexander.
The piece, penned by Tom Gordon, is headlined accordingly – “Alexander claims: yes to independence could mean mortgage rise”. What’s interesting, though, is a little piece of text that seems to have been left in by accident at the bottom of the page.
It appears to be a discarded alternative headline for the same article, given that the fourth paragraph cites “the SNP Government” dismissing Alexander’s claims as scare stories. (We did check by Googling to see if the headline had appeared on a completely different Herald piece, but turned up nothing.)
It’s quite instructive to see the paper’s thought processes laid bare. “Scottish Government Slam Scare Tactics” is a positive message from the SNP’s point of view, as it would portray them standing up against Unionist fearmongering.
The headline used instead is the complete opposite – it actually IS Unionist fearmongering, designed to produce an instinctively frightened reaction in the reader, by planting in his/her mind the image of a crippling rise in the cost of living and associating it with a Yes vote (no matter what the feature then goes on to say).
We just thought we’d point it out.
Top 10 posts, 17th-23rd June 2012 1
Posted on
June 24, 2012 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In case you’re joining us late, the most-read WingsLand posts of the last seven days.
URGENT: HELP NEEDED
Labour savages opposition for not speaking out against Labour government.
Storm weathered, minor damage
Opinion poll surprises no-one.
(Don’t) stand by me
Labour MSP Michael McMahon backs hastily away from a lie at FMQs.
No-one here gets out alive
Why Rangers really are doomed this time.
The time machine
The Herald bizarrely repeats a six-month-old story as a new “exclusive”.
Let’s just get this straight
Is everyone in the SPL going to boycott everyone else next season?
A quick quiz
The Unionists’ latest attempt to rig the referendum.
The SPL’s real suicide pact
How Rangers fans might be the ones who kill their own club.
The difference between words and talking
Guest piece by Sue Lyons on the need for honest debate.
Lamont uncertain about uncertainty
Labour “leader” fails to follow her script.
