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Tuesday 28 April 2015
A VIEW FROM A SCOTTISH SOCIALIST...
AS YE SEW...
SO SHALL YE REAP...
Also seen on Twitter:
To argue that the
SNP can have no legitimate role in the government of the UK is to concede that
Scotland is a foreign country.
Monday 27 April 2015
TOM RELIES ON YOU TO PAY TO READ HIS DRIVEL
It seems that Tom Harris thinks that YOU should pay for his leaflets, seeing that he can't get any volunteers to deliver them, and Labour has no money for postage. |
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Seems like it would be a waste of money anyway, whoever paid for it... given the somewhat unbelievable figures this morning.
Apparently the 2 non-SNP seats would be, wait for it...
Alistair Carmichael and
Willie Bain. YES, YOU'RE READING THAT RIGHT.
Just imagine, Willie Bain a minister ...? 'Struth!
TNS Scottish poll:
SNP 54% (+2)
Labour 22% (-2)
Con 13% (-)
LD 6% (-)
Seat projection:
SNP 57 (+51)
Lab 1 (-40)
LD 1 (-10)
Con 0
(-1)
Who will try to get the best deal for Scotland at
Westminster?
Sturgeon 42%
Murphy 8%
Cameron 7%
Salmond 6%
Miliband 3%
Don't get too excited though. It won't happen like that. I'd be aiming for 30 seats, which in itself would be a fabulous achievement. Five times what they have at the moment.
But even Jim, so I am told, seems to be aware of his own vulnerability. According to a comment on Wings, he said that he will lead Labour into the General Election here next year, even if he loses his seat.
Wonder how Neil Findlay feels about that...
Labels:
Alistair Carmichael,
Jim Murphy,
Neil Findlay,
TNS,
Tom Harris,
Willie Bain
Sunday 26 April 2015
RANDOM THOUGHTS AND A NEW FRIEND
Earlier today, on the previous post, Anon suggested this blog post, and a response to it. I read the link and felt moved to offer a comment of my own. But as I started writing and the comment got longer and longer, I though it would make a reasonable post on Munguin's Republic. It drifted away from the topic a little perhaps, but, hey, that's how my mind works. For what it's worth, here it is. You might find it a little less disjointed if you read what inspired it first.
Gordon Brown apparently fails to see that if you have a finally
balanced referendum result in the offing; and if you then conspire with a Tory
prime minister, with only 1/59th of the representation of the
country, to deliver a 'vow', a package of measures previously specifically
ruled out by that very Tory prime minister, if that ‘vow’ changes enough
people's minds that they vote for the new "most devolved powers in the
entire world" otherwise described as "as near federalism as you can
get when one country in the state holds 85% of the population", and if, on
the day after the referendum, people find out that they have been duped by that
poorly represented Tory prime minister,
and the most trusted Scottish ex prime minister (EVEL, with which I
totally agree, but the Labour party doesn't, indeed electorally CANNOT), and if
in the following months a rfarce of a consultation takes place and
delivers almost none of what was promised… and that even those powers which
looked like coming, are watered down to
the point that they are all but
invisible, it is hardly surprising that there will be a distrust and
dislike of the party which guaranteed all of the above.
I realise that the British public is a deal less volatile
than some other, but at some point a desire for some sort of new
politics, something promised over and again at each general election and never
delivered, is bound to take a hold.
There comes a time
when there is a desire for a cessation of rule by a never changing elite, shown over and over to be corrupt to
the core in almost all aspects of its daily doings from the relatively trivial
attempts to line their pockets, and in doing so work against democracy (Straw,
when touting for future employment, as one recent example, admitted influencing
EU discussions on behalf of a client, when he was being paid by us to work for
the UK) , to the infinitely more serious matters of murder of children.
In Scotland, the somewhat distant London-based parties and
their "elder statesmen" should try to remember that it is not the SNP
(nor the Greens, the Scottish Socialists or Radical Independence) who are
behind this movement.
It is, in reality, the ordinary people of Scotland. It is,
as Jim Murphy called them, "Glasgow Man".
A demographic which was previous attached at the hip to
Labour, has seen, at long last, that Labour has no real interest in them, save
for using them to ensure the ongoing income and rise to the top of people like
Maggie Curran, Dougie Alexander, Jim Murphy, Iain Davidson and their likes.
Glasgow man has latterly come to the conclusion that for all
he has voted Labour for all these years, because as one guy said to me
"It's the party of the working man", he, Glasgow man, seems to have
become comparatively poorer, and conditions in which he lives, still produce
areas where life expectancy is well under 60 years, poorer than many parts of
the developing world, or war zones like Gaza.
Labour deserted Glasgow man because he was expendable. (Where else was he to go? The Tartan Tories, a reputation they liked to foster, but based on something from the dim and distant past?)
For
power, as Mandelson said, you had to get the vote of the Home Counties and the
South East, and you weren't going to get that spending their taxes on poor
people in social housing in inner-city Glasgow or Dundee.
What actually has happened is that Labour has moved farther
and farther to the right. Would Keir Hardie recognise Labour now?
Possibly the final insult (and one predicted as a disaster by many on the
left of Labour) was the election for some weird reason, of a right wing,
Blairite, Henry Jacksonite, war enthusiast, Scottish branch leader. Loathed by
the left, almost as much as Blair himself is, his election marked the real end
of Labour in Scotland. We told you we wanted to move to the left, and you elected a right winger for the leader... What?
It happened more or less at the same time as the most left
leaning, anti war, pro equality, leader of the SNP ever, came to power. In
Scotland the Tories being nowhere; the Liberals now a part of history; UKIP
having managed a brief success in the EU elections, only to have themselves
represented by an ignorant racist who doesn't even live in Scotland, and has a particularly
virulent strain of foot in mouth disease, the new real politic, as Curran would
call it, is Labour on the right, SNP on
the left.
The grandees of the Labour party need to look to themselves
for their failures, rather than blame the SNP for their success. Labour ceased
to be the party of the working man a long time ago. If you don’t represent your
constituency, there comes a time when they will go vote for people who
will...people whose agenda is not dictated by the need to win Tory seats in the
South East of England.
And frankly it doesn't help if your top people from both the
main English parties having begged us to stay with them, are now saying pretty much the same things about Scotland not having the
right to send SNP members to London. Exercise your right to vote for whom you want, under our FPTP system, and you will cause a crisis.
Seriously, if they haven’t worked out how damaging that is
to their cause, no wonder they are in the tanks.
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Yesterday Munguin and I made a new friend. We had a great afternoon talking politics with one of our family of readers. AH, Abu Haimi, came all the way from Malaysia to see Scotland and, obviously, Munguin. Thanks for coming to Dundee and spending the afternoon in what I know was a really hectic schedule. It was a great afternoon, and I hope we'll have more time together next time you're here. Safe journey home for you and your lovely family, AH.
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I'm not much of an historian, but I seem to recall reading that the Daily Mail was relatively supportive, at least for a time, of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.
Neither am I much of a royalist, but I also seem to recall reading that one very spoilt and unpleasant prince they had in the 1930s, a man who appeared to be incapable of keeping his clothes on for any length of time if there were married women available to bed, when he found he couldn't have his own way about marrying his bit on the side, who had a history of "trading up" her partners for something better, a certain Mrs Simpson, decided to reject the crown of England and his destiny as king, in favour of aforesaid woman.
It seems that they too as were pleased to be received as a royal duke (and ex-King) and his not so royal wife, to meet with Adolf Hitler.
It might well then, have suited the Daily Mail for Edward VIII, an apparent Nazi sympathiser, and his pushy wife, to stay on the throne. So for them the abdication was, indeed, a real crisis. They lost their man and got George VI and his formidable wife instead.
Whilst we are on the subject, don't you think some people should probably take more water with it:
Now Kezia, you really can't say you weren't warned, when the First Minister herself told you. So presumably, like a good manager, you have been monitoring his tweets. What do you think if this doozie?
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Finally, let's spare a thought, and maybe some money, for the terrible disaster of the Nepalese Earthquake.
Labels:
Adolph Hitler,
Establishment,
Glasgow Man,
Gordon Brown,
Ian Smart,
Jack Straw,
Jim Murphy,
King Edward VIII,
labour,
Mrs Simpson,
Nepal
Saturday 25 April 2015
SUNDAY IS NATURE DAY
Friday 24 April 2015
THE MUNGUIN LETTERS
Munguin Towers Penthouse
April 25, 2015
Dear Food Banks
I'm sure that you will delighted to know that, as a result of yet another intervention from that ex-politician (although to be fair I suppose we should call him a double ex politician now), there is good news for people who are in danger of starving to death in what they tell us is the world's 8th largest economy.
Gordon Brown has promised that, should Labour be in a position of power after the General Election, he will personally ensure that each and every food bank in Scotland will receive the sum of £5,000.
This will be rather like, I suspect, he ensured devolution super max, home rule and the best devolved settlement of any country in the world last September. (Note to Tris. Find out how that went, will you?)
Mr Brown also says that if he or Jim Murphy had been in power (ah, if only) he would have dealt with the situation right away. He cannot understand why the SNP and the Conservatives haven't.
Gordon rides to the rescue, as ever. Having saved the world, from the ham fisted efforts of Darling; then having saved Better Together from the ham fisted efforts of... oh dear, Darling again, he will save the hungry of Scotland. At least that cannot be laid at the feet of Darling, can it?
Anyhow, your problems are over, Food Banks. Tell your normal donors that they can stand down for the foreseeable future... well, for a couple of days anyway.
Hunger, we can announce, is a thing of the past in this oil rich nation of ours. Just as it is in Norway.
Rejoice at that news.
Yours sincerely
Munguin.
(Note to Tris: Extend invitation to Brown to come and take tea with you to show our gratitude. I'm busy that day. Munguin.)
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Dear Ruth Davidson,
I understand that the London Tories have come up with this poster which depicts Scots as thieves of British cash. The idea may have come when the English Tory leader suggested that he wouldn't trust Alex Salmond not to pinch his wallet.
Can you confirm to us at Munguin's Republic that you will not allow these distasteful posters to appear in our country and that you will speak to Mr Cameron about having them banned in his country too.
Can you please address your response to my PA, Tris.
Yours sincerely,
Munguin.
Labels:
Food Banks,
Gordon Brown,
Jim Murphy,
labour,
Ruth Davidson
Thursday 23 April 2015
Friday's Fotos
Yep, that's a good question. |
Oh look. That's so sweet. The colour co-ordinated his tie and her straight jacket. |
This is made from the waste on our plates over the last few weeks. I hope you like truffles, foie gras and chocolate chip ice cream. |
Just who is that going to help in the election then? |
They are doping brisk business with balloons... |
You can always trust the Sun to tell you the erm...truth... |
Bless him, I bet he wishes he'd avoided pressing that flesh. |
Nigel wrote it when he was pissed. Only explanation. Either that or they really are dim as 1/2w lightbulbs. |
One can't help but assume that their policy is to bring down the costs of sickness benefit by any measure available, including killing off the sick. |
Oooops, Ed. How embarrassing. |
Erm, let's see. Oh yeah. Richard Benyon? |
Look like they are all bursting with enthusiasm. You musta fired them up good there Jim. |
How's that working out then? |
Anything rather than vote on horrible left wing socialist policies... eh Jim? |
Keep him there Nicola. He can't cause too much more hardship and misery when he's wetting his pants standing on the kitchen chair. |
I'm betting that's done your campaign a power of good, Alex, petal. |
Certainly weren't heard by you, you heartless old bitch. |
Labels:
British Labour,
David Cameron,
Ed Miliband,
Gordon Brown,
Jim Murphy,
Mrs Cameron,
Mrs Thatcher,
The Sun,
UKIP
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