The new crowdfunding platform we used this year is a curious and arcane beast, and as a result the honest truth is that we’re still not quite 100% certain what the precise final total (including “offsite” donations and a few that squeezed in after the technical deadline) is. But as best as we can make out, including everything, it’s this:
(Fundraiser page here, or click here to donate directly.) .
The current total stands at a phenomenal £128,600 – already the second-highest ever by a five-figure margin, and just £11,447 short of the all-time record.
We’re at the halfway point of our 2018 fundraiser, and the all-sources total so far is a thumpingly impressive £103,266 in just two weeks. But while that’s a tremendous sum, it’s sobering too.
Firstly because with an average monthly readership of nearly 304,000 people it comes to an average contribution of slightly under 30p per reader. As with most crowdfunded ventures, fewer than 1% of the site’s users have actually backed it financially so far.
And secondly because for perspective, the average Scottish adult – independence supporters included – sends the BBC about £72 a year. (£323m from 4.5m adults.)
While obviously a minority of folk do boycott the licence fee, that still means that the average Wings reader gives the BBC 240 times as much money every year as they give Wings to fight it.
Just a quick one-week-on update: thanks to your incredible support, our fundraiser for legal action now stands at a phenomenal £14,683 including all sources. We’re well beyond the initial target of £5000, but since even a modestly-eminent QC costs slightly over £8 a minute, every extra penny helps.
The Yes movement, like almost all movements, is plagued with a small but incredibly loud faction of intolerant, destructive extremists. Alert readers will have noticed that this site has again been the victim of them this week, but we’re not alone. They’ve also gone after two print publications – The National and iScot – over their “transgressions” against the beliefs of these self-appointed arbiters of what people are allowed to think.
What those two outlets and Wings have in common is achievement.
Robert Hughes on The Long Unravelling: “He’s just following orders from his superiors : like the rest of ” them “” Nov 21, 08:49
Breeks on The Long Unravelling: ““… is difficult to sustain in the face of the evidence as to what Parliament has done without objection and…” Nov 21, 08:30
Robert Hughes on The Long Unravelling: “And all the Reality-denying idiots are out still refusing to accept we stand on the very brink of absolute devastation…” Nov 21, 08:17
gregor on The Long Unravelling: “re. “Swinney The Muppet” LBC: NEW: Scotland’s FM John Swinney backs US measures to allow U***ine to use long-range missiles…” Nov 21, 08:15
gregor on The Long Unravelling: “The National: Exclusive: Fears for nuclear ‘target’ Trident amid escalation tension with Ru****: “Hosting nuclear submarines in the Clyde isn’t…” Nov 21, 08:12
Alf Baird on The Long Unravelling: “The key point (from that report and other material, not least the Articles of Union) is that the joint Anglo-Scottish…” Nov 21, 07:51
gregor on The Long Unravelling: “Filthy Scot Gov/SNP-British war beast is a fu**ing abomination to Scotland, UK and humanity #Consequences” Nov 21, 07:51
Hatey McHateface on The Long Unravelling: “Good questions, Michael. Here’s some good questions for you. What’s tedious or insulting about insisting our country’s name be written…” Nov 21, 07:34
Robert Hughes on The Long Unravelling: “With Swinney The Muppet now joining in the cat’s chorus of ” We Stand With Catastrophic Nuclear War ” we…” Nov 21, 07:30
Aidan on The Long Unravelling: “The Supreme Court is the successor to the House of Lords in that it acts as the highest appeal court…” Nov 21, 07:19
Young Lochinvar on The Long Unravelling: “The “Supreme Court” was a creation of Teflon Tony and crew and obviously post dates the Act of Union so…” Nov 21, 02:33
Young Lochinvar on The Long Unravelling: “That wee bone however would have momentous impact in an election or referendum. Ask politicians who seek recounts. Just saying.” Nov 21, 02:15
Young Lochinvar on The Long Unravelling: “Gloriana; you are simply mendaciously playing arithmetical sophistry using figures for polls, figures as voted and figures per capita to…” Nov 21, 02:10
Young Lochinvar on The Long Unravelling: “Good points. Can you do the same for Westminster?” Nov 21, 02:02
Michael Laing on The Long Unravelling: “Have you really got nothing better to do with your time than endlessly churn out tedious, insulting, infantile bilge, Faceache?…” Nov 20, 22:15
Confused on The Long Unravelling: ““chortle” but postgate was a socialist and subtly, not preachy, wove these themes into his work … (starts thinking about…” Nov 20, 22:08
Confused on The Long Unravelling: ““rab clark” dont be afraid of your FREEDOM www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVw7fzIP6cQ” Nov 20, 22:06
Michael Laing on The Long Unravelling: “It’s almost like the independence party has been infiltrated, dismantled and neutralised by agents of the UK state.” Nov 20, 21:59
Dan on The Long Unravelling: “Plus the clangers are unfortunately now tainted in my mind because of all the racket created by all the folk…” Nov 20, 21:40
sarah on The Long Unravelling: “A detective inspector on the case has said the same – that it was NOT R—-n agents.” Nov 20, 21:34
Dan on The Long Unravelling: “It’s complex. The Clangers was broadcast on the BBC so naturally you have to consider whether the storyline is an…” Nov 20, 21:33
Aidan on The Long Unravelling: “You need to go back and read the Opinion of the committee, particularly the last paragraph under the title “Background”…” Nov 20, 21:16
Hatey McHateface on The Long Unravelling: “Yeah, I’ve noticed that on TV booze adverts too. If you can just catch the small print at the bottom,…” Nov 20, 21:14
Hatey McHateface on The Long Unravelling: “Jeezo, Ros. Not only are you destroying CM’s rep, now you’re going for Mark Hirst too. Soon Indy will have…” Nov 20, 21:02
Hatey McHateface on The Long Unravelling: “Never heard of him, but tell us, how does he spell “Scotland”? Can he get that right? Help us decide…” Nov 20, 20:52
willie on The Long Unravelling: “To change the topic if I may can I just say that this evening I chanced on a full page…” Nov 20, 20:52
Hatey McHateface on The Long Unravelling: ““jenno-side” Naw. 36 deid ain’t “jenno-side”. In the SS, you’d have been thrown out if you couldn’t exterminate 36 in…” Nov 20, 20:48
Confused on The Long Unravelling: “do the clangers remind you too much of beavers? I saw this and thought of you www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NlQiQfC4zQ” Nov 20, 20:43
Confused on The Long Unravelling: “getting the support of a half scottish golf nut who owns a lot of property here -should- have been a…” Nov 20, 20:37
Republicofscotland on The Long Unravelling: “Craig Murray, already blew the bullshit Skripal nonsense official English narrative out of the water – this is just the…” Nov 20, 20:29
