tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post8492634372658572074..comments2024-03-29T04:11:41.539+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Unionist journalists learn the hard way that wishful thinking doesn't get the job done, as sensational YouGov poll shows the SNP on course for an overall majority in the Scottish ParliamentJames Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-18554492981510705762020-05-03T17:35:17.846+01:002020-05-03T17:35:17.846+01:00Do you think they'll go all the way?Do you think they'll go all the way? Jed Mossnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-66203676097894419712020-05-03T00:19:35.892+01:002020-05-03T00:19:35.892+01:00Mark Drakeford was making a decent speech on Wales...Mark Drakeford was making a decent speech on Wales behalf the other day then ruined it by praising the strength of the Union at the end when Wales is having to import its own PPE because the supposed UK supply isn't enough<br /><br />What was the man thinking about praising them, the UK government F....d us all over PPE for the England first Donald Trump approachAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-47397324120513216182020-05-03T00:13:56.472+01:002020-05-03T00:13:56.472+01:00I bet you most of them were ex Labour who joined t...I bet you most of them were ex Labour who joined the SNP now they want to change Labour back to what they never were in the first place because the SNP aren't socialisty and quick enough for them, so down with the SNP <br /><br />It makes you realise the kind of people who gubbed the Labour party in the first place, they should just call themselves the destroyers of parties, or a bunch of A-holes who cannae make their minds upAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-57249034347064480522020-05-02T21:31:02.473+01:002020-05-02T21:31:02.473+01:00Not really surprising. It's like a poll findi...Not really surprising. It's like a poll finding that Churchill, or Stalin was popular during WW2. Sturgeon is popular atm, Johnston is popular atm. No idea about Mark Drakeford - maybe Boris makes announcements in Wales atm and there is a big Tory surge. <br /><br />When politicians stand on podiums every day and regurgitate medical advice to nations they become pretend doctors in people's minds. The politicians who don't get to stand on the podiums atm are regarded as politicians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-57560064314183092802020-05-02T20:51:14.020+01:002020-05-02T20:51:14.020+01:00Covidia shouldn't talk about itself like that....Covidia shouldn't talk about itself like that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-34692433980801078282020-05-02T20:32:11.863+01:002020-05-02T20:32:11.863+01:00thick erse-licking cretins ARISE!!thick erse-licking cretins ARISE!!Brian Nicholsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-44859423009871031312020-05-02T20:05:34.800+01:002020-05-02T20:05:34.800+01:00So, in just the past few days, in attempt to persu...So, in just the past few days, in attempt to persuade me to vote for a party other than the SNP (my choice in recent elections), I've been told I'm a 'thick, erse-licking cretin'.<br /><br />And the same folk wonder why the SNP are on 54%.Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-41838499677951284252020-05-02T19:56:57.382+01:002020-05-02T19:56:57.382+01:00'You Scots are arse lickers' is a real vot...'You Scots are arse lickers' is a real vote winner.<br /><br />Note that Scotland locking down earlier would not made a blind bit of difference. The timing was perfect. Ireland gained nothing from its slightly earlier start. It's on an identical trajectory to Scotland, albeit a few days behind.<br /><br />Closing the border would have been a good idea though. If there was actually a law which allowed it. <br /><br />That's the other rule of vote winning. Don't make an erse out of yourself by showing everyone you are clueless.Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-25524802497950394762020-05-02T19:34:39.764+01:002020-05-02T19:34:39.764+01:00Stuart Campbell is obsessed with destroying my par...Stuart Campbell is obsessed with destroying my party so if there's anything I can do to point that out I damn well will<br />along with his bampot chum the Scottish David IckeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-81587309796710250162020-05-02T19:01:29.966+01:002020-05-02T19:01:29.966+01:00Annie W. I hear most of you Scottish woman are so ...Annie W. I hear most of you Scottish woman are so bloated and ugly with bad breath the men give it to them doggy fashion. Boris Carlawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-1984145700610506302020-05-02T17:27:00.970+01:002020-05-02T17:27:00.970+01:00Covidia should look to its own behaviours. It'...Covidia should look to its own behaviours. It's not my job to do its thinking for it.<br />Of course, it doesn't appear to be Covidia's job, either...<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-50451214900647898322020-05-02T16:55:39.817+01:002020-05-02T16:55:39.817+01:00I don't want to have to drink cocktails with C...I don't want to have to drink cocktails with Covidia again. She kept going on about poofs and darkies, and people looked on aghast as she peed herself. I was mortified when she shouted out "Oh god I think I've just started." The head of the lodge told us we were barred.Annie Wnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-52053737401482414242020-05-02T16:41:55.186+01:002020-05-02T16:41:55.186+01:00Another Panelbase poll on the go.
Usual political ...Another Panelbase poll on the go.<br />Usual political questions about voting intentions and Indy, but quite a few about trans issues.<br />Methinks it is a Wings poll.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-18683461384178990732020-05-02T16:17:10.498+01:002020-05-02T16:17:10.498+01:00What do you suspect and why? What do you suspect and why? GWCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-84491197267806434672020-05-02T15:43:39.746+01:002020-05-02T15:43:39.746+01:00Looks like the strategy by supporters of a "W...Looks like the strategy by supporters of a "Wings Party" to convince SNP voters to lend them their list vote by insulting them might not have been thought through very well.<br /><br />Maybe there's a plan B?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-85186687962945273262020-05-02T15:43:06.167+01:002020-05-02T15:43:06.167+01:00Just so I understand this...
Scots are cretins fo...Just so I understand this...<br /><br />Scots are cretins for voting SNP, but you are asking these same 'cretins' to do your bidding and use their first / most important PR list vote for some sort of 'Wings' party?<br /><br />To be honest, this seems a very Scottish Labour / GWC approach to campaigning. They whole 'You lot are thick cretins, vote for me' thing that is.Scottish Skiernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-80957363309756198492020-05-02T15:41:58.844+01:002020-05-02T15:41:58.844+01:00In all honesty the guy isn't worth paying much...In all honesty the guy isn't worth paying much attention to. The reality is, his social media followers are inward looking. What Sturgeon is doing is having a conversation with everyone, not just the converted. And it is working. So Stuart Campbell can complain all he likes, it's making no difference. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-16741637988883810432020-05-02T15:37:48.694+01:002020-05-02T15:37:48.694+01:00Ah know, does that include Archibald Maule Ramsay,...Ah know, does that include Archibald Maule Ramsay, Scottish Unionist MP interned for the duration of the war, Hitlers man in Scotland?pottermontrosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310206774103319265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-11460851497974097672020-05-02T15:33:51.352+01:002020-05-02T15:33:51.352+01:00Do you not think you are maybe just a little bit o...Do you not think you are maybe just a little bit obsessed with Stuart Campbell? <br /><br />As you can see from the above polling, Wings doesn't appear to have much if any political influence. At least no more so than your average niche area political blog.Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-28404909940737847442020-05-02T15:04:16.063+01:002020-05-02T15:04:16.063+01:00Far be it from me but to remind people that Alex S...Far be it from me but to remind people that Alex Salmond lost and he lost big, because to allow tumshies like Alistair Darling and George Osborne to walk all over you due to your own unpreparedness, or was it? Did Alex Salmond do the deal in order to lose the referendum Scotland was winning<br /><br />Stuart Campbell and his Wings lunatics who'll fall for anything he says are totally deluded and Campbell has convinced them that trying to bring back a proven loser of a striker to play for the team just to do it all again is a bad and poorly thought out strategy and makes you wonder what their game is<br /><br />Because Independence it most certainly isn't<br /><br />Campbell likes causes until they don't interest him anymore because the cause isn't being done the way he thinks it should be so he turns on the party like the infant child he is and throws his toys out the pram in an *I hate my mum because she wont buy me sweeties* moment, then runs around inlisting the support of other aggrieved head cases in his latest cause, meanwhile everybody who counts for something in the Independence movement dumps him because he's a nutter <br /><br />This is a guy who abandoned his own website to let it fall into disrepute from trolls Unionists and just complete loonies so that it actually damages the Independence cause while telling people they need him to rescue it<br /><br />But it's all gone wrong because Nicola Sturgeon is more popular than ever and her numbers are higher than ever so Campbell skulks off into the bushes plotting her downfall along with his bampot one friend wondering how he can use Alex Salmond's name to boost his own career as a blogging troublemaker without Alex Salmonds permission, because if he had it, he'd be doing it<br /><br />Wings over Campbell is a chancer, nothing more nothing less, he'll just need to find another way to make a living, or invent a cause that worksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-6197300101008325732020-05-02T14:23:24.752+01:002020-05-02T14:23:24.752+01:00As another general point, if Wings' goal is to...As another general point, if Wings' goal is to set up a new party, he's doing it all wrong.<br /><br />You don't get elected by just constantly telling the electorate how shit the other parties are and how voters are stupid for voting for XYZ. A fixation with single personal bugbear issues will likewise get you nowhere, even if these are worthy of discussion.<br /><br />You win by offering your own distinct comprehensive alternative vision to be delivered by trusted figures. <br /><br />Certainly that's required if you are to come out of nowhere and make a big impact quickly. <br /><br />A wings party hasn't a hope in hell of getting anywhere on a 'Sturgeon is a females with penises loving Anti-Salmond bitch, so vote for us as we'll have indy done by next Tuesday, covid or not!'. That's just not an attractive, well thought-out manifesto which will bring in the voters.<br /><br />I say this as someone who is open to credible alternatives to the SNP going forward. I'm not blindly loyal to any party and if a new one came along that was more closely aligned to me, I'd consider it, taking into account how that might affect results etc. I'm intrigued to see what Salmond does next for example.Scottish Skierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584099659760612109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-88712576689718000862020-05-02T13:45:12.508+01:002020-05-02T13:45:12.508+01:00Not this summer they won't. Physical distancin...Not this summer they won't. Physical distancing is great.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-83146889757144875752020-05-02T13:43:52.542+01:002020-05-02T13:43:52.542+01:00Covidia's looking forward to rationing coming ...Covidia's looking forward to rationing coming back. That it'll come back because the idle creature and its fellow Brexiteers will leave crops to rot in the fields, rather than do an honest day's work, is irrelevant. Covidia loves its fake WWII nostalgia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-5808541177097427672020-05-02T13:40:33.665+01:002020-05-02T13:40:33.665+01:00Covidia sticks to turps so that its beloved Tory o...Covidia sticks to turps so that its beloved Tory overlords don't go without.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-76115797921683788112020-05-02T13:39:35.686+01:002020-05-02T13:39:35.686+01:00Big Eater spelt 'principal' wrongly. I wil...Big Eater spelt 'principal' wrongly. I will never again think of him as the heir to Pericles.Wick Dodnoreply@blogger.com