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And finally… #23 25

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

Better Together leaked posters #11: a special message from Ian Davidson.

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(Mole at BT HQ: "Free Scotland".)

And finally… #22 25

Posted on February 26, 2013 by

It’s old news, but someone finally dug up the actual leaflet. Click for the reason!

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If the YesScotland campaign had its wits about it, it’d be running off a million of these with this week’s news stories printed in bold on the back.

 

Last year, this year 48

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

Last year (24 June 2012, to be precise):

“Homeowners could face a £1 billion rise in mortgage payments in an independent Scotland, Treasury axeman Danny Alexander has warned.

The world’s leading credit rating agencies earlier this year warned Scotland would not be guaranteed the UK’s AAA borrowing status.”

This year:

“The UK has lost its top AAA credit rating for the first time since 1978 on expectations that growth will ‘remain sluggish over the next few years’.

The ratings agency Moody’s became the first to cut the UK from its highest rating, to Aa1. Moody’s said that the government’s debt reduction programme faced significant ‘challenges’ ahead.”

Nice to know we didn’t have to wait for independence, eh?

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Posted on February 19, 2013 by

For those of you not on Twitter. Click for full-fat glory.

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(From here, via alert reader Paul Martin.)

And finally… #20 21

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

We haven’t had anything from the Scottish Political Archive for a wee while, so in the light of today’s doom-mongering about the dangers of aggressive separatists, we thought we’d share a few other warnings from through the ages. Click to size up.

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And just to bring us right up to date, there’s a bonus leaflet below.

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And finally… #19 42

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

We’re becoming increasingly concerned that perhaps Scotland SHOULD extinguish any remaining vestiges of independence and allow itself to be incorporated into a Greater England, if our education system is anything to go by.

We’ve highlighted on several occasions a catastrophically poor grasp of arithmetic in the Scottish populace, although for some reason it seems to be restricted to those intending to vote No in the referendum.

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“20 times 10 is 500” is bad even for Rangers fans, though.

Between the whines 44

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

Fans of TV panel shows will probably be aware of a regular strand on the BBC’s Mock The Week called “Between The Lines”, in which one comedian delivers lines from a speech in the persona of a public figure, while the other translates what they really mean. There’s a chucklesome example here.

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For a bit of fun we’ve decided to have our own attempt, with a letter sent out this week to the No campaign’s mailing list by the independence debate’s own Hugh Dennis: “Better Together” campaign director and creative truth interpreter Blair McDougall.

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And finally… #17 36

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

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And finally… #16 57

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

As a new week of Newsnight Scotland looms, this should work most days.

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Posted on February 10, 2013 by

EXCLUSIVE! Wings Over Scotland discovers that after studying a number of secret UK Government documents the BBC is resigned to a Yes vote, has already removed Scotland from all its maps of the “United Kingdom”, and is preparing to replace the whole of BBC Scotland with Jeremy Clarkson after independence.

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Eggheads is going to be a bit different.

And finally… #14 57

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

Whoah! We were starting to think SoS had lost its touch. But neigh chance.

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Astonishingly, this really is the mane article on the paper’s front page today. Some hack must have noticed there were no “SNP accused” stories in this week’s edition and made something up on the hoof, in an attempt to give those beastly Nats a shoeing and stirrup a shocking tail out of nothing. What a load of old pony.

It’d give anyone who believes in a balanced Scottish media a really long face.

And finally… #12 8

Posted on February 07, 2013 by

After The Referendum, No.1 – Ken Macintosh.

With dozens of Scottish Labour MPs suddenly scrabbling for jobs at Holyrood, the current D-listers will have to find alternative employment.

Deputy Assistant Manager, Eastwood Matalan.

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