tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post3083036633993827018..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: SCOTLAND WANTS TO PLAY ITS PART. WILL BRITAIN LET US?Munguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-72872583725936343512015-09-04T08:56:28.033+01:002015-09-04T08:56:28.033+01:00https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/2343/refugee...<a href="https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/2343/refugeecrisis-what-people-in-scotland-can-do-to-help" rel="nofollow">https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/2343/refugeecrisis-what-people-in-scotland-can-do-to-help</a>cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-45692067638664499672015-09-03T23:07:36.987+01:002015-09-03T23:07:36.987+01:00Maybe thats what makes us more compassionate in th...Maybe thats what makes us more compassionate in these matters. We all have relatives who had to leave. To be fair it was usually economic necessity. Go to America or starve. A bit like the Irish who have also shown great compassion.<br /><br />Unlike is they can take that action. <br /><br />Cameron is taking some stick on Twitter tonight. . I agree with your adjectives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-8335093492115609322015-09-03T22:34:52.823+01:002015-09-03T22:34:52.823+01:00https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/2343/refugee...https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/2343/refugeecrisis-what-people-in-scotland-can-do-to-help<br /><br />Some places and projects you may be interested in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-58162183735203357372015-09-03T22:23:15.671+01:002015-09-03T22:23:15.671+01:00The continuing policies of the London elite with r...The continuing policies of the London elite with respect to Scotland have resulted in huge numbers of Scots historically having to leave their native country and find a sustainable life elsewhere on the planet.<br />Their most recent attempts to strangle Scottish enterprise is just a continuation of the same policy.<br />Nasty,nasty people who are driven by violence and blackmail to achieve their ends.<br />If we were talking about these sort of actions by a smaller group of people they would be called gangsters,mobsters or thugs.<br /><br />bringitonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10712089398887269381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-20262459517587684562015-09-03T22:07:59.225+01:002015-09-03T22:07:59.225+01:00Well, maybe it is not a game, but they have still ...Well, maybe it is not a game, but they have still misjudged the mood. The super rich of the South East may be more concerned about their bank balances than about little boys drowning, but we bloody aren't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-81114578661948884732015-09-03T22:06:14.277+01:002015-09-03T22:06:14.277+01:00It might be awkward for her to be there to hold th...It might be awkward for her to be there to hold the Tory line of...well whatever it is...probably something about standard of living dropping for the upper middle classes.<br /><br />Or that they would be better off in Germany.<br /><br />Cameron should remember that he wants all manner of help form the EU in general, and most particularly Frau Merkel. He'd better not be pissing them off too much, otherwise he'll get a pig in a poke!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-91897586875439968862015-09-03T22:03:22.800+01:002015-09-03T22:03:22.800+01:00Hear hear.
I'll gladly hist any links you car...Hear hear.<br /><br />I'll gladly hist any links you care to post for charitiesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-14086925221284115832015-09-03T22:02:28.065+01:002015-09-03T22:02:28.065+01:00That's fair enough.
I completely agree that w...That's fair enough.<br /><br />I completely agree that we can't take everyone form poorer countries that want to make a better life for themselves. I don't have a problem with incomers, but it's true that we could empty Africa, parts of Asia and South America if we said we would do that.<br /><br />But we have seen what these people are fleeing. They aren't coming here to be killed by Iain Duncan Smith. They are coming because if they don;t then maybe tomorrow, maybe next week, a bomb will fall on them and they will all be dead.<br /><br />If some disaster struck Scotland, I'd hope that people in Denmark, Norway, Iceland , Ireland and others would offer us sanctuary.<br /><br />Most of them would be happy to go home when it is possible to. People, by and large don't want to live away from home, and people form warm countries don't really relish the cold and damp of Northern Europe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-36230022091491989662015-09-03T21:57:16.331+01:002015-09-03T21:57:16.331+01:00That reminds of the story I posted here a few mont...That reminds of the story I posted here a few months ago.<br /><br />In the USA a woman was in a checkout queue, talking on her cell phone. The man behind her, a redneck, stopped her conversation and said... If you want to to speak Spanish you should go back to Mexico. She replied, that was Sioux; if you want to speak English, go back to England. <br /><br />(I can't remember what the exact American language was, but because I know Sioux, I used it as an example.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-56794987381258982472015-09-03T21:54:32.062+01:002015-09-03T21:54:32.062+01:00I think Ruth might have a prior engagement and se...I think Ruth might have a prior engagement and send the standard blah blah platitudes or misses the bus connection. Why did those bastards vote no last September?cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-25383567417717843412015-09-03T21:53:34.273+01:002015-09-03T21:53:34.273+01:00Don't remind them about wind farms CH.
They ...Don't remind them about wind farms CH. <br /><br />They will bring about the end of the world with their intrusiveness... unlike coal or oil fired power generation, which just melts in to the background!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-78211107895984088712015-09-03T21:51:40.323+01:002015-09-03T21:51:40.323+01:00I've read some of the tweets from the hard rig...I've read some of the tweets from the hard right that simply don;t seem to care because, judging these refugees by their own standards, they have decided that the only thing that motivates their moving across the word is that they can make more dosh.<br /><br />I've tried tweeting pictures of the devastation; I've tried asking them how they would feel if it were their kids... pffff, nothing.<br /><br />I can't get it out of my mind either, specially after I saw another one of him alive with his arm around his little brother.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-29226019099714675322015-09-03T21:50:45.548+01:002015-09-03T21:50:45.548+01:00apart from writing to your mp and msp we can do so...apart from writing to your mp and msp we can do something practical by donating to charities like edinburgh direct aid (www.edinburghdirectaid.org) who are helping those refugees from Syria who have made it over the mountains to Lebanon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-34336586989023020852015-09-03T21:34:13.446+01:002015-09-03T21:34:13.446+01:00You missed out windfarms the scourge of the planet...You missed out windfarms the scourge of the planet next to the SNP Baad of course.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-14450464669918337112015-09-03T19:59:46.863+01:002015-09-03T19:59:46.863+01:00(I'll stick a name on the bottom so as not to ...(I'll stick a name on the bottom so as not to confuse with the other anons! And it ain't my real one, unfortunately).<br /><br />Firstly, let's have a clear distinction between refugees and migrants. Refugees do not want to leave their home country, but are driven by desperation. Why not take those with children as a priority, with the promise of help to repatriate them once things have been sorted, if they so desire.<br /><br />Neighbours of mine are refugees from Iran (several years ago). They have fully integrated within society, they all work and they are friendly and helpful. They did not come to Scotland for better benefits or the like - they were fleeing terror.<br /><br />If every country agreed to take a small number of refugees, it would greatly ease the suffering. True, there has to be limits. There simply is not the infrastructure to take unlimited people. But if we don't do something now, the problems will get even worse.<br /><br />ZogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-41194214672247933642015-09-03T19:51:15.641+01:002015-09-03T19:51:15.641+01:00I,along with about 20% of Scots share Maternal DNA...I,along with about 20% of Scots share Maternal DNA which originated in this part of the world,probably in the not too distant past (Haplogroup J).<br />I wonder what circumstances drove our female (and male) ancestors from their homes in Syria and surrounding area to end up in Scotland?<br />The Tories probably think they have been ruling over England forever and it sure feels like it but the reality is that every single person living in the UK is a descendant of an immigrant at some point in our past.<br /><br /><br />bringitonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10712089398887269381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-40353821568598771982015-09-03T19:36:00.991+01:002015-09-03T19:36:00.991+01:00Are you sure it is a game with them?
They represen...Are you sure it is a game with them?<br />They represent a party which is only interested in money...their money and how to hold onto it.bringitonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10712089398887269381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-51893666081460756252015-09-03T19:20:21.761+01:002015-09-03T19:20:21.761+01:00According to the Tories.
It is the EU fault,it'...According to the Tories.<br />It is the EU fault,it's global warming,it's greedy parents putting their children at risk,it's nothing to do with them in other words.<br />All they are doing is protecting middle England from all these Johnny foreigners trying to come in and take advantage of our food banks.<br />Can't shake the picture of that poor wee soul from my mind....there will be consequences.bringitonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10712089398887269381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-78660263644359390622015-09-03T17:52:57.518+01:002015-09-03T17:52:57.518+01:00LOL. Well, there you go, HV. I needed a wee laugh....LOL. Well, there you go, HV. I needed a wee laugh.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-78727539476134515692015-09-03T17:51:04.716+01:002015-09-03T17:51:04.716+01:00It is emotional PP. I'm not in the least asham...It is emotional PP. I'm not in the least ashamed to admit that there have been tears here.<br /><br />I'm appalled that the Tories couldn't bring themselves to agree with Nicola a bit more wholeheartedly.<br /><br />When 3 year olds are lying drowned on beaches, who in the hell gives a damn about party politics? but if that's the game they are playing, once again they have, I fear, misjudged the mood of the Scots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-38659958111765363042015-09-03T17:46:49.250+01:002015-09-03T17:46:49.250+01:00Well, I have the feeling that people like him prob...Well, I have the feeling that people like him probably don't read these things. Some flunky will be given the task of dealing with the Jock pains. Anyone who has read Mark's "Great Foodbank Siege" will understand!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-78357320357834244262015-09-03T16:53:04.370+01:002015-09-03T16:53:04.370+01:00Aye, very low clap rate on the Tory benches, which...Aye, very low clap rate on the Tory benches, which is a statement I never thought I would ever be able to make with a straight face.Humerous Vegetablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06749447163866759111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-4311595968047351072015-09-03T16:20:55.864+01:002015-09-03T16:20:55.864+01:00I've just watched FM's questions and the i...I've just watched FM's questions and the issue came up a lot. Nicola and Patricia Ferguson of Labour were rather emotional at times. It was noticeable that all but one of the parties applauded comments from Nicola and indeed those in Labour that UK government needs to do more. I'll leave you to guess what party didn't. <br />panda pawsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-65391571795274240222015-09-03T16:02:59.053+01:002015-09-03T16:02:59.053+01:00"Let's hope he reads it and reacts favour..."Let's hope he reads it and reacts favourably. "<br /><br />Indeed.jimnarlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02231790902689695587noreply@blogger.com