Munguin's Republic: Glasgow

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Sunday, 31 July 2016

MEANWHILE IN SCOTLAND...

WE HAD A WEE RALLY TOO

STV tweeted that "hundreds" were expected, but after a sound ridiculing on Twitter, changed it to "thousands"... That was wise of them.

Astoundingly, the cameras in George Square, operated by Glasgow City Council, stopped working just before the march was due to arrive there. Fortunately the council generously provided alternative viewing. Always good for us chippy Scots to see a Lord and master.

At least there was one camera working for a previous rally in the square.

Monday, 4 May 2015

WE'LL DO ANYTHING...WHATEVER IT TAKES

Following on from Jim Murphy's letter (in the last post) saying that Nicola Sturgeon will take away old people's pensions, we now read this:

If you can only win by doing this kind of thing, guys, and you are Labour... yeah, LABOUR, the party of people like Hardie and Maxton, you really have sold out to ...well, I dunno whom you've sold out to. The devil?

Even Tories would baulk at this crap...well, some of them anyway.

Them there's this:

AN SNP activist had to lock herself in a campaign office for her own safety after being terrorised by a gang of thugs.

The 12-strong group of men were walking behind an Orange Order flute band procession when they stopped to launch a tirade of abuse at a lone female volunteer inside the office in Glasgow and began banging on windows and kicking the door trying to get in.

While attacking the office in Dumbarton Road, the woman was verbally abused with shouts of “f*** your SNP”, “yous are a********” and “why don’t you get to f***”. However, they fled before police arrived.

The office is the campaign headquarters of SNP candidate for Glasgow North West Carol Monaghan who is challenging Labour’s John Robertson for a seat at Westminster in the General Election. [Read more]

Today, according to the press and the BBC, there was a riot in Glasgow. It was probably the smallest riot there has ever been in the history of the world; it involved no violence whatsoever and seemed to consist of some left wing nut case called Sean Clerkin, an ex Labour man with a grudge against Murphy (who knew it).

So Labour VIPs knew about it.
Maybe because they organised it?

Labour apparently blamed Campbell Gunn, an SNP employee, for alerting the activist to the location of Jim's "rally". I'm not sure why they thought Mr Gunn would have known about it. In any case he has denied any knowledge of it and demanded an apology.

The current theory is that it was some person from East Renfrewshire
Labour who was responsible. Who knows?

But, you know, actually, if you are having a rally, wouldn't you want it to be publicised to as many people as possible, so that...erm....people would come?

Novel for Jim maybe, but it works for Nicola.

Anyway, it has been covered by many different bloggers more competent than I am, including Craig Murray, Derek Bateman and Wings. I only mention it here, for two reasons...

Firstly, why does the press make such a deal of Murphy's 'riotette', when they make so little fuss about threats to old people's livelihoods, from Murphy or his henchmen, or intimidation from Orange Order thugs, whether in that Wings story, or at campaign rooms, as detailed above?

And secondly, I was wondering if it were possible that it was a stunt organised to achieve the sort of attention that Murphy once enjoyed on the 100 days tour.

Let's have a second egg situation without an egg? Another cunning plan from Baldrick?

There's nothing new under the sun, Jim.
You're just not man enough.

Frankly I think the bloke who shouted at Murphy today is an idiot. He played right into Labour's hands. It was exactly what Murphy wanted. Another boring rally with a dozen at most attendees, when he says the same thing over again and no one is listening to his message. Everyone can see that looking at the crowd (or lack thereof) that he gathers. What he can get is BBC and press coverage, for obvious reasons, you know, that the BBC is Labour's press office in Scotland and apart from a couple of notable exceptions the press hate the idea that Scots should have some say in the running of the UK.

Eddie Izzard and Jim being chased out of town
by a raging mob of three old people.

The Daily Mail article has just about every single detail of the story WRONG. It's a tissue of lies start to finish. The Tory press is lying for a so-called Labour MP.

Friday, 27 February 2015

Random Thoughts

Natalie with Humza

In an effort to get Glasgow Man back on board, Labour has been whinging about how mean the Government in Edinburgh has been to Scotland's biggest city.

That's the same Labour that only a few years ago, when it was in coalition with the Liberals, managed to give back money to London at the end of the year, presumably because everything was so peachy in Scotland (including Glasgow) that the money was simply not needed.

I'm not an expert on Glasgow but I'd lay money on it that there will have been some need that could have been fulfilled by that money that went back to London. After all you don;t have life expectancy rates lower than Gaza in a town that is all tickety boo!

Natalie McGarry, the SNP candidate for Glasgow East, Curran's seat, makes a good point .

Labour in Glasgow, she says, need to look to themselves for the perceived underspend in Glasgow.

The Government has had to spend half a £bn making the correct decision to mitigate the bedroom tax and other welfare cuts, but with a budget which has shrunk by 10% because of coalition cuts.

And let's not forget that the Labour Party at Westminster - and yes, that includes Margaret Curran MP - voted with the Tories just a month or so ago to a further £30bn of austerity cuts.

It's the circle of lies which annoys people. Budget cut at Westminster = budget cut at Holyrood = budget cut in councils. It's the inevitability of it which is damning. So if Labour vote with the Tories for increased cuts at Westminster, they are voting for increased cuts at Holyrood which essentially means they voted for cuts at council level. Some of them would like to correct the cuts by making you pay more council tax though. So, bankers cause the banking crisis, but both the Tories and Labour target ordinary folk to pay the price.

Well said, Natalie.

**********

I may be wrong but I thought that Labour in Scotland wanted
to means test university education?

**********

Well done, Gordon.
Not bad earnings for a humble son of the manse.
Makes Rifkind and Straw look like the paupers they
claim to be.

**********

A much younger Murphy in his spiritual home.

I read that Murphy has announced that he will indeed stand as the UK Labour candidate for East Renfrewshire in the UK general election.

Ruth Wishart wondered on Twitter what his constituents would think of that.

I'd say that they would, if they were thinking rationally, understand that they are being used to provide Murphy with a very generous salary and expenses for the next year and to provide him with the means by which he can continue to lead the Scottish branch office of the UK Labour Party.

In the wake of the scandals over Rifkind and Straw, it seems unlikely that Miliband will allow hiom to be both MP and MSP at the same time.

Munguin's mate Ted, met on line,
would make a better FM than Spud.!

I'm not sure I'd bother if I were him. I reckon he has about as much chance of being first minister next year as Munguin's mate Ted... and he's not even standing!

Monday, 22 December 2014

MISERY FOR GLASGOW

We were shocked to hear the news about the bin lorry running out of control, killing 6 people and injuring at least 8 more in central Glasgow today. So far it appears that the cause of the accident hasn't been identified, although a witness is reported to have said that the driver was slumped over the wheel of the lorry.

It's only just over a year since Glasgow was hit by tragedy when a helicopter crashed through the roof of the Clutha Bar.

I was following the story earlier on Twitter and I wanted to say it never ceases to amaze me what wonderful people Glasgow has. Taxi drivers were offering to take people home, or to hospital...for free. One guy said that if anyone needed a room for the night he had one spare...

Of course I'm sure that Glasgow is not unique in this; there are great people everywhere from Rothsay to Reykjavik to Rangoon. But Glasgow has certainly got their fair share of them. What warmth.

There's nothing comforting you can say when something like this happens. All across Scotland tonight people are thinking of you, Glasgow. Tonight we are all Weegies.

I should add that messages have been coming on Twitter from all sorts of people, The Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland sent his condolences, along with The Prime minister of the Uk, the leader of Plaid in Wales.

Just left Govan police station where I've been getting briefed on response to #georgesquare tragedy. My heart simply breaks for all affected

Nicola has just been briefed in the local police station and tweeted that she was heartbroken. I know it's a twee thing to say, but somehow tragedy at Christmas seems to be even worse than at other times, although of course if it affects you personally, it doesn't matter a damn when it is. It's just horrific.

Let's remember too the work of the fire, police and ambulance services and NHS Scotland.

Friday, 31 October 2014

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Ed was wondering where that woman, what's her name again... Jean, Joan...
Oh well, whatever... where was she?
She was supposed to be his warm up act.

As Labour was enjoying its Halloween Party last night in Glasgow, without its Scottish branch leader, without a real deputy leader (because he had resigned) and with a potential leader, Jim Iraq Expenses Murphy, dropping off a bag of food at the food bank before turning up at the £100 a plate dinner (although this has nothing to do with the fact that he's standing for the leadership), a far more important and select gathering was taking place at Munguin Towers.

It wasn't a £100 a plate
But this is lavish by Munguin's standards

Munguin himself threw a lavish, no expense spared, party for friends and a select band of supporters. Well, I say no expense spared...there was soup and some bread and beer... that counts as lavish in Munguin's world.

Another difference was that at this gathering no one had resigned, was in the process of resigning, or was intending to resign and no one had had the news that they were en route to meltdown.

The Pumpkin who decided to let Jim Murphy stand in his place

A pumpkin, the insides of which had just made soup, entertained Munguin's guests with tales of how he'd thought he might stand as leader of Labour, but for the fact that Jim had beaten him to it, and it wouldn't do for two pumpkins to be standing for the same job.

At the dinner in Glasgow, Ed Multiseed said that Labour would prevail and that appearing to lose 90% of their support, in two separate opinion polls, was nothing that they couldn't handle. So, there you go. Ed knows what he's up against and he'll manage it with his customary panache. And with right wing Jim as his branch manager, there's no danger that any nasty socialist policies will appear to put the nice middle class voters of the Home Counties in a state of fear and alarm.

Mr Miliband got a "warm" reception for his grand do for
rich people who can
afford a week's retirement pension for one meal

Outside the Glasgow gathering there was a demonstration against Blue Labour, and a collection for a local food bank. There were no crowds outside Munguin Towers. That's not Munguin's way. There was however, a collection inside the party for the local food bank.

Talking of which... Halloween is over, bonfire night is but a week away, and although we have been having Christmas thrown at us since late September, the real deal will be starting shortly.

British Christmas now lasts for 3 months of the year. We are exhorted by businesses to spend everything we have, and some that we don't have, on making sure that we all have the very best Christmas ever, and that seems to involve a gluttony of food drink and presents for everyone within a 5 mile radius.

So Munguin and Tris have a suggestion. We don't want to spoil anyone's fun, but we think that Christmas has gone over the top. There's a huge amount of waste, and at the same time, there are so many people who have nothing much to eat on a normal day, never mind Christmas day.

Even Iain Duncan Smith, on his £53 a week,
could have managed Munguin's dinner.
Probably would have been on expenses anyway.

So this year, instead of buying excessive amounts of food, drink and gifts, Munguin and Tris will be donating what they would have spent on presents for each other and all but their closest relatives, to the local food bank and to a local church which collects new toys for children who wouldn't otherwise have any.

We are not religious. It just seems the right thing to do...

It's the 31st October.
Where's the Command Paper?
Just asking...

PS: Alan sent us this which we thought was hilarious.

As is this exchange on Twitter originally between Lords McConnell and Foulkes. Dear or dear, when the artistos start to fall out...

George Foulkes ‏@GeorgeFoulkes 11 hours ago

Really sorry @LordMcConnell Henry McLeish & Andy Kerr unable to make Labour Fundraiser tonight but sure the 3 Amigos will rally to the flag

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