tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post5411717325455327493..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: RANDOM RAMBLINGS AND PROVOCATIVE PICTURESMunguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-91971195827733727092014-05-24T18:11:19.945+01:002014-05-24T18:11:19.945+01:00Might be a little late to say this "AGAIN&quo...Might be a little late to say this "AGAIN" but i'll try.<br /><br />Scots are using the SNP as a vehicle to get where we wont to go.<br /><br />Most YES voters are NOT SNP voters. <br /><br />Alex Salmond is the most powerful politician out there. No one comes close to matching him and even his enemies agree. <br /><br />A third of Scots don't like A. Salmond<br /><br />But two thirds do and trust him far more than any of the others.<br /><br />Then again whats the point of stating the obvious when they wont listen.....<br /><br />YESGUYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-10553398651230362482014-05-23T11:00:12.948+01:002014-05-23T11:00:12.948+01:00Like you John, I don't like everything the SN...Like you John, I don't like everything the SNP does, but your story of what theya re doing on the islands is, from what I see, typical all around Scotland.<br /><br />Whatever anyone thinks of them, or of Alex Salmond, they do things FOR Scotland. Unlike the other parties Scotland is the centre of their attention.<br /><br />And I agree they seem to have the policies that you would have expected from Labour, before Blair made them into Tory light.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-29526333245899087302014-05-23T08:33:06.156+01:002014-05-23T08:33:06.156+01:00PS: Good to see that you are on the mend, Conan, ...PS: Good to see that you are on the mend, Conan, keep well, mate!John Brownliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03248027418059598116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-71519596939072104152014-05-23T08:31:25.887+01:002014-05-23T08:31:25.887+01:00So hell would freeze over before Dean would vote f...So hell would freeze over before Dean would vote for the SNP but does not back his stane up with any reasons? Dean, you should be aware that quite a few of the SNP's policies are in line with the original Labour party's policy before Blair and co decided to make the arty a Tory clone.<br /><br />Whilst I do not agree with some of the SNP's policies they have been a breath of fresh air in this area. In my little corner of the world the SNP enable assisted travel on ferries and airlines which benefits the islanders and visitors. New schools are being built and the SNP have enabled a new distilery to be set up which apart from providing work for local building contractors will create full-time employment for around 30 individuals. There is no reason to believe that this is unique and I'm sure that similar schemes are being enabled all over Scotland. As far as I'm aware any 'imporovements' carried out by Labour in Scotland were funded in such a way that the rich got richer and the poor will pay for it for decades.John Brownliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03248027418059598116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-81431303689624808912014-05-22T23:48:40.251+01:002014-05-22T23:48:40.251+01:00Actually it was Neil Kinnock (believe it or not) w...Actually it was Neil Kinnock (believe it or not) who did it for me. He said, that people had died in China for the right to vote and yet, people here were too lazy to go to a polling station just up the road...<br /><br />Can't be doing with Kinnock, but he was bang on the money there.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-17966304655207464472014-05-22T23:39:19.924+01:002014-05-22T23:39:19.924+01:00I'll pay his fare!!I'll pay his fare!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-62993230644545471372014-05-22T12:34:34.857+01:002014-05-22T12:34:34.857+01:00Now that is strange, so few of us Romanised Helens...Now that is strange, so few of us Romanised Helens about. I come from a long line of variation's on a theme, Great Gran, a very strong woman was Ellen, my foster Mum who was also my Aunt was Nellie though much preferred Helen which she was meant to be and so I am Helena I have to say my Birth Mum was Grace and I was nearly that, not very graceful so probably as well I am not.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930463301985234273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-49525238559588017202014-05-22T12:30:24.948+01:002014-05-22T12:30:24.948+01:00Well Dean I have been a voted as I would normally ...Well Dean I have been a voted as I would normally do, I do not care who you vote for as long as you vote. I have always believed, a belief I got from my Grandmother who was old enough to remember how hard women had to fight to get the vote, that the only wasted one was the one not used.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930463301985234273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-43139982937047109692014-05-22T10:55:12.149+01:002014-05-22T10:55:12.149+01:00Yes, good advice. This move was probably made so t...Yes, good advice. This move was probably made so that very ruich employees could take all their money out and put it in the BVI to avoid tax.<br /><br />But if you end up left with just the state pension and nothing else, you have the life of a pauper. It's subsistence money.<br /><br />Even if/when they increase it, it will still be £60 a week less than people in Guernsey get.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-4269682929610258102014-05-21T23:58:01.529+01:002014-05-21T23:58:01.529+01:00Obviously who you vote for is your business, Dean,...Obviously who you vote for is your business, Dean, and if you have an aversion to voting SNP, then you won't vote SNP.<br /><br />But I think that voting Liberal is a waste of time. The most important thing to do seems to me to keep Ukip and their unpleasant racist, homophobic, anti women, anti-ordinary people, anti-Scotland policies out.<br /><br />From what I've read Labour will get 2 seats, the Tories will get one seat, the SNP will bet 2 seats. That leaves one seat (a scandal we get so few).<br /><br />The last seat according to Scottish polls, will either go to Ukip or the SNP.<br /><br />[Although not according to that subsample of 533, with weightings for England (not weighting SNP at all)]<br /><br />If you can't force yourself to vote SNP, I would think that the Greens are more your kind of party, although I can't see why you wouldn't vote Labour. It's your party and they are not anti EU (at least as a party).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-27657329982633051562014-05-21T22:45:13.477+01:002014-05-21T22:45:13.477+01:00Confirmation from UP Polling.
@schofieldkevin – S...Confirmation from UP Polling.<br /><br /><i>@schofieldkevin – Scots breakdown of Sun/YouGov Euro poll:<br />Lab 28%<br />SNP 26%<br />Con 15%<br />UKIP 13%<br />Green 11%<br />Libs 6%.<br />HEALTH WARNING: 533 sample weighted at GB level</i><br /><br />Vote LibDem or Labour get UKIP. We know who to blame if UKIP get a seat eh Dean.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-59022067216405007662014-05-21T22:36:19.918+01:002014-05-21T22:36:19.918+01:00Poor choice as that gives UKIP a boost as Greens w...Poor choice as that gives UKIP a boost as Greens would suit your political stance IMO not that you listen your elders!<br /><br /><a href="http://uk.votematch.eu" rel="nofollow">Try this.</a>cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-3047428371224617122014-05-21T21:45:23.235+01:002014-05-21T21:45:23.235+01:00I'll be voting yes or indy, sure. But I'm ...I'll be voting yes or indy, sure. But I'm going to vote liberal in the EU parliamentary elections. I always have, as a good pro-EU type, that is the most pro-EU lot to opt for. <br /><br />Besides, hell will freeze over before I ever place any voters crosses beside the SNP. Not in my damn lifetime.<br /><br />I can vote yes to independence, I can vote to keep Scotland in the EU but I will not ever vote SNP. It isn't the done thing in Glasgow. This city and its fine folks are labour (or pretendie SNP proto-labour types)Dean MacKinnon-Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221192592535723681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-46040981616907196812014-05-21T21:35:18.572+01:002014-05-21T21:35:18.572+01:00I agree. I have stopped reading the abusive pages ...I agree. I have stopped reading the abusive pages in the Telegraph, Mail and such places.<br /><br />There are, as I said, Scots who don;t like the English, although most of us do, but there are some English who seem not to like us much...<br /><br />It's not their fault. It is because papers and some politicians have for so long made out that we are a pile of drunken, lazy gambling social security scroungers and that hard working Englishmen and women/s taxes are sent north to allow us to spend our lives flitting from the pub to the bookies.<br /><br />If they read it in the paper some people think it has to be gospel.<br /><br />Whereas some of us have a bit of savvy...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-31611470840434709232014-05-21T18:13:00.055+01:002014-05-21T18:13:00.055+01:00Thanks Helena. (That really was my mother's na...Thanks Helena. (That really <i>was</i> my mother's name...)<br /><br />Conan the Librarian™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-16746769867867657302014-05-21T13:04:51.308+01:002014-05-21T13:04:51.308+01:00Good Heavens Conan, glad you made it, you are much...Good Heavens Conan, glad you made it, you are much to precious to lose. Have caught many of your comments over the period and agreed with them all.<br />I took early retirement, well it was that of go and work in a bit of the organisation I was certainly not suited for. Ended up in the NHS Scotland for the remaining time till I could retire and have been now for just about seven years. Never been busier.<br />Tris Loved the pictures, every one told a story I also thought the vote YES Dumfries one encapsulated all we keep trying to tell those across the border but seems the ones on the comments pages do not choose to believe or are terribly rude, Spent an afternoon last week on the Torygraph, oooh, made me feel really dirty and then you tend to get rude even when you do not want to. There is only so much abuse a woman can take before loosing the rag.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930463301985234273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-63927185375076346972014-05-21T12:57:31.806+01:002014-05-21T12:57:31.806+01:00Well Niko as a pensioner now, I will give you a bi...Well Niko as a pensioner now, I will give you a bit of advice, if you spend it early it will not keep you into old age. I suggest you buy a good bit of land and use it to provide you with food.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930463301985234273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-34449863693316514062014-05-21T12:55:17.682+01:002014-05-21T12:55:17.682+01:00Bravo Tris, the Weirs are decent people who as you...Bravo Tris, the Weirs are decent people who as you said came into money. They were always SNP supporters in fact the husband stood as a candidate. I suggest Niko shuts his mouth before they donate another million just to annoy him. <br />When is this reprobate off to Cyprus and give us all a break, surely there is somewhere cheap for him to live?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930463301985234273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-20988708615511453312014-05-21T10:39:37.952+01:002014-05-21T10:39:37.952+01:00Horrific experience, Conan. I guess it demonstrate...Horrific experience, Conan. I guess it demonstrates the problems you can run into when you self diagnose.<br /><br />And yet we all do it.<br /><br />Very glad to hear you're better though. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-79075957325580934502014-05-21T06:45:25.908+01:002014-05-21T06:45:25.908+01:00A lot better thanks Tris. Around summer last year ...A lot better thanks Tris. Around summer last year I started to get really painful reflux, and started treating it with 'Alka-Selltzer'.<br /><br />Bad move.<br /><br />It turned out I had no less than three ulcers and the aspirin in the medicine was causing them to bleed. My blood count went down to just under 5, although I didn't know it - I thought I had a stomach bug. Vomiting both ends, so to speak.<br /><br />A&E on Friday the 13th of December, transfusions in both arms, put in a side ward, as my GP later bluntly put it 'to live or die'.<br /><br />As I said, much better now...Conan the Librarian™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-42371436333838591522014-05-20T23:57:55.929+01:002014-05-20T23:57:55.929+01:00You do realise Andrew Mitchell has probably never ...You do realise Andrew Mitchell has probably never even been to Scotland???? (Well, we hope he hasn't and that he won'tcome in the future.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-39425934281410248192014-05-20T22:11:18.792+01:002014-05-20T22:11:18.792+01:00Yeah, Niko will be alright Jack, I mean Conan.
Su...Yeah, Niko will be alright Jack, I mean Conan.<br /><br />Sunning himself on the terrace, doing a few odd jobs for beer money, growing grapes and making Chateau Taz plonk, maybe he'll end up opening Niko's Taverna after all.<br /><br />And he'll vote no, although it won't make squat worth of difference to him.<br /><br />Think how proud Spook would be of him, if he voted YES.<br /><br />Anyway, on other matters, how are you keeping these days?<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-9460670626882492092014-05-20T21:49:58.506+01:002014-05-20T21:49:58.506+01:00Just a youngster Niko, eh? So you're going to ...Just a youngster Niko, eh? So you're going to vote NO then bugger off leaving the rest of us to a Tory/UKIP coalition?<br /><br />Where's yer solidarity noo then...<br /><br /> I swithered about taking early retirement this year, but decided to hang on, as I quite like my new job.Conan the Librarian™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-9536178313577808022014-05-20T21:43:06.574+01:002014-05-20T21:43:06.574+01:00Can you?Can you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-71698805396289896782014-05-20T21:42:38.802+01:002014-05-20T21:42:38.802+01:00Niko... don't tell me you have become a Tory?
...Niko... don't tell me you have become a Tory?<br /><br />I'm very happy for you to be able to get out, seriously.<br /><br />The weather here is hardly conducive to a comfortable old age and the cost of heating is prohibited unless you're a banker. I'd leave in a second if I could afford to, but I can't.<br /><br />If the same Gideon has his way though, it looks like the heath service in Scotland will have to follow the heath service in England and be sold off to the Tories mates. So very soon it will be as efficient as the last things they sold off.... pensioners' homes, or railways... you know, the most expensive and slowest and least efficient ones in Europe!<br /><br />I didn't think you were that old Niko. But I'm too polite to ask about your financial affairs or your age. So even better, if you can take early retirement and enjoy it while you still have the energy for stuff.<br /><br />I'm sure you have taken into account the financial implications of early retirement.<br /><br />It seems that the state pension in the UK won;t be payable until you're too old to enjoy it, and even at that, it's the lowest in the Western world by comparison to wages.<br /><br />I don't really know about the Cypriot government, but they can't be any less able than this bunch of public school idiots.<br /><br />Anyway, Munguin and I will be coming out to visit you. I don't mind where I sleep, but Munguin likes the presidential suite wherever he goes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com