Things we told you would happen, part 99 200
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December 19, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Three years and a month 205
Posted on
July 23, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
29 June 2016. Don’t say we don’t warn you, readers.
And this was February of the same year, when Barack Obama and David Cameron were still in charge of their respective nations:
You’ll always read it here first, folks. Even when you don’t want to.
The long drop 171
Posted on
April 16, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Almost exactly two years ago, this website suggested that it might not be the smartest idea for Labour to go along with Theresa May’s call for a snap election. (Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it couldn’t have happened without Labour’s support.)
And it occurred to us today that if they hadn’t, the current government would only have a maximum of one year left to run.
To James Kelly MSP, our congratulations 572
Posted on
April 02, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So there was a football match at the weekend.
At least three people were stabbed, one very seriously, in violent incidents the likes of which haven’t been seen around Scottish football for years.
But it was probably just a random, unforseeable one-off, right?
New Labour Pundit Of The Year 144
Posted on
November 10, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Regular readers of this site will be impressed, if perhaps less than astonished, at the new high score achieved this week in the timeless game of McTernan Predicts:
Please be wrong 627
Posted on
November 09, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s 4.36am. I’m going to go to bed in a minute. I’m hoping that I get up in a few hours and laugh at this, delighted at my own unfounded pessimism.
A matter of competence 809
Posted on
October 25, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Back in May we wrote this:
The prediction duly came true, as most of ours do. Sometimes we hate being right.
Moving on 566
Posted on
September 19, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Exactly two years ago today (how time flies), we wrote this:
It doesn’t seem overly immodest to say that we pretty much nailed it. But if that was then and this is now, what of tomorrow?
Another vow delivered 72
Posted on
November 27, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On the left, the Conservatives’ 2015 general election manifesto.
On the right, yesterday’s Press & Journal. We wish we could even fake surprise.
The nuances of the night 79
Posted on
August 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers will recall that this site has expended some energy on debunking the lazy myth – which suits the media and Labour alike – that a significant factor in the unexpected Conservative majority in May’s general election was voters being scared back to the Tories by a fear campaign about the prospect of the SNP influencing a minority Labour government.
Today we stumbled across an hour-long programme buried away in the depths of BBC Parliament, which televised “a seminar organised by Nuffield College Oxford at which leading academics and pollsters analyse the result of the General Election”.
The most interesting contribution came from a team at the University of Manchester who made two absolutely key findings from the extremely large and detailed British Election Study of the “short campaign” period, involving tens of thousands of voters.
Attention spans are brief these days, so we’ve cut it down to four minutes for you.
One question answered 183
Posted on
June 23, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been keeping an eye out for something for a while now.
And today we found out.
Tossing your chips 251
Posted on
June 18, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Over and over again in the years leading up to the independence referendum, Scots were warned of the many dire consequences of voting Yes. Among the No campaign’s prime targets for scare tactics were subsidies for renewable energy.
UK government subsidies drying up certainly sounded like a scary prospect.
