Telling the truth by accident 195
Posted on
October 29, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The 52%-empty glass 86
Posted on
October 18, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Investigative site The Ferret this afternoon published a report into the Scottish Futures Trust, the SNP’s replacement for Labour’s cripplingly costly PFI projects.
The report was undertaken by Jim and Margaret Cuthbert, a pair of economists well regarded in nationalist circles, and makes some interesting if vague comments about downsides that MIGHT, in theory, exist in the SFT now or in the future.
The headline claims are all full of highly-qualified language (“may not deliver value for money”; “profits may be unduly high”; “could restrict growth”; “potentially has adverse implications”; “impossible to tell whether“), and it’s a long way down the page until you get to anything approaching a hard fact, or indeed the revelation that the report seems to have been paid for by Scottish Labour.
And that’s when things get a little weird.
From March to September 48
Posted on
September 27, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s embarrassing to even have to point it out, to be honest.
Yet just six months later, with nothing having changed, everything had changed:
But when it comes to Unionist politics in Scotland, embarrassment is the default state.
The Cunning(hame) Plan 238
Posted on
September 26, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We stuck this short clip up on YouTube yesterday as a throwaway while watching the Labour conference in slack-jawed astonishment (a visitor from an alien planet would have concluded it was the gathering of a party that had just won a landslide victory, not lost its third general election in a row), but on reflection it deserves a proper post.
If you know anything at all about the story of how female Glasgow City Council employees have fought for equal pay, you’ll probably be as outraged as we are at Baxter’s bulletproof brass neck. But the video actually demonstrates what appears to be Scottish Labour’s master strategy for winning back Scotland.
Glass house heavily stoned 117
Posted on
July 14, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
And no, we’re not talking about Ruth Davidson living it up at Fingers Piano Bar. Kezia Dugdale tweeted this today:
Which would be a little bit like us gloating that Andy Murray was rubbish at tennis on the grounds that he was knocked out of Wimbledon this week.
Willie And Me 187
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May 18, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you weren’t listening to the Kaye Adams show earlier, and you probably weren’t, this was my call to Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie.
(The Kaye Adams Programme, BBC Radio Scotland, 18 May 2017)
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(Alert readers may have noticed that I had to adopt a wee bit of subterfuge to get on by saying – truthfully – that I was from Bathgate, because BBC Scotland don’t tend to take my calls when I say where I am.)
As you’ll hear, Rennie had no answer to the question (even when put to him again by Adams), trying to deflect the issue onto SNP BAD instead.
His position was that the British people should have the right to another vote in case they’ve changed their mind about Brexit, even though there’s been no material change of circumstances, but that the Scottish people SHOULDN’T have the right to another vote on independence even though there HAS been a huge material change.
All I can say is that I tried.
Love is a stranger in an open car 113
Posted on
April 27, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re still struggling a bit with this one, to be honest.
So… now the Tories are upset because the SNP aren’t obsessed with independence?
Not you, Scotland 149
Posted on
January 31, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Hypocrisy, actually 204
Posted on
January 04, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We weren’t going to dignify the utterly absurd media stushie over a tweet by Glasgow MSP John Mason yesterday with any coverage because it was too cretinous to even bear thinking about, but this from today’s Daily Record was just too good.
The patron saint of North Britain 132
Posted on
November 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The China Crisis 315
Posted on
November 12, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Even seasoned and cynical observers of the Scottish opposition and press such as ourselves, readers, have been rubbing our eyes in startled disbelief this week at the spectacular about-face performed by the aforementioned parties with regard to the Scottish Government’s £10bn Chinese investment “deal” that was never an actual deal, and which may or may not have collapsed.
But today’s Times just about boggled our minds completely.
Well, who could disagree with that? Who would suggest otherwise?
For the record 221
Posted on
November 11, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because, astonishing as it might seem in the circumstances, Ruth Davidson actually genuinely tried to get away with this at First Minister’s Questions yesterday:
They really do think we won’t remember, readers.
