The Illogical Song 194
Posted on
October 24, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Kezia Dugdale talking about her dad in today’s Scotsman:
Just a couple of things.
That happened quietly 165
Posted on
October 21, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scotland Office is unexpectedly no more.
It’s had an unannounced rebranding as “The UK Government For Scotland”.
Person swears on internet 425
Posted on
October 19, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
With permission 144
Posted on
October 16, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Timewaster wastes time 79
Posted on
October 15, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We wonder how many papers we’ll see this in tomorrow.
In chronological order 146
Posted on
October 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We hate to be picky, but aren’t these the wrong way round?
November 2014: “The Vow has been delivered, ahead of schedule.”
That’s past tense, right?
Damned if you don’t 155
Posted on
October 06, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Earlier today we made an observation about the overblown way the media has been covering the Scottish Government’s underspend of 1.3% of its budget (a figure about which the David Hume Institute today cooed approvingly “Even Mr Micawber could not budget more accurately”).
To nobody’s great amazement, Scottish Labour rentahonk Jackie Baillie – fresh from making a complete idiot of herself over the Michelle Thomson case – couldn’t resist jumping on the bandwagon.
Quite aside from the fact that it means no such thing – there’s no less money, it’s just that some of it will now be carried over and spent this year instead – we suppose the tweet does at least mean that Scottish Labour’s policy position is clear: the Scottish Government should always spend every penny of its budget. Right?
When you lose your friends 135
Posted on
September 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Yet another bad day for irony 224
Posted on
September 23, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The editor of the New Statesman just tweeted this image, trailing an interview with Jim Murphy, who alert readers may recall led Scottish Labour for a few months this year before its apocalyptic disaster of a general election campaign which saw it lose 40 of the 41 Scottish seats it won in 2010:
Oh, wait – maybe he’s trying to claim the credit for it.
At first glance 102
Posted on
September 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A story in the Scotsman tonight reports how the Scottish Parliament’s independent research body SPICE has found – contrary to long-running claims from Labour – that the Scottish Government has OVER-funded the eight-year Council Tax freeze.
And that’s all very well, but not exactly stop-the-presses stuff – nobody reading this site is going to be terribly surprised at Scottish Labour being caught out in a lie. But the party’s house newspaper the Daily Record went for a subtly different angle on the story that did manage to provoke us to raise an eyebrow.
A tale of two rallies 188
Posted on
September 19, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Many a true word 189
Posted on
August 25, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
You’d put this down as a slip of the tongue, but when it came in the middle of an extended bout of bodyswerving John Mackay’s straightforward question about a referendum on Trident, maybe Kezia Dugdale really was just saying what she meant.
