tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post6172636086217934111..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: SPIVS AND INCOMPETENT NINCOMPOOPSMunguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-44628036276668283162012-06-20T00:29:22.415+01:002012-06-20T00:29:22.415+01:00Ha ha ha ha ha CH ... Silly old trout.
Does she e...Ha ha ha ha ha CH ... Silly old trout.<br /><br />Does she ever get anything right?<br /><br />I reckon they should ditch her. She's a walking disaster for Labour.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-81263389247626273562012-06-20T00:23:43.475+01:002012-06-20T00:23:43.475+01:00Niko:
It wasn't petty.
The Olympics are happ...Niko:<br /><br />It wasn't petty.<br /><br />The Olympics are happening 600 miles away. For most of us getting to them, even if you could get a ticket, is outside the bounds of possibility. Hotels have put prices up to astronomical levels (not that they weren't already twice that of Paris or Edinburgh).<br /><br />All the money (our money) that was spent was spent there; all the contracts went, quite rightly, to local firms. Scotland got nothing. Neither for that matter did Cornwall, Wales, Ireland or the North of England. However, to make us believe that we are all in this together, we are supposed to get wildly excited when we can't get home from work because the roads have been closed to allow this torch (which doesn't have an Olympic history but was dreamt up by Hitler's head of Propaganda for the 1936 games, because it symbolised everything that was Arian) to make its progress up and down the country. Because Lord Sir Sebastian Coe, MBE, OBE, CBE wants us to feel that we are all in it together. A big society sort of thing.<br /><br />As it happens the SNP is very much FOR the games and the Sports Minister has praised the few matches that Glasgow is hosting for London with enthusiasm. <br /><br />However, SNP or no SNP, the thing has been hyped to high doh and I laughed my socks off when they were talking about it in Edinburgh. The BBC had some woman up on the castle ramparts telling us how there were throngs of people... and the backdrop was of half empty seats.<br /><br />It has been used as propaganda. (Goebbels knew a thing or two. )No doubt about it. The jubilee and the Olympics, union jack waving... and it has affected public perception. But they can't keep that up for two years...although I imagine that they will arrange for Harry to get married and Katie to have a baby, to persuade us of our great joy...And it's not just about Scotland and independence. They want the majority of the people in the UK...in places where there is no independence debate to forget how much they are having to go without.<br /><br /><br />Not petty, Niko...just practical.<br /><br />But you're right about Cameron, although he gets his horses from News International.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-26477816586780946442012-06-19T23:17:21.215+01:002012-06-19T23:17:21.215+01:00Its in the genes.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZG14pmpHBw&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">Its in the genes.</a>cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-84605659284382074842012-06-19T21:38:16.995+01:002012-06-19T21:38:16.995+01:00tris
They are Etonians (OE) as becky cams mate l...tris<br /><br /><br />They are Etonians (OE) as becky cams mate like to say and have no more concern for the common soldier etc that they would a worn out nag..well even less..err! much less<br /><br />tris<br /><br />all that about the Olympic torch is just well petty and i didn't have you down as petty.....<br /><br />No one is going to vote for or against seperation on the basis of a torch or the Queen waving from Buck palace balcony.......<br />Umm! are they????Nikostratoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06581441869560921339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-54992842344346655042012-06-19T16:56:07.118+01:002012-06-19T16:56:07.118+01:00Aye John, the recruitment team was out in Dundee t...Aye John, the recruitment team was out in Dundee the other day in preparation for our share of the Olympics... half an hour with THE TORCH ('scuse me while I sit down and get my emotions under control). This must be like private industry when they sack people and then take others on on a totally new contract at half the money and with no pension rights.<br /><br />[Incidentally, talking of the torch, despite what they said about the success of the torch in Dundee, it was a rainy day; they expected a crowd of at least 3,000 and had catered for 5,000. Fewer that 2,000 actually turned up, but left the most almighty mess... enough for at least 10,000, as they discarded the freebies that the sponsors had put in bags for them.]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-45787533682811032372012-06-19T15:42:08.922+01:002012-06-19T15:42:08.922+01:00I'm sure I saw an advert on TV for Royal Marin...I'm sure I saw an advert on TV for Royal Marines the other night. Are they looking for what they would regard as cheaper cannon fodder?John Brownliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03248027418059598116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-8889539980717544762012-06-19T13:39:57.750+01:002012-06-19T13:39:57.750+01:00Spivving comment Munguin.
I can't disagree wi...Spivving comment Munguin.<br /><br />I can't disagree with anything you said there.<br /><br />We have to persuade Scots to listen to the real arguments so that we can strike out on our own and bin this appalling society we have become a part of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-31804025118518266452012-06-19T09:00:09.454+01:002012-06-19T09:00:09.454+01:00It seems that the spivs have been in charge of the...It seems that the spivs have been in charge of the lunatic asylum that is the English Government (it’s OK to refer to it as such, as the good Lord Leveson did at his inquiry, and if it’s good enough for him it’s good enough for me) since 1979 when the manic Spiv-in-Chief got her hands on the levers of power. Since then we have had a succession of them in both blue and pink hues. It seems to involve either privatisation or part privatisation to other friendly spivs who will deliver the quid pro quo later on when the public have got totally sick of them and stopped voting for them. But what a choice the pink spivs or the blue spivs, now joined by the yellow spivs as a wholly owned adjunct to the blue spivs (at the moment)!<br /><br />The sooner Scotland gets off that Spiv-a-go-round the better! Then we might have a chance at a competent government that does what it says (or tries to) with none of the attachments of pointless wars and nuclear weapons to keep the leader of a different country at the world top table. And none of the moronic agenda led crusades that lurch the whole nation from left to right in (if you will excuse the mixed metaphor) ever decreasing circles as the gap between the pink and blues gets ever smaller!Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.com