tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post8527992385293893250..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: PINK ELEPHANTS!Munguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-39518968765173396092016-09-06T23:23:53.454+01:002016-09-06T23:23:53.454+01:00Blair, or possibly he slit its wrists or induced a...Blair, or possibly he slit its wrists or induced a heart attack in it at the top of the hill...<br /><br />Not that I would want to suggest that he would do that to any person. <br /><br />Goodness no.<br /><br />Only an elephant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-8269908028646330282016-09-06T18:09:57.495+01:002016-09-06T18:09:57.495+01:00Who shot the elephant in the room - the Chilcott e...Who shot the elephant in the room - the Chilcott enquiry?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889763000397430323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-15653557060657151682016-09-06T10:05:49.887+01:002016-09-06T10:05:49.887+01:00Thanks Terry. It wouldn't be the Labour Party ...Thanks Terry. It wouldn't be the Labour Party if it weren't complicated. The plans get rid of 50 seats (presumably to be made up by lords). Most of the seats, as far as I can tell are Labourish and a few are SNP.<br /><br />Clearly some will have to go. (Awwwwwwww)<br /><br />It will be interesting to see how it works out figures wise.<br /><br />Hopefully some people will be made to realise that if they stand, they are on their own.<br /><br />I know that if I were Labour and lived in a constituency where they had plotted against Corbyn, I'd be incredibly unlikely to pound the streets so that they could get another five years of the big money.<br /><br />By the same token, if Corbyn wins decisively then you'd ask yourself how could they possibly stay in a party with which they are so fundamentally at odds?<br /><br />It's like asking Farage to stay in a party that welcomed refugees.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-62600650199923784092016-09-05T23:15:05.502+01:002016-09-05T23:15:05.502+01:00I was kind of 25% right and 75% wrong about select...I was kind of 25% right and 75% wrong about selection after boundary changes. I found some blog posts about this and the rules are more complex than you might imagine. It will all end up in court, I assume, like everything else in the Labour Party. Basically, the greater the decrease in the number of constituencies the greater the contention for constituency nominations. If it is just a slight redrawing of boundaries then all sitting MPs just shuffle to the constituency most like the old one.<br /><br />http://www.wikihow.com/Deselect-Your-Labour-MP#Deselecting_an_MP_after_Constituency_Boundaries_Change_subTerryEntourehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02588265423949347758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-7385484331351195672016-09-05T22:34:09.054+01:002016-09-05T22:34:09.054+01:00I've not heard that, bu I guess as everything ...I've not heard that, bu I guess as everything will change... or much of it will, then reselection seems sensible. In my opinion it should always happen.<br /><br />I suspect that many of them should start looking around now for all the people that owe them... merchant banks, etc.<br /><br />Mind that might mean moving to Dublin or Luxembourg.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-26273376133256653532016-09-05T22:02:42.188+01:002016-09-05T22:02:42.188+01:00I read somewhere that Labour constituency candidat...I read somewhere that Labour constituency candidates must undergo a selection process after boundary changes. There is an ongoing review of constituency boundaries right now that is expected to be complete before the next election. That being true, it sort of explains the current acts of desperation from most of the PLP. There's no need for Corbyn to be aggressive in his dealings with his colleagues and certainly no need to threaten deselection of expulsion. All he has to do is wait. I'd say he is pretty good at that. TerryEntourehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02588265423949347758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-70646392877063839902016-09-05T21:52:57.669+01:002016-09-05T21:52:57.669+01:00Niko.
Take more water with it
Niko.<br /><br />Take more water with it<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-89442831299217515742016-09-05T20:50:07.889+01:002016-09-05T20:50:07.889+01:00Ah Niko. I wondered where you'd been all day. ...Ah Niko. I wondered where you'd been all day. I thought maybe Taz wouldn't let you out of the cupboard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-50101828884204009822016-09-05T20:47:09.049+01:002016-09-05T20:47:09.049+01:00Both good points, Bruce & SA.
I think that if...Both good points, Bruce & SA.<br /><br />I think that if we wish to be credible.. ie that we accepted the result in 2014, we must at least try to give the Scottish people what they voted for... membership of the UK and of Europe.<br /><br />To that end Nicola is prepared to break sweat trying to influence the EU and UK to take on board Scottish views.<br /><br />If it fails then Scots have to make up their minds. You can't have both, which one do you want?<br /><br />I seriously think that Nicola is the best we have. It's a talented team, but undoubtedly Nicola is a great leader.<br /><br />Maybe not the only one... there are some fantastic people in the wings waiting... but a real star. Just my opinion.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-90442879103006849832016-09-05T20:38:23.112+01:002016-09-05T20:38:23.112+01:00Spartacus how did that end but with him and all ...Spartacus how did that end but with him and all his<br />followers crucified along the appian way Nikostratoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06581441869560921339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-16375584357851490182016-09-05T20:33:09.064+01:002016-09-05T20:33:09.064+01:00anti-SNP and ultra-unionist....ticks my boxes
That...anti-SNP and ultra-unionist....ticks my boxes<br />That what you need to defend yourself from<br />Uber nationalists.who are intend on imposing<br />themselves and their wicked ideology in peoples<br />private homes.. Nikostratoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06581441869560921339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-55102973227300806182016-09-05T20:30:14.690+01:002016-09-05T20:30:14.690+01:00The ramifications of Brexit are not confined to th...The ramifications of Brexit are not confined to these islands. American policy has been to bind all the Europeans - and Turkey - into an economic block. That is why the Brits were so keen on East European members. Now America's number one poodle is going to leave ( maybe ), the influence of France - more independent thinking - will be ascendant. Not good for Washington I'd have thought.<br /><br />There is a risk that the whole thing will collapse if too much is seen to be given to the Brits. The German economy has flourished in the single currency. No longer is their currency hard as nails. Increases in efficiency lead to greater profits for their companies, not just a necessity to survive. It is not in German mercantile interest for this project to fail.<br /><br />The Eastern nations genuinely fear Russia. Anyone who visits Finland will actually begin to think a single army is worth considering. And the Baltic republics fear the bear more than that. It is not in their interest for the project to collapse.<br /><br />Nicola's reported comments do concern me. I don't think the deal which will be offered will suit Scotland. I hope the other 27 hold out for the 4 freedoms. I would note that at hustings, all the Depute candidates speak not of if, but of when we are holding Indy2. It is definitely on the agenda. It is down to the timing now.<br /><br />So instead of us all being introspective, can we instead all just get signed up to Yes chapters again. Over 80% of the SNP membership came from there. We are all Spartacus. Nicola will take us where we want to go, but we need to show her where that is. And we need to go out and win the argument.<br /><br />Irreplaceable people get replaced all the time. Scotland is not Nicola Sturgeon. If we want this it is up to us to get it.<br /><br />Alba Gu Brath!<br /><br />S.A.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-66949165743400711302016-09-05T19:50:40.419+01:002016-09-05T19:50:40.419+01:00oh goody I thought - 11 comments only to find out ...oh goody I thought - 11 comments only to find out half were about flowers!<br /><br />I agree with Tris and Bruce - fools rush in, but when the brexit deal is finalised there will be little time to start from scratch so the ground work has to start now. The arguments laid out after some heavy duty devil's advocating. MSM will be as hostile as before if onto more so.<br /><br /><br />I agree we'd lose again if the poll was soon though by a smaller margin. However, I've spoken with a hard No who is now a definite yes so not all dire. <br /><br />Now no thinking of pink elephants... <br />panda pawsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-22959080868336068752016-09-05T18:13:39.158+01:002016-09-05T18:13:39.158+01:00Tris
The single market does mean more to Scotland...Tris<br /><br />The single market does mean more to Scotland but the UK market is 10 times that and you can bet that the UK market will be their main fear tactic in an indy2 so our arguments have to be bloody good to convince the soft no's and I just don't believe we are anywhere near that. When I talk to soft no voters they still fear losing what little they have, that is a powerful argument.<br /><br />I appreciate the SNP's popularity can't last forever but it will for the next 5 years so time to a degree is on our side. labour sadly will play a part and what happens in their civil war is important. If Labour came out for independence it would be important, they don't have a lot of members but psychologically it would be huge to the debate.<br /><br />We have too much to lose to rush.<br /><br />BruceGrumpy Scottish Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00804827054434626550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-69803778766671119932016-09-05T18:04:29.568+01:002016-09-05T18:04:29.568+01:00I think the Tories bang on about it becasue they h...I think the Tories bang on about it becasue they have nothing else.<br /><br />What policies do you actually have Ruth?<br /><br />All you really did was say that no one else could be trusted with the union, because Kez at one point said that she wouldn't force her MSPs to be unionists. Clearly Ruth DOES force her MSPs to be unionist.<br /><br />I guess that a lot of Labour minded voters are pro independence, and far fewer Ruthies (or Tories, as they used to be called).<br /><br />I truly am torn. The SNP can't go on forever being as popular as they are (the latest opinion polls show that if they went again to the polls they'd have 72 seat). So maybe this is peak. But until we can be certain we will win, it's not a risk I'm sure we should take.<br /><br />There's no doubt in my mind that we must work hard to try to gt the best possible deal regarding the EU. The single market means more to Scotland and Northern Ireland than it does to England. The loss of income from social grants, farm subsidies, university research, etc will hit us far harder. <br /><br />I have a feeling that with the incredible incompetence of the London government, totally unprepared for this result and without a clue what they want (split by it) and with expectation WAY beyond what is even vaguely reasonable, and led by Johnson, Davies and Werrity-Fox, all born or adopted South-Easterners, we are unlikely to get any kind of deal.<br /><br />Scotland may demand a seat at the table, but Johnson is the senior man, and frankly everything he has ever said about our country has indicated that he loathes it.<br /><br />We can't expect to have much sway. We have 8% of the population.<br /><br />When things start to fall apart, maybe that will be the right time for another referendum.<br /><br />As for now, we have to listen to Tompkins making an ass of himself over how the people have spoken, to which he seems wedded, except when he comes WAY down the list in the constituency voting... then it's a case of turning a VERY deaf ear.<br /><br />For a professor he ain't half dim!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-51202310708150227942016-09-05T17:32:43.133+01:002016-09-05T17:32:43.133+01:00Pa
Interesting article and I was thinking a simil...Pa<br /><br />Interesting article and I was thinking a similar thing the other day about why the unionists can't stop banging on about Indy Ref 2 and the only thing I can come up with is they believe they would win. I think they are right to feel that way. Rushing too quickly into indy2 I think plays straight into their hands as right now we would lose.<br /><br />While Scotland may have voted to remain in the EU, and this is being seen as a material change, which it is, many YES supporters voted leave, myself included. Any rush into another referendum on the back of brexit before the details are clear will result in defeat and kill off the independence movement for a long long time, maybe forever in any meaningful way.<br /><br />I have blogged that we need to take a deep breath and let the dust settle, esp on brexit. That doesn;t mean we don't hold another referendum, nothing could be further from my mind, but if we lose 2 back to back then it's finished in my lifetime. The SNP are correct to play this slow and easy right now, no matter what the members and Craig Murray say, timing is going to be vital. The unionists know this and they are trying to force our hand, their polling was better than the YES movement the last time and I do not believe for one minute that Better Together is not working away in the background. On a smaller scale yes but it has not gone away, remember they have virtually all of the msm on their side.<br /><br />It's also important to remember that the British wrote the book on this sort of thing. I think I read somewhere that after the Catholic Church the British Empire were the next best thing to information gathering, maybe not know but we wrote the book so the unionists have been here before and we had better keep that in mind. They are playing a game and right now are playing us, it's all very sutble. Like the Daily Mail front page last week on the GERS figures with a huge picture of William Windsor as the side story, you are not telling me that this is not deliberate mind games, of course it is. We need to be careful.<br /><br />Churchill didn't accept the freedom of Dundee because he thought it would split the City, while the councillors as usual wanted to do it and have all the pomp, the people of Dundee were very split so he declined. A previous Lord Provost explained it to me a while back and I think that makes sense. <br /><br />Good blog, thanks.<br /><br />BruceGrumpy Scottish Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00804827054434626550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-80049385010856209162016-09-05T16:57:24.693+01:002016-09-05T16:57:24.693+01:00I think, come the war, he was a good PR man.
It w...I think, come the war, he was a good PR man.<br /><br />It wouldn't work today, but his plumy upper class voice brought comfort to the people who were in fear, along, I'd have to admit, with that of the King, whom they seemed to adore.<br /><br />Different times.<br /><br />As a soldier he was hopeless; as a commander, a nightmare, as a PR man, for the times he seems to have been splendid!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-77013252424760409212016-09-05T16:55:15.513+01:002016-09-05T16:55:15.513+01:00Ah...
Well I must away and have a look.
Arbroath...Ah...<br /><br />Well I must away and have a look.<br /><br />Arbroath: We had a wee wager that Jutie could/couldn't get a hibiscus to flower in Dundee. It appears that I lost and i owe him!<br /><br />Ho hum...It's for charity, as I recall!<br /><br />Anyways our dear PP has written a good post here... <br /><br />What thinkest thou?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-66867183426697456062016-09-05T16:48:42.564+01:002016-09-05T16:48:42.564+01:00Dundee had a much better idea of having a statue o...Dundee had a much better idea of having a statue of Desperate Dan than one of Churchill.<br />Despite his efforts,Churchill that is,he didn't bring much cheer into people's lives.<br />After the fiasco in Gallipoli,my grandfather absolutely despised him (the malaria he contracted there may have had something to do with that).<br />I have thought for some time that Glasgow City chambers should have a statue of Marx (Groucho that is) outside inscribed with the famous quote about his shifty principles.<br />bringitonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10712089398887269381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-22374157257453015122016-09-05T14:09:45.286+01:002016-09-05T14:09:45.286+01:00Just a small wager between myself and Tris from ea...Just a small wager between myself and Tris from earlier in the year.<br />He actually doubted my green fingers. Photo sent, Tris. :-)Jutemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11061671774494923407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-72930540031258297802016-09-05T13:56:04.138+01:002016-09-05T13:56:04.138+01:00Have I missed something here ... looks awfully lik...Have I missed something here ... looks awfully like Gardening our on here. LOLArbroath 1320https://www.blogger.com/profile/13806122610041540646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-40738489503620143812016-09-05T13:35:27.443+01:002016-09-05T13:35:27.443+01:00Speaking of loss, two of the buds on one of my blu...Speaking of loss, two of the buds on one of my blue hibiscus have just opened, and a bud on the yellow one will be next. :-)Jutemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11061671774494923407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-75495873647955371842016-09-05T13:08:10.659+01:002016-09-05T13:08:10.659+01:00His loss!His loss!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-69948509276133486852016-09-05T12:56:06.778+01:002016-09-05T12:56:06.778+01:00After the war, Churchill was being offered the fre...After the war, Churchill was being offered the freedom of nearly every city in the UK. When offered the honour by Dundee, he was reputed to have said that he would see grass growing on the streets of Dundee before he returned to that damned city. GIRUY Churchill. :-)Jutemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11061671774494923407noreply@blogger.com