tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post628914293145455232..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: "MORE NATS, LESS CUTS". WE NEED MORE LOCAL CHAMPIONS IN THE LONDON PARLIAMENTMunguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-47871010342806856822010-04-06T21:45:04.694+01:002010-04-06T21:45:04.694+01:00Hum... I read it as "kindly" anyway... b...Hum... I read it as "kindly" anyway... but watch out for Niko, he's got his red biro out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-7571053504049378892010-04-06T21:44:14.512+01:002010-04-06T21:44:14.512+01:00Im sure that it will Sophia.
Not a lot I can add...Im sure that it will Sophia. <br /><br />Not a lot I can add to that except to say I agree. I've had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times briefly and he's impressed me and a decent guy. I'd be happy for him to be our First or Premier Minister... or President, whatever.<br /><br />Nicola's a great girl too. She'll be a good leader for Scotland one day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-85504909488385301862010-04-06T21:40:44.578+01:002010-04-06T21:40:44.578+01:00Aw shite, that wis supposed tae say 'kindly...Aw shite, that wis supposed tae say 'kindly', SorrySophia Panglosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089164117446635962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-51023169879418822982010-04-06T21:39:27.322+01:002010-04-06T21:39:27.322+01:00Thank ye kingly tris, for the lovely photies o'...Thank ye kingly tris, for the lovely photies o' oor potential PMs tryin' tae get some auld dear tae vote for them, and for yer comment at 3.15.<br /><br />There are plenty ways we could cut oor budgets, and Trident comes top middle and bottom o' the list. ID cairds, NHS computer systems, pointless wars, bigger airports, the Queen, there's loads o' ways we could save money.<br /><br />Ah cannae say ah've kent many politicians in ma time, jist a few really. But whit ah dae ken is this. Alec Salmond is easy the maist honest, decent an' principled man that Scotland has produced in many a long year. Ah'm deid proud tae ca' him ma Prime Minister, an' ah look forward tae him bein' an independent Scotland's first leader.<br /><br />Ah hope tae God it happens afore the Big Yin ca's me hame.Sophia Panglosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089164117446635962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-74792827469852932512010-04-06T20:56:20.013+01:002010-04-06T20:56:20.013+01:00Don't you Niko. It could spell the end of the ...Don't you Niko. It could spell the end of the world (did you see that? Spell.... spell...) oh , ok.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-80795188051860776072010-04-06T20:35:11.776+01:002010-04-06T20:35:11.776+01:00Yeah not gonna vote for sumone whose cant speelYeah not gonna vote for sumone whose cant speelNikostratoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06581441869560921339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-74412479527755859162010-04-06T16:47:02.120+01:002010-04-06T16:47:02.120+01:00I don't think it's an "if" QM. W...I don't think it's an "if" QM. We are going to get less the same as everyone in the UK is going to get less.... Even the Queen might have a job to get a pay rise this year (Although I see the MPs managed it needless to say).<br /><br />It will be up to the SNP to highlight that we are getting less. 'If's' that belong to the past are in the past. We must look at the 'Ifs' that exist at the moment as you rightly say. <br /><br />I don't think that devolution will do anything to change the fear of the main parties of Scottish and Welsh nationalism. Labour don't want it because without the 30+ seats from Scotland that they would rarely form a government in England. The Tories because they would hate to be the party that oversaw the break up of the UK. Neither wants it because it might threaten their seat at the top table and all the big summits with President Obama.<br /><br />It is going to be interesting whichever way it turns out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-18853529853070131882010-04-06T16:29:41.446+01:002010-04-06T16:29:41.446+01:00That was before devolution though, I wonder how th...That was before devolution though, I wonder how the SNP will cope if they face a much reduced budget from Westminster.Quiet_Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-74466588946232579592010-04-06T15:47:32.810+01:002010-04-06T15:47:32.810+01:00Yes, QM. Who knows what might happen. But a large ...Yes, QM. Who knows what might happen. But a large number of SNP MPs in Scotland will certainly make Cameron or Brown think carefully about how strongly we feel.<br /><br />No one much pays attention to Scotland as a rule; the Tories because they feel that that apart from a few seats there’s no hope for them here. They would be happy with 4 or 5 MPs out of 59; Labour because they take Scottish voters for granted. In vast swathes of Scotland they have held sway for 70 years and more. The people vote Labour because ‘’that’s the party that people like them vote for’’, (honestly I’ve heard people say that) and Labour keep them in poverty in order to ensure that they never have aspirations above Labour level of misery.<br /><br />There is no doubt that (and this may seem negative, but all is fair in love, war and politics) if we have another English imposed Tory Government, the people here will, after a while see that, if they just got rid of the massive number of Tory voters in the southern part of the UK, they would never have to have another Tory government again. It’s a step, another step in the battle for independence.<br /><br />The last time the SNP had a substantial number of seats in Westminster, the London parties did sit up, take their trotters out of the trough and take notice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-42374039375639132532010-04-06T15:35:35.565+01:002010-04-06T15:35:35.565+01:00Problem as I see it then is that it doesn't ma...Problem as I see it then is that it doesn't matter how many more Nats you get as they'd only really take the Labour votes. That means you have to deal with a One nation Conservative PM in Westminster. Unless you get independence then I suspect Cameron will ignore Salmond.Quiet_Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-25292353778791532242010-04-06T15:15:35.365+01:002010-04-06T15:15:35.365+01:00We spend less on the fripperies, I guess.
We real...We spend less on the fripperies, I guess.<br /><br />We really don't need £100 billion on Trident; we don't need identity cards... we don't need to go to war every time the US President says "Go to war!"<br /><br />He's an economist QM, I doubt if he will have a problem answering this for himself.<br /><br />The main reason Brown and Cameron don't want to debate with him is that he would wash them out and hang them out to dry the way he does with Gray every week in our parliament.<br /><br />Maybe not everyone loves Alex (I think he's brilliant), but he's one smart cookie adn no one can really deny that.<br /><br />The replacement of Council tax with local income tax would have saved poor people hundreds of pouinds a year at a cost to the fairly well off.... but Labour blocked it because they....erm... because....uh... give up.<br /><br />Probably because they wanted to embarrass Mr Salmond and keep the poor poor and Labour voting at the same time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-24264836272108649112010-04-06T15:02:07.213+01:002010-04-06T15:02:07.213+01:00Wonder how he's going to afford it (the less c...Wonder how he's going to afford it (the less cuts), just asking, because I'm sure someone else will.Quiet_Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.com