tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post8633594239631106525..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: YOU'D THINK THAT WITH ALL HIS MONEY HE'D BE ABLE TO AFFORD SOME NEW LIES TO TELLMunguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-12304322356099591642014-06-04T11:26:47.476+01:002014-06-04T11:26:47.476+01:00Never mind him, Helena. Taz will send him to his r...Never mind him, Helena. Taz will send him to his room without any dinner if he doesn't behave.<br /><br />Or worse...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-24074198348883541112014-06-04T11:17:15.345+01:002014-06-04T11:17:15.345+01:00I am humbled by your praise Helena.
Munguin, on ...I am humbled by your praise Helena. <br /><br />Munguin, on the other hand, says its only what's due to him, could you please be a little more effusive in your praise, and a bottle of expensive vintage champagne is always acceptable.<br /><br />But then he's a cheeky wee....<br /><br />I think that for a brief time Cameron did actually work as some sort of PR executive for a tv company in London. That's why I use that expression. He comes over to me as one of these greasy oily types that's always trying to sell you something and you feel slightly itchy when they have gone.<br /><br />Gidiot was a napkin folder before his elevation to Chancellor of Germany.<br /><br />I wonder if he managed to fold napkins?<br /><br />Probably not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-89887344680304806322014-06-04T11:12:11.997+01:002014-06-04T11:12:11.997+01:00I saw the interview. It was said as a sort of a jo...I saw the interview. It was said as a sort of a joke (but with a serious edge), and, needless to say, was taken out of context.. <br /><br />He said he had sympathy with the idea. He said too that it would never happen. He had occasionally brought it up with colleagues and it was always given short shrift.<br /><br />He also pointed out the incredible difficulties of policing it. What would you do about people who didn't vote?<br /><br />I'm instinctively against being compelled to do things if there is an alternative.<br /><br />But I'd like to read more about how it works in Australia, because there is no doubt that having, for example, MEPs elected where 66% of the people didn't even vote, is ridiculous.<br /><br />Worse in England where their police commissioners were elected by as little as 12% of the area's population.<br /><br />But Alex is right. The cost of compelling people to vote would be outrageous and you would have to come up with all sorts of alternatives to voting on the day in a specific place otherwise you'd have people not able to go because they woke up feeling ill and stayed in bed, or couldn't get our because their child was ill... or they'd been called to another town because of family problems... or they had to wait in all day for the plumber, or they were old and frail and had nom one to take them, and it rained all day and was dark at night and they live in a dangerous area... or even a last minute holiday deal had come up and they had grabbed it.<br /><br />I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard someone moan about a government or council and its actions and when I've asked who they voted for they've said.... oh no, I don't bother with that nonsense... It doesn't make any difference.<br /><br />But it's a good headline for the most unScottish of English Newspapers, The Manchester Guardian, so why not have a go?<br /><br />Oh, and Niko the spellchecker: "surprise" is feminine, therefore the adjective "quel" becomes "quelle". There is no such word as "quell", unless of course you mean "to calm" in English.<br /><br />Mrs Tahcher said so!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-22880677786729472732014-06-04T10:24:21.702+01:002014-06-04T10:24:21.702+01:00Another excellent presentation Tris, you and the M...Another excellent presentation Tris, you and the Munguin have done good again. David Cameron like his pal but unfortunately not school mate George are both products of the Public School System which does not use the brains just the influence to get on. Hence the state of Britain. I doubt I could actually call DC a PR man, a pretendy PR man maybe.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930463301985234273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-62202709015160449692014-06-04T10:20:59.372+01:002014-06-04T10:20:59.372+01:00Can I get your a hanky Niko, seems that the whinin...Can I get your a hanky Niko, seems that the whining is coming from one side and one side only. We are all much too cheerful for you, you I think need the sun and out of the pouring rain, so off you go to Cyprus, the one place me and the dug will never set foot on, rather go to Turkey where they look after their dugs and cats.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930463301985234273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-74229332868954769832014-06-04T05:23:23.308+01:002014-06-04T05:23:23.308+01:00Quell surprise
http://www.theguardian.com/politic...Quell surprise<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/03/alex-salmond-compulsory-voting<br /><br /><br />Alex Salmond says he would support compulsory voting at elections<br />Scotland's first minister revealed he would back the Australian model where people can be fined if they fail to vote for the snp<br />nikonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-60706407010944536252014-06-03T23:32:21.555+01:002014-06-03T23:32:21.555+01:00You maybe need to be reminded that I'll set Br...You maybe need to be reminded that I'll set Brownlie on you if you get too obstreperous. And you know what he's like when he's riled ...specially after 9 pm!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-90164893800787405192014-06-03T23:31:11.840+01:002014-06-03T23:31:11.840+01:00Ah Niko, pet, another one who lives in a wee world...Ah Niko, pet, another one who lives in a wee world of his own.<br /><br />Still unlike Cameron, for some strange reason, you're OK.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-64448120283445725112014-06-03T22:26:43.392+01:002014-06-03T22:26:43.392+01:00And stupidity is of your own making.And stupidity is of your own making.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-79411777502779154382014-06-03T22:12:11.529+01:002014-06-03T22:12:11.529+01:00tris
yeah it frigging is
War is peace. Freedom i...tris<br /><br />yeah it frigging is<br /><br />War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.<br /><br />George Orwenikonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-29722455174125463432014-06-03T22:09:48.816+01:002014-06-03T22:09:48.816+01:00tris & ch and all nat whingers
here
we know...tris & ch and all nat whingers<br /><br /><a href="http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/youve-been-warned-road-construction-sign-danger-warning-you-ve-words-blockade-barrier-to-illustrate-peril-hazardous-37475837.jpg" rel="nofollow">here</a><br /><br /><br />we know but dont care<br /><br />nikohttp://nikosbar.blogspot.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-34249637510116649252014-06-03T19:34:54.590+01:002014-06-03T19:34:54.590+01:00Yes. He's a cheap nasty little PR man, with al...Yes. He's a cheap nasty little PR man, with all that that implies. He'll say anything to get the result he wants.<br /><br />He's lived a life which isn't remotely connected to 99% of other people's lives. He knows and has always known that whatever happens he'll be just fine.<br /><br />I don't think the UK will ever be the same. The stupidity of his party's further devolution proposals is monumental.<br /><br />When will these parties learn that you cannot run an economy with control over only one major taxation method?<br /><br />The debate has brought the issues to the fore. Some say that is a bad thing... but they are the same people who would say that the right to challenge the predominance of the Church in the life of the country was a bad thing, or the right of Trades Unions to contest employers ' rights was a bad thing. <br /><br />Knowledge is never a bad thing, although it may produce some unfortunate outcomes. Ignorance is never really bliss, even if it has the appearance of bliss.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-18213354088954790022014-06-03T19:16:32.433+01:002014-06-03T19:16:32.433+01:00Thanks CH. That was brilliant.
I suspect that it ...Thanks CH. That was brilliant.<br /><br />I suspect that it will be available on Youtube shortly as a recorded programme.<br /><br />Thanks for the heads up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-24690249217467294382014-06-03T18:14:01.289+01:002014-06-03T18:14:01.289+01:00Tris
Cameron is a plonker and I have never seen h...Tris<br /><br />Cameron is a plonker and I have never seen him as an intellectual but he is media savy and can do presentation, he is in fact everything that Miliband is not in this area but sadly that is what many voters will vote on. Miliband has a better grasp, all be it wrongly, of policy where as Cameron doesn't but in the eyes of the voters Miliband is not a PM in waiting.<br /><br />I suspect that what Cameron is doing is two fold, he is expressing a view that he knows will get a lot of coverage, here we are talking about it. He is also saying to english voters I will stand up for England and for you, I don't want the Scots to leave, you don't want the Scots to leave, we are one happy, if somehwhat disfunctional family, but if the Scots decide to go me, David Cameron , your Prime Minsister will stand up for your rights and the Scots will have to see where the cards fall.<br /><br />He wouldn't do this if he didn't have a compliant media who are not interested in reporting the facts, doing actual investigative journalism, they do that they will lose their jobs. No one knows what the final vote will be, we know what we want but it will a long and very frightening night when the votes start to come in and we are all waiting on the Western Isles, and Cameron will play the game right to the end. He will lie, he will cheat , he will bribe, he will cuddle, he'll do what worked 300 years ago because they need what we have.<br /><br />Even if he gets his vote and his result, the UK doesn't go back to ever being the same again because we will have a split country and when a couple of years down the road people who voted no understand how much they were lied to, how much they were taken for a fool they will demand change. The difference being they will have to fight for it, march for it, demand it because after September there will be no future referendum agreed with Westminster unless we take to the streets and create a crisis, and Cameron knows it. Vote NO at your peril, at all our perils.<br /><br />BruceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-55660145937593399462014-06-03T18:04:28.605+01:002014-06-03T18:04:28.605+01:00now
now<br />cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-22706254322877477212014-06-03T17:50:08.797+01:002014-06-03T17:50:08.797+01:00Well, it is infinitely preferable to The Democrati...Well, it is infinitely preferable to The Democratic Republic of the Congo, or....em... oh yeah, Equatorial Guinea, or... nope, run out of examples.<br /><br />Munguin will, of course, be there tonight in Alex's retinue, but I have to wash and press his Wings over Scotland badge and his scarf, so I'll not get out till it's time for his car to pick him up from the reception.<br /><br />What time does it start?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-22795606339274016152014-06-03T17:37:40.083+01:002014-06-03T17:37:40.083+01:00If one had a choice over where one could choose th...If one had a choice over where one could choose their birthplace Britain wouldn't be very high up the list.<br /><br /><a href="http://dundee.stv.tv/117704/" rel="nofollow">Alex Salmond's 5 Million Questions appearance to be screened live</a><br /><br />If you are going tris with Munguin of course give us all a wave.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.com