This is how you tell a lie 268
Posted on
March 05, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Below is a tweet made by Scottish Labour yesterday.
For the true version, keep reading.
A failure of memory 65
Posted on
March 05, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The plot stupids 110
Posted on
February 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The comical furore about The Nurse Who Definitely Isn’t An Actress shows no signs of making sense any time soon.
24 hours and several demented pages of hysterical tabloid shrieking later, we’re still not sure whether a No activist and Labour supporter from Clackmannanshire is called Suzanne Duncan (as “Better Together” called her until at least June last year) or “Suzanne Hunter” (as the Daily Record calls her), though a bit of Facebook detective work suggests the latter.
We do at least seem to have cleared up her employment history, as the Daily Record has now very quietly and subtly changed its article of last night, which claimed she’d worked for eight years at a hospital that’s only been open for five.
But a whole bundle of other questions remain unanswered.
Now you don’t see it, now you do 179
Posted on
February 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Jim Murphy in today’s Sunday Mail:
But hang on a minute. What bedroom tax?
Setting the Record straight 176
Posted on
February 20, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Independent Press Standards Organisation has delivered its verdict on the Daily Record’s coverage of the Smith Commission recommendations on 27 November 2014, after we lodged a complaint with the watchdog body.
We attach its findings below. (Emphases ours.)
Biting bullets and chewing carpets 232
Posted on
February 10, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s somehow fitting that the lead article on Labour Hame today is headed by a lie before it even starts – an offer to join the party for £1 that takes you to a page where it actually costs five times as much.
(We’d noticed days ago that the much-hyped £1 offer had been quietly dumped after just a month, but it appears that nobody in the Scottish branch office thought to keep poor hapless Labour Hame in the loop.)
The article below, though, is remarkably even more dishonest.
Fetch more hammers 146
Posted on
February 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Posted this morning, after a week in which it was so comprehensively proven to be a complete lie that even Torcuil Crichton of the Daily Record was forced to concede it.
You almost have to grudgingly admire the sheer bull-headed tenacity of their dogged determination to prove once and for all to the people of Scotland that Labour think they’re dribbling gullible morons.
The forgetful ones 188
Posted on
February 05, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Only a few diehards in the press are still clinging this morning to the Labour fiction we exposed yesterday, namely the flat-out empirical falsehood that “the biggest party gets to form a government” in the event of a hung Parliament.
The Daily Record’s hapless political editor Torcuil Crichton desperately fought against the proven facts on Good Morning Scotland as an incredulous Iain Macwhirter looked on, and a few of the party’s more unhinged supporters battle on on social media, but after some diligent battering away with evidence it looks like we’ve finally managed to get the message through to most of a reluctant media.
But why was it ever in doubt?
A thousand miles of stupid 233
Posted on
February 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Even we can’t quite believe this one, readers.
Good grief, where do we even start?
You’re kidding, right? 83
Posted on
January 27, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re pretty sure the Daily Record is just trolling us on purpose at this point.
Wait, Labour pushed for a what now?
The Monday Quiz 189
Posted on
January 12, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s the start of the week and it’s cold, so we won’t make it too tricky.
Which of the newspaper stories below is the odd one out, readers?
A few not-very-good men 83
Posted on
January 10, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve had some fun with the appointment of John McTernan as Scottish Labour’s new chief of staff this week. But he’s far from the only talent in branch manager Jim Murphy’s backroom team. Particularly alert readers may recall an obscure figure from the independence campaign by the name of Blair McDougall, who was little-seen in the last year of the debate but we think was the director of “Better Together”.
It seems his modus operandi hasn’t changed much since the referendum.
