Using trafficestimate.com the following pro-Indy blogs received these estimated visitor figures:
- Wings over Scotland 118 600
- Wee Ginger Dug 57 300
- Common Space 49 000
- Talking-up Scotland 48 800
- Gerry Hassan 22 900
- Scot Goes Pop 15 900
- Peter Bell not enough data
- I’m getting ‘File not found (404)’ for Grouse Beater.
I haven’t included Craig Murray at nearly a quarter of a million because I’m putting him in another league and because most of his stuff is UK or globally-oriented. I have included Peter Bell because he once sneered at my puny twitter presence of 3 000 against his 10 000. Hah!
Seriously though, is Wings in decline, losing readers as it becomes distracted by sexual identity and internal SNP machinations? I’m a huge and genuine fan of his work. He has produced some of the most powerful, forensic and influential communication we’ve seen. I really hope he returns in strength. As for Common Space, it’s astonishing that with their funding and star contributors, they have attracted only a handful more visitors than TuS, with only me, Ludo and one or two irregulars. Their Tiqui-taca, short, often sideways-passing, playing out from the back, game may be losing out to our more direct hoof it up to Big Duncan tactic.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Good figures John and you could clean up bloggers from Wings that are SNP supporters now that Campbell has openly called for Nicola Surgeon’s resignation. He has aspirations of his own in politics and seems to think Scots will be daft enough to vote for an exile in Bath .
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I hope he recovers.
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I don’t comment much but I always have a good read of your articles to get what MSM don’t tell us especially BBC who is biased in reporting as you proved in 2014 regarding independence and I suppose they will be up to there old tricks again at the next one.
Thanks for all the good articles.
PS How is the health now.?
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Thanks. Health good for my age. Becoming a drug addict in my 60s and getting off them has been an education.
Hope you are well too.
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A small aside. There is a big fuss just now, on both sides of the pond, about “Russian interference” in elections.
During the 2014 referendum, David Cameron was reported as asking the UK Embassy network to ask governments round the world to stick their oars into the Scottish referendum. On Cameron’s side, obviously.
Obama did, but the minimum he could. Mariano Rajoy in Spain went for it big time, and gave the Brit Nat media plenty of red meat. Putin did NOT interfere.
Oddly while “interference” is a big No No when it affects the UK, in Scotland interference was OK, though the media are now silent (D notice ?) on the subject. And the same media who wallowed in the propaganda against Scotland in 2014, are aghast at the same thing in 2019, against England.
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Good points
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Imho its not gender identity thats losing Wings his audience. Its his attacks on the SNP the timing during the election. Attempts to pile pressure on the FM to hold Indy Ref2. Sowing division in the membership. He’s been at it for a few months. Most of The old hands, experienced posters have stopped posting.
A wings List party lead by The Rev. Won’t be successful.
Who gains from all of the above?
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John, I cashed in my chips with Wings a few days ago.
I could thole no longer SC’s relentless attacks on the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon as the election click ticked down.
Down here on the south-western front we are fighting in a razor-edge battle with the Tories.
The SNP’s Richard Arkless has a real shot at beating Johnson’s “Scottish” secretary Alister Jack.
Yet the site to which I formerly contributed was actively involved in damaging the independence cause by calling for its leader to step down days out from polling day.
Folk here have been out in sheeting rain, five degrees of frost and gales to do everything they can to ensure the Indy cause prevails here.
If we knock over Jack a mighty blow will have been struck for Scotland’s cause.
Keep up the great work John.
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Thanks, appreciated
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In my own defence, if Google Analytics are to be believed Scot Goes Pop still has roughly the same level of traffic it had when Traffic Estimate said it was on 50,000-80,000 a month. Traffic Estimate must be very much a ball-park estimate – it seems to fluctuate wildly for no particular reason. But congratulations, John, on practically drawing level with CommonSpace – richly deserved.
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Thanks James. I was very surprised by your Traffic Estimate figures and Gerry Hassan’s (:-)). Have they changed their ‘whatever’ (you’ll know) since last year?
Congratulations to you, too, on the continuing high quality and insight in your stuff. As you know I sometimes pinch from it.
Best
John
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I have for the time being stopped reading Wings – it’s deeply frustrating to see anti-SNP rant after anti-SNP rant while campaigning during an election. If the Rev ever goes back to what he used to do so well, I’ll be happy to read his stuff again.
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I copy an paste your posts on to the f/b pages of the BBC Scotland, Courier and P&J, on their bs articles about Scotland, thanks for all your hard work, Alex.
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Cheers Alex. It’s the way to wear them down. Even if only one or two read them.
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It seemed odd that Wings up his ant-SNP commentary so close to the election. If he wanted to gain support for his own party after the election would have made sense.
I wondered at first if he was having a breakdown, it all became so vehement.
I think he has lost his edge but, like John, hope he gets back to going for the unionists, but I suspect this is permanent.
I view the Wings page almost not at all now, though still see the Twitter comments.
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