From Ludo Thierry: A FORMER Labour candidate left party members stunned this weekend after she defected to the Conservatives. Faten Hameed, who twice stood for Jeremy Corbyn’s party in Glasgow Central, was pictured this weekend being welcomed to the Scottish Tory “family”. Less than two months ago, Labour supporters flooded the streets of the constituency, knocking on doors, delivering leaflets, and urging voters to back Hameed in the General Election. One of those leaflets had the candidate saying:”If Labour wins Glasgow, Labour forms the next government. Vote Labour to get rid of the Tories.” But yesterday Tory councillor Thomas Kerr … Continue reading Labour candidate defects to Tories

From Ludo Thierry: Highly encouraging Scottish economic info (pretty much across the board) carried on BBC Scotland economics page today. Link and snippets below: Wonderful to observe the boost to the confidence of Scottish business conferred by the SNP overwhelming victory in the December Westminster elections – 80% of constituencies won and the prospect of Indyref 2 being jump-started has clearly improved Scottish business sentiment despite months of relentless Boris fug. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-51443802 Output from Scotland’s private sector picked up last month after stalling at the end of 2019, according to a regular business survey. The latest Royal Bank of Scotland … Continue reading BBC Scotland Business: ‘Scottish private sector output reaches 14-month high’

Mr Richard Guy Thomas Stenhouse pops up regularly in the Herald. He’s a hard man to find a photo of. That might not be him above. Stenhouse holds 5 appointments at 5 active companies, has resigned from 30 companies and held 12 appointments at 12 dissolved companies.  https://companycheck.co.uk/director/900080192/MR-RICHARD-GUY-THOMAS-STENHOUSE/summary He appears to be a climate emergency denier. https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/18153364.guy-stenhouse-the-conceit-man-will-able-prevent-changing-climate/ Pre-election 2019 he was an Indyref2 mandate-denier. Maybe he has changed his mind now? https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17997079.guy-stenhouse-snp-not-cast-iron-mandate-indyref2/ He seems to be a sort-of Boris-supporter. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18088330.guy-stenhouse-boris-option-want-avoid-ruin/ Now he thinks Scottish business folk want us to stop talking about independence. Does anyone seriously believe that we should … Continue reading Mysterious Herald writer of tosh writes more

WARNING: This report is soggy with watery puns! BBC UK News at 1pm today: ‘I’d like to know where the Environment Agency is. We’ve seen nobody at all today. Nobody’s been round.’ ‘People are fed up.’ ‘People are really angry.’ In Scotland, trains and ferries cancelled but no mention of failed flood defences. If there have been some, surely Reporting Scotland’s fearless reporters would be there up to their wellies in angry locals and door-stepping the SNP minister responsible. Readers may remember their flooding frenzy (😊) in 2016: Over the winter of 2016/17, they were in their wellies, on Deeside … Continue reading BBC UK: ‘Millions of pounds spent on flood defences in the region [Yorkshire] have proved useless!’ What’s happening in Scotland?

This morning’s tweetings for our refuseniks: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2020/02/scot-goes-pop-panelbase-poll-by-wide.html?spref=tw https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2020/02/09/making-a-case-for-a-consultative-referendum/ Continue reading Strong support for Indyref2, ‘great’ minds and plummeting crime killing journalism?

‘The BBC discovered at least seven preventable deaths since 2016’ and ‘four further families have now spoken out saying their babies would not have died if medics had provided better care’ but all ‘the government’ need do is to ‘receive the Healthcare Safety Branch’s report into the 25 cases later, as well as a Care Quality Commission report from an inspection carried out in January.’ Also, ‘In two of the cases, the mothers said the actions of the trust left them feeling they were to blame for their babies’ deaths.’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-51439593 Can you imagine what Lisa Summers might make of … Continue reading Multiple child deaths in another Queen Elisabeth hospital but neither BBC England nor HM Opposition even think to blame the Tory Health Minister

Text by Contrary: Disclaimer: Contrary was not consulted about the headline. The Editor (16) takes full responsibility to the extent that he can. No it [Textgate] won’t break the camel’s back. There seems to be a lot of mixing up of the roles the SNP has, by everyone: 1. The SNP in government: they do well, they have the intention of improving Scotland, and they work hard at trying to make those improvements. (And I agree with John that this is the main reason they get voted back into government) 2. SNP the party: well, that doesn’t appear to be … Continue reading SNP: A few arseholes won’t break the camel’s back

By Contrary Being given a choice is how democracy is meant to work. Here is Joanna Cherry very clearly advocating a ‘consultative’ referendum: https://mobile.twitter.com/joannaccherry/status/1226413267242774529 Now, a couple of things – 1. the Forward as One Intiative to bring forward legal action has put pressure on the SNP (without them having to be politically liable for starting the action) to consider the legal route – well done to everyone that contributed to this and saw its importance (it felt like a hard sell), and well done to Martin Keatings in taking this brave action – and 2. Joanna is relying on … Continue reading Making a case for a ‘consultative’ referendum

Jenni Davidson on the left of three rightist women invited on to agree with Brewer’s anti-SNP dirges on a show fast drooping in audience share toward zero Two days ago, in the Holyrood online magazine which, last time I checked, has about a quarter of our readership, Jenni Davidson writes: ‘It is only because of support for independence and the lack of other options that is keeping support for SNP as high as it is, but if it wants to beat the odds and try to get a majority at next year’s Holyrood election, as well as win over that … Continue reading Minor blogger and Gordon Brewer regular writes the most awful nonsense about the SNP

In the Herald today, ‘SEX!’: Analysis – by Hannah Rodger: DEREK Mackay’s schoolboy error may just be the straw that broke the camel’s back for the SNP. This time, eh Hannah? Surely this time? I know let’s look back to previous scandals to see if SNP support collapsed then. Do you think the Salmond case lingered in the minds of the electorate which voted the SNP into 80% of the Westminster seats? The recent polls put them at 50% or more. Do you think the public might have forgotten or just don’t really care that much about one man among … Continue reading Recent history tells us SNP will sail on undeterred by media SEX campaigns