Earlier on today we reported on a case of a Scottish Labour MP being inadvertently unacquainted with some quite pertinent facts regarding a public pronouncement they’d made. While we’d assumed this to be an isolated incident, it’s in fact our sad duty to report another example within the Northern Branch Office.
That’s the pro-Brexit former Labour minister Tom Harris, there, making just the sort of statement that this site like to fact-check. So let’s see the most recent data.
And we do mean rank. It’s been quite a week already for super-hapless Labour MP Hugh Gaffney, but he excelled himself today when joining in with Scottish Labour’s campaign to resist building a new hospital in Gartcosh (which is the recommendation of an independent NHS panel), rather than on the site of the current one in Monklands.
(And yes, that is the same one Labour wanted to shut down in 2007.)
Because it wasn’t terribly long ago that he took a rather different view.
We felt sure that our awarding of the inaugural Thickest Politician In Scotland title this morning would be taken as the throwing down of a gauntlet, and we weren’t wrong. Because within just hours, the Prince Regent had staked his claim to the crown.
Greene – who was rejected by the voters of Cunninghame North by almost 9,000 votes but sits in Parliament anyway – is in fact supposed to serve the people of the West Scotland region as a list MSP, not the whole country, and we’re not aware of any breakdown of how Scotland’s eight list regions voted in 2014 so we have no idea how many voted No in WS. But that’s by far the least idiotic part of the tweet.
Earlier this evening the Herald’s poor demented David Leask made an extraordinary and completely untrue allegation:
We haven’t said a single word on the subject (we haven’t a clue if it’s true or not), so several people challenged Leask on the claim, and eventually got a response.
Yesterday was quite an eventful day, so it’s moderately possible you may have missed the alarming news that some shady Mafia-backed hedge fund or such has apparently funded these irresponsible and morally-suspect chancers (last seen shilling on air for literally Vladimir Putin and BBC Scotland, in that order) to produce an all-new series of scurrilous and dubious fact-grubbing for some inexplicable reason.
We have alerted the appropriate authorities. For safety, remain in your homes.
Hatey McHateface on Two Men Unalike: “Dunno. Why do you reckon the Gulf States and the other near countries in the region have been quietly working…” Mar 4, 11:13
Hatey McHateface on Two Men Unalike: ““tour the world pretending to ‘negotiators’” Good point, Geri. Do you reckon their speech is as syntactically mangled as yours?…” Mar 4, 11:05
auld highlander on Two Men Unalike: ““nukes” Why am I reminded of Blair and chemical weapons.” Mar 4, 11:03
Geri on Two Men Unalike: “The US do have mechanisms in place to remove a sitting president. I forget the name of the clause tho…” Mar 4, 10:42
Hatey McHateface on Two Men Unalike: ““Geopolitics street” Michty. Ah hope the cabbies have been telt! Was that an initiative from local government to clean things…” Mar 4, 10:37
Hatey McHateface on Two Men Unalike: “It’s very likely that the people who need to know will know who the “régime’s operatives” are. Some crew-cut, slightly…” Mar 4, 10:32
Geri on Two Men Unalike: “The Geopolitics street. Where strategists talk sense instead of bumping their gums with racist shit all day. You should put…” Mar 4, 10:18
TURABDIN on Two Men Unalike: “Removing an elected president for diminished responsibility is a complex matter which it would seem the US system has no…” Mar 4, 08:56
Hatey McHateface on Two Men Unalike: “Did Kipling or Churchill ever write anything about oath breakers?” Mar 4, 08:50
Mark Beggan on Two Men Unalike: “‘An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last’ Winston Churchill” Mar 4, 08:39
Hatey McHateface on Two Men Unalike: “Hmmm. Every total a multiple of 100. What are the chances? Indicative to me of somebody in charge of an…” Mar 4, 08:19
Hatey McHateface on Two Men Unalike: “Pop one in every Baby Box. Get Scotland’s future citizens accustomed to reality at a formative age.” Mar 4, 08:13
Hatey McHateface on Two Men Unalike: ““it’s actions” It’s “its actions”, Geri. Key to the restaurant business is presentation. That’s true, even when you’re naught but…” Mar 4, 08:05
Hatey McHateface on Two Men Unalike: “Good link, TURABDIN, and probability theory most certainly tells us that if we all read online articles for long enough,…” Mar 4, 07:47
Hatey McHateface on Two Men Unalike: ““word on the street” What street is that, Geri? Of far more interest, what are you doing there? BTW, did…” Mar 4, 07:34
Young Lochinvar on Two Men Unalike: “Oi Vey! Guys! Guys! Settle.. What you’ve both just railed about came direct courtesy of Uncle Sam! BIGLY FACT! Jesus…” Mar 4, 03:19
Young Lochinvar on Two Men Unalike: “Hmmmm.. Try: I could not dig, I dare not rob Instead I lied to please the mob. What tales shall…” Mar 4, 03:05
Young Lochinvar on Two Men Unalike: “Geri @ 11.31 Mystic Meg there Geri.. Pearl clutching from the “never have or will see service” hawks here but…” Mar 3, 23:40
Geri on Two Men Unalike: “Just in time for him to claim diminished responsibility & unfit for trial. I dunno why the yanks don’t ever…” Mar 3, 21:19
Geri on Two Men Unalike: “I hate to break it to you but the UK is the terrorist. The shit they’re involved in across the…” Mar 3, 21:12
Geri on Two Men Unalike: “Does it have an invisibility cloak? A secret stash of interceptors?” Mar 3, 20:58
TURABDIN on Two Men Unalike: “UNFIT.. https://archive.is/8oxBO keep away from matches, sharp objects and military hardware.” Mar 3, 20:40
Mark Beggan on Two Men Unalike: “Never in the field of British politics has so little been done by so few to protect so many.” Mar 3, 20:21
Iain More on Two Men Unalike: “It seems that those that followed the orders of Fuhrer Von Trump the Child Rapist are going to heading home…” Mar 3, 19:33
Sven on Two Men Unalike: “Maybe the ones whom some may feel to be too white, white, white, Mark.” Mar 3, 18:35
agentx on Two Men Unalike: ““At 1 December 2024 The total number of people registered at December 2024 to vote in Scottish Parliamentary and local…” Mar 3, 18:32
Mark Beggan on Two Men Unalike: “That needs changed. It’s being abused.” Mar 3, 18:25
agentx on Two Men Unalike: “” Voting by post If you know that you won’t be able to get to the polling station on polling…” Mar 3, 18:11
agentx on Two Men Unalike: “Earlier on Tuesday, it had been speculated that HMS Duncan might be deployed to the area, however Starmer confirmed on…” Mar 3, 18:04
Mark Beggan on Two Men Unalike: “Should the Scottish government issue Stab Vests to its citizens?” Mar 3, 17:39
