tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post5974259754676473982..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: SO THERE WAS A SMALL GET TOGETHER IN EDINBURGH ...Munguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-68000659812286444032014-10-03T11:08:01.475+01:002014-10-03T11:08:01.475+01:00Of course you voted NO it is the longest word you ...Of course you voted NO it is the longest word you can spell without a spell checker.<br />I much prefer Tris's comments.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930463301985234273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-396646550749774802014-10-03T11:05:46.989+01:002014-10-03T11:05:46.989+01:00Niko, the truth is you won but you will lose in th...Niko, the truth is you won but you will lose in the long term. Scotland was cheated once AGAIN, just like 1979 with a Labour Politician taking on the role of Sir Alex Douglas Hume, who was at least a Tory and we all know how that went. Well as others have said this just doesn't feel like 1979. The SNP have a happy knack of coming back like the waves in the ocean, this time I foresee a Tsunami.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930463301985234273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-42668755811075653462014-09-29T05:30:44.425+01:002014-09-29T05:30:44.425+01:00Thanks for that Cynical.
Without my VPN I'd ...Thanks for that Cynical. <br /><br />Without my VPN I'd probably not be able to get onto that site. Here in China things are getting very...tense...'cos of Hong Kong. Even Instragram is now banned alongside Twitter, FB etc...<br /><br />I don't see any of this ending well.<br /><br />Can't these students in HK not see what they're doing? If this escalates much further, you watch Beijing lose its temper and crack down hard. <br /><br />That happens, goodbye any freedoms HK currently enjoys. <br /><br />Things are not peaceful or tranquil right now. Even some of my more politically engaged Chinese friends here won't discuss any of this. There is palpable anxiety. Dean MacKinnon-Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221192592535723681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-45958093805629870452014-09-28T21:20:55.078+01:002014-09-28T21:20:55.078+01:00I grant you that £23,000 seems a huge amount if yo...I grant you that £23,000 seems a huge amount if you live outside of london or Birmingham, may certain parts of manchester.<br /><br />But that includes housing benefit and with absolutely no cap at all on what private landlords can charge for hovels and almost no public housing available, it will mean more people being evicted.<br /><br />That's the Tories for you though. It won't be them or theirs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-14082672352145486622014-09-28T20:38:45.192+01:002014-09-28T20:38:45.192+01:00tris
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/pol...tris<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/poll/2014/sep/28/is-it-right-to-cut-benefit-cap-conservatives<br /><br />Have you voted yet............yes or no.........answer on this poll as well i voted for no<br />well i would its a good unionist word<br />nikonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-23666095430384702652014-09-28T20:25:38.027+01:002014-09-28T20:25:38.027+01:00I have to admit I thought about the large increase...I have to admit I thought about the large increase in membership and wondered where that might take the party.<br /><br />As far as I can see it is a relatively democratic organisation. I wonder what a large influx of members will do to its policy making.<br /><br />My own politics are fairly left wing anyway (I'm reading Dennis Skinner's book right now adn agreeing with more or less everything he says) but I'm anxious about the idea that some of the hard hard left might influence things too far for even me.<br /><br />Of course Eck himself pulled the part to the left by quite a way for the days of Gordon Wilson.<br /><br />It's an interesting problem.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-42000743074348888952014-09-28T20:11:31.051+01:002014-09-28T20:11:31.051+01:00tris
Whats your view on the Hard left organisng a...tris<br /><br />Whats your view on the Hard left organisng and joining the snp to gain<br />power through the back door and push the snp to the extreme left of <br />politics.<br />Not sure Alex would approve or Nicola can control the snps own militant<br />tendency nikonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-79397271213957500572014-09-28T19:50:12.626+01:002014-09-28T19:50:12.626+01:00A symphony of horrors....?
Could be either Labour...A symphony of horrors....?<br /><br />Could be either Labour or the Tories.<br /><br />The Liberals would just be a concerto of horrors...<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-28170582625306480152014-09-28T19:46:52.865+01:002014-09-28T19:46:52.865+01:00Well, I dunno... circumventing a raft of the Westm...Well, I dunno... circumventing a raft of the Westminster policies in the Social Security filed wouldn't be pandering to the rich Niko.<br /><br />Building council houses wouldn't be seen to be pandering to the rich.<br /><br />Free prescriptions either. It was never the rich who had to choose between which medicines they could afford and which they could manage to do without.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-23441030143629045302014-09-28T19:43:38.136+01:002014-09-28T19:43:38.136+01:00Oh yeah... stand up double act!Oh yeah... stand up double act!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-84594449538563941182014-09-28T19:02:40.891+01:002014-09-28T19:02:40.891+01:00Forgot this, sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...Forgot this, sorry<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxlJxDr26mM<br /><br />Bugger le Pandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15924663556503952533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-56839644703356410142014-09-28T19:00:41.937+01:002014-09-28T19:00:41.937+01:00At least her eggs were unfertilised.At least her eggs were unfertilised.Bugger le Pandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15924663556503952533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-24157718114629166852014-09-28T18:06:03.569+01:002014-09-28T18:06:03.569+01:00Jimminy
That was a pretty good diatribe.........a...Jimminy<br /><br />That was a pretty good diatribe.........as for all the good people are in the<br />snp well I leave it there.<br /><br />tris<br /><br />seeing as Alex ( who was he they ask ) spent all his time wooing<br />the wealthy Scots at the expense of the less well of scots. Its with great Irony I point out the downtrodden poor who Alex ignored voted<br />yes ( but not for the snp )<br />whilst the wealthy whom Alex spent his time erse kissing voted to<br />a man and woman no and for the union..I mean you gotta laff.<br /><br />still the snp will be put of power in 2016 its already been arranged <br />nikonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-45233881764987378992014-09-28T17:58:37.944+01:002014-09-28T17:58:37.944+01:00CH
Naw, they just don't want their name going...CH<br /><br />Naw, they just don't want their name going through any decision like Blackpool Rock. It is all to do with deniability and lack of personal conviction. <br /><br />The only conviction this lot have is in the future tense, a criminal one.Bugger le Pandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15924663556503952533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-6360471023278942042014-09-28T17:55:52.201+01:002014-09-28T17:55:52.201+01:00Labour is dead, the body is in putrefaction and ev...Labour is dead, the body is in putrefaction and even Dr Frankenstein could raise it to a meaningful definition of life.<br /><br />Zombies infest it.<br /><br />Jim Murphy has arisen.Bugger le Pandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15924663556503952533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-25475728881652575742014-09-28T17:44:07.282+01:002014-09-28T17:44:07.282+01:00Nico, I had a whole diatribe to launch at you; sho...Nico, I had a whole diatribe to launch at you; showing the error of your ways. The cowardly way you voted no, then to sod off to sunnier beaches. The way you blame all worldly ills on a political party, who's sole aim is the betterment of the the Scots and Scotland. The way you parade your unionist ideals as if they were a universal panacea. Then I thought, fuck it, he's not worth it. He will have to bid a fond farewell to his bar, when his beloved unionist parties drag the UK out of Europe. A bitter sweet irony.<br />JimnArleneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-66497243635852944202014-09-28T13:54:07.782+01:002014-09-28T13:54:07.782+01:00What I don't understand is that they worry the...What I don't understand is that they worry themselves a lot about the atrocities in Iraq, but care not a whit about the atrocities in for example Saudi, which has executed by beheading, 19 people in the last month. <br /><br />And they don't seem to want to to go to war with them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-2089973491421132542014-09-28T13:50:34.289+01:002014-09-28T13:50:34.289+01:00Not genetically programmed?Not genetically programmed?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-52170490325780764112014-09-28T13:06:46.949+01:002014-09-28T13:06:46.949+01:00They fear the internet and want to control it some...They fear the internet and want to control it something like those other great democracies do such as China.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chinahush.com" rel="nofollow">Dean a site you might find interesting.</a>cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-59387389860231627272014-09-28T13:02:40.698+01:002014-09-28T13:02:40.698+01:00If memory serves me right Labour set quangos to do...If memory serves me right Labour set quangos to do the thinking for them as they are missing the correct genes to make decisions by themselves.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-85715112324472144442014-09-28T12:59:35.784+01:002014-09-28T12:59:35.784+01:00I thought he going to omulate eggwina curry in wha...I thought he going to omulate eggwina curry in whatever role that was.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-91701732973329026162014-09-28T11:53:06.143+01:002014-09-28T11:53:06.143+01:00Niko: One of the SNP's great pluses is that wh...Niko: One of the SNP's great pluses is that when put to the challenge of actually running the country, they have done marvellously well.<br /><br />The had a minority government in 2007 and worked well with it. They got an overall victory in 2010. They brought in popular policies, despite having their grant cut from £33 to £27 billion.<br /><br />It gets harder and harder to make ends meet, but as labour promises even more horrific austerity on the people at the bottom, I can't see that they have a chance with the Scottish working classes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-51387917918706829512014-09-28T11:49:26.301+01:002014-09-28T11:49:26.301+01:00Good Iain.
1979 was a walk over for them.
I imag...Good Iain.<br /><br />1979 was a walk over for them.<br /><br />I imagine people moaned a lot but just put on their stiff upper lip and got on with it, while Thatcher took money from the Scottish budget and threw a third of the population on the scrap heap.<br /><br />But it's a different world now and I'm sure that people like Cameron aren't totally clued up on the power of the internet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-21336303969603594942014-09-28T11:46:36.366+01:002014-09-28T11:46:36.366+01:00The question is, Niko, what new powers?
Gordon Br...The question is, Niko, what new powers?<br /><br />Gordon Brown promised as near federalism as makes no difference.<br /><br />Dave has said that's not true (but he waited till after the vote before saying it). He says there will be an extension of existing responsibilities, and that despite pledging that the Barnett Formula will stay in place, there will be less money for Scotland.<br /><br />So greater responsibility; but less money?<br /><br />He also seems to have put one over on Brown, because Brown, who is credited as saving the referendum (nice to get that one over on Darling), appears not to have been informed that England would want devolution too and that that would cause all manner of problems for Scottish devo-max..<br /><br />The trouble with devo max for England is that Labour would not really be able to form a proper government in the UK if England always voted on its own policies, and of course it means removing Scotland from even the pretence of having a say in how much money is spent.<br /><br />Dean is right. Labour is the one with the biggest problem.<br /><br />A tripling of membership for the SNP and Greens is not a problem for them surely. The SNP now has nearly twice the membership of the Liberals over the whole UK and is creeping up to the membership of the Conservatives. And why? Because they were seen to have lied through their teeth to us, so they could keep their hands on the oil money, which will pay for their war, which will please the President and earn them Brownie points.<br /><br />Blair must be over the moon. His protégé Cameron has followed his instructions and gone to war. Must be big bucks in it somewhere for Blair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-23741135334003147752014-09-28T11:42:53.101+01:002014-09-28T11:42:53.101+01:00Falkirk and Inverness did great as well yesterday....Falkirk and Inverness did great as well yesterday. This feels nothing like 1979.Iainnoreply@blogger.com