tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post7638038795605608629..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: WHEN IT COMES TO BENEFITS, WHAT DOES LABOUR STAND FOR?Munguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-90889078944518287692013-11-04T09:05:44.855+00:002013-11-04T09:05:44.855+00:00Siga vre, Nikos. Too much ouzo I think, Nikolakis ...Siga vre, Nikos. Too much ouzo I think, Nikolakis mou! The SNP have done more for Scotland and her people in 6 years than either the Wastemonster regime or their Labour branch managers up here ever did! marakihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02725415558008352524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-86322468065703064022013-08-11T23:48:16.617+01:002013-08-11T23:48:16.617+01:00Agreed 100%Agreed 100%Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-60901359735281283522013-08-11T23:46:51.508+01:002013-08-11T23:46:51.508+01:00That's an interesting fact Anon....
I suppose...That's an interesting fact Anon....<br /><br />I suppose we could rent out office space to RUK..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-63235630532104411102013-08-05T12:50:11.114+01:002013-08-05T12:50:11.114+01:00Just a quick note to point something out to you ab...Just a quick note to point something out to you about British embassy's abroad 26 of them are in offices owned and run by Visit Scotland so Scotland would have 26 embassy's all ready in place and britain (rest of uk) would have to rent there space if they wanted to continue using them therefore bringing in money if not they would have to find other premises.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-810369987849903882013-07-31T17:18:08.404+01:002013-07-31T17:18:08.404+01:00I agree the SNP has done more for the working and ...I agree the SNP has done more for the working and non working people in Scotland and that is why I have voted for them all the time since 1978<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-17396134437193565572013-07-31T17:16:12.610+01:002013-07-31T17:16:12.610+01:00I am the same I will not be voting Labour unless t...I am the same I will not be voting Labour unless they change their ways<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-5908692732655058982013-05-29T13:20:23.076+01:002013-05-29T13:20:23.076+01:00THE UNION IS KAPUT AND THANK F**K TOTHE UNION IS KAPUT AND THANK F**K TOAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01891478052370308719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-35645111133700601412013-05-29T12:56:25.418+01:002013-05-29T12:56:25.418+01:00your head is wasted, the snp government has done m...your head is wasted, the snp government has done more for scotland in six years in power than what wastemonster has done for scotland in three hundred and six years Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01891478052370308719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-45388573279092380542013-02-26T23:09:44.429+00:002013-02-26T23:09:44.429+00:00Wow James...stunning post, which I thoroughly enjo...Wow James...stunning post, which I thoroughly enjoyed.<br /><br />And with which I totally agreed.<br /><br />Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-27684685149059947262013-02-26T22:11:05.828+00:002013-02-26T22:11:05.828+00:00You can't have union when one partner is more ...You can't have union when one partner is more equal than the others.<br /><br />BruceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-41386941897649758332013-02-26T20:44:50.836+00:002013-02-26T20:44:50.836+00:00Mind In Flux
“Propaganda is a form of communicati...<a href="http://mindinflux.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/disability-and-propaganda/" rel="nofollow">Mind In Flux</a><br /><br /><i>“Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.<br />As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented.<br />The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare.” Wikipedia</i><br /><br />Read on: Britain today! Take note Dean as this is what you are defending.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-44263453394296238192013-02-26T18:43:52.880+00:002013-02-26T18:43:52.880+00:00The issue here is that the problem solving mechani...The issue here is that the problem solving mechanisms in Westminster are fundamentally broken. This slow slide in learned incompetence mostly likely started back in the 60's and accelerated under Thatcher and continued under Blair and brown. Through it we have a created a society that projects its failures onto it's victims. We have seen a culture created that actively incentivises failure. And we now have a political class of cartoonishly inept chancers who simply cannot admit that they have made mistakes - and it is this that is far more corrosive to the Union than Alex Salmond. <br />We have a government that chooses to make the least responsible for the fiscal crisis pay the most in terms of austerity. We have a government that thinks that people with one spare room, are more of a threat to the economy than their policies. They believe that benefits should be cut, and that people should work for nothing packing shelves; rather than admit that their cuts and their workfare scheme is actually deepening and lengthing the recession. We are now also seeing an uglier and darker side of this union, and that troubles me greatly. We are tring to turn the poor against each other, we are vilifying the sick and the elderly, and we demonise our children.<br /><br />the Union was created 300 years ago. It has been held together with a series of compromises to keep homerule in check, or at least partially satisfy it, that it would accept the continuation of the Union. The devolved parliament was created to deal with the growing sense that Scotland simply was not represented at Westminster that it was being governed by a party that many felt had no mandate to do so. The democratic deficit it was called. The conservatives ignored it and suffered for it. They as a party have not been and are unlikely to be forgiven for what it did here. The parliament created a dilemma with the so called west lothian question, that no westminster party is keen to address. To address it fully would lead to the creation of a federal structure and the end of the Union. The other dilemma is that it showed that Scotland cannot and will not accept rule from Westminster for a party it did not vote for.<br /><br />its possible that if Labour shows it can win, then perhaps it maybe be able to keep it together for a while yet, but the problems remain and will only deepen. if on the other hand, there is a feeling that the Tories could very well win again...then I can see a situation were Scots will vote to end the union in an act of national self preservation.<br /><br />Nationalism of course brings me to Dean. The man deplores nationalism. yet craves it desperately but only if its "British". He high handedly dismisses the idea of British nationalism or indeed the concept of a British identity. It seems he believes in the construct of the Union itself as some sort of superior nationalism that transcends borders and boundaries. This is all well and good, if the construct works in harmony. In Hobbes book Leviathan, he talks of a similar construct, led of course by a single unifying entity. In Hobbes case, it was the monarch. In deans case, it is the Union. Hobbes theories came to nothing in the end, and sadly this too will be the fate of the Union. <br /><br />You can't have Union if there is disharmony within it. You can't have union if it cannot govern in the best interests of all its people. And you can't have Union if one group within it, simply cannot abide the idea of being ruled by the other half.<br /><br />The Union is running out of wiggle room and its defenders do not seem capable of constructing a new narrative that could keep it together. Why is that? Because England is moving to the far right. Scotland isn't. the fault line lie there and Salmond will exploit it and we'll see how much affection there if for the Union then. A no vote isn't a vote for the status quo. A no vote is a vote to keep this dysfunctional system operating. Time for Scotland and England to go their own way, we were clearly never a good match.James Mortonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-40524568659069026132013-02-26T18:01:12.348+00:002013-02-26T18:01:12.348+00:00I'm not wasting my time debating with a crazed...<i>I'm not wasting my time debating with a crazed fundamentalist like Cynical Tris.</i><br /><br />Ha ha of course not because you have no positive argument/s for the union.<br /><br />Would you join the union now if we were already independent?cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-58936035748615430842013-02-26T17:53:34.132+00:002013-02-26T17:53:34.132+00:00I'm not wasting my time debating with a crazed...I'm not wasting my time debating with a crazed fundamentalist like Cynical Tris.Dean MacKinnon-Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221192592535723681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-78315841637075606902013-02-26T00:22:08.246+00:002013-02-26T00:22:08.246+00:00I think there may be some people who are stil unde...I think there may be some people who are stil under the illusion that politicians are in it for the good or the country.<br /><br />We know that any in the major parties are in it for the power.<br /><br />I seriously doubt anyone joined the Liberals expecting to be a minister...by chance it has happened.<br /><br />Greens and Scottish Socialists too. And until recently the SNP. Now of course the SNP IS important and in power.<br /><br />But Labour want to be in power in England. They want command of the nuclear weapons and the wars and the the taxes. being a piddling little peon in Scotland isn't good enough for them any more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-16486028639648925222013-02-26T00:19:19.592+00:002013-02-26T00:19:19.592+00:00Great summation Bruce, as ever. You usually leave ...Great summation Bruce, as ever. You usually leave us nothing to add...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-53470230727180650552013-02-26T00:16:17.417+00:002013-02-26T00:16:17.417+00:00No answer from Dean...CHNo answer from Dean...CHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-20269167668773662472013-02-25T16:35:54.306+00:002013-02-25T16:35:54.306+00:00"Too many regard the SNP in Scotland as a mor..."Too many regard the SNP in Scotland as a more mortal enemy than the Tories in London."<br /><br />Do the Tories threaten to take Labour's seats and councillors away from them in Scotland? No.<br /><br />Do the Tories threaten to take away Westminster with its expense accounts, London living and pomp and cermony? No.<br /><br />Do the Tories threaten to take away the House of Lords with its titles, big ermine collars, generous attendance allowance and no obligation to produce anything in return? No.<br /><br />It's fairly easy to work out who the mortal enemy is for Labour in Scotland.DougtheDughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02952281599715356995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-67289622440001482212013-02-25T09:12:59.630+00:002013-02-25T09:12:59.630+00:00Hiya all
Congrats Niko, lets hope the grandchild...Hiya all <br /><br />Congrats Niko, lets hope the grandchildren have more sense than you do.<br /><br />Labour my favourite subject. First of all I am surprised the Scotland on Sunday actually published this and it's not April 1st yet. Some have touched on the main issue above for Labour as does the article.<br /><br />Labour wants/needs English votes in the south and the counties to have any chance of winning an outright victory in the next election. Lamont wants to be Curran so has to toe the party line, Sarwar will follow anything in a red rosette if it's name is Ed. What all of this means is that a) they truly believe they have Scotland wrapped up as long as they keep Glasgow unhealthy, unemployed and dying young so therefor can do what they have done for a 100 years, take Scotland for granted and rob it blind of it's resources in the misguided illusion that Great Britain actually stands for something.<br /><br />One of the really sad things about the leadership of the Labour Party is they love the power, meeting the Murdochs and the Royal Family, visiting the palaces and wallowing in the belief that they are important when everyone else knows that the Windsors, Cameron, Osbourne, Major, Thatcher would not piss on them if they were on fire and will never ever let them join the club. Yeah every so often the thick electorate will vote them in for a time, 12 years a surprise, they will make a mess according to how things should be in the natural order of things, get rich, hit the Lords and then along come the Tories to restore the natural order of things. Now the Tories they love cleaning up the mess as it allows them to move their agenda further forward picking up from each of the other occasions they were in power. The Tories just love to shaft the poor and restore the feeling that they are your betters and you will do as your told, like working for your social security at half the minimum wage in companies owned by Tories or the friends of Tories.<br /><br />We then have Labour supporters like Dean, probably genuine in their belief that Britain is the best of both worlds, would have preferred that Scotland had ceased to exist in 1707 and we all had to take an English passport, how life would be so much easier for them. We can't afford universal social security, it benefits the middle class blah blah blah. First things first, yes we can afford it as we set our own priorities within our budget. Second, if you feel that strongly about it as a tax payer I will welcome your donation to one of the higher education establishments equal to the cost of your fees, go for it.<br /><br />I don't want to ramble on forever, you'll all get bored but Labour are the jelly of Scottish politics, left without structure they are all over the place. Labour are a chameleon of a party now, chop and change based on the headlines in the Daily Mail with party members who are so brainwashed now that they are afraid to take control of their party or to admit that deep down the nationalists, or as I prefer just Scottish people, are right but we can't ever ever admit it.<br /><br />Bruce<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-53494964003594279032013-02-25T08:27:05.767+00:002013-02-25T08:27:05.767+00:00And what party abolished grants? I think you'l...And what party abolished grants? I think you'll find it was one of the Unionist parties, not any of the pro-independence ones.. panda pawsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-70810489916587304872013-02-25T08:23:34.646+00:002013-02-25T08:23:34.646+00:00There's no way to espouse democratic socialism...There's no way to espouse democratic socialism and enact neo-liberal policies at the same time. NuLabour can't have its cake and eat it. <br /><br />panda pawsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-19352578852580051282013-02-24T22:41:23.771+00:002013-02-24T22:41:23.771+00:00Mmm thought I'd Posted something, obviously no...Mmm thought I'd Posted something, obviously not.<br /><br />Dean give us <b>one</b> creditable reason of why we are better together.<br /><br />Forget the AAA rating or all of these treaties as we wouldn't be allowed to house nuclear weapons even though we apparently haven't signed the nuclear proliferation treaty, why are we are <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BD4pWlxCMAAYI-M.jpg:large" rel="nofollow">better together</a> when the slate is clean?cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-26005190563790209342013-02-24T21:56:17.582+00:002013-02-24T21:56:17.582+00:00Well said Fairfor!
It's ok, Taz will show him...Well said Fairfor!<br /><br />It's ok, Taz will show him the error of his ways, if not by intellectual persuasion, with a great big chomp out of Niko's backside!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-21698981470442124212013-02-24T20:52:43.857+00:002013-02-24T20:52:43.857+00:00SAAS. Student loans.
Us poor kids need financial ...SAAS. Student loans.<br /><br />Us poor kids need financial support to afford full time study.<br /><br />Rent, fuel, energy, books (academic books are expensive), plus transportation.<br /><br />University isn't 'free' not for any kid who doesn't have parents in the 1%.Dean MacKinnon-Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221192592535723681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-56793642543418106242013-02-24T20:16:11.390+00:002013-02-24T20:16:11.390+00:00Congratulations on the new baby Niko, may the chil...Congratulations on the new baby Niko, may the child have good health and prosper in an independent Scotland and may the baby help you see the error of your ways as I am sure you will want only the best for all the wee Nikos and Nikolettes<br />You know it makes sense fairforfochennoreply@blogger.com