RANDOM THOUGHTS

Well, would you?

Where on earth did they find him?

If you wrote a farce based on these people, producers would tell you to go away and try again.

The will of the Scottish people they are always on about seems to be of  much less importance sometimes.

British Rights. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oxymoronic.

Pretty much sums it up.

I'm sure Kez is on it now.

I tweeted this to the Met.  If Wings is in trouble for calling the McFadyen hack  from the Daily Diana 'a disgrace', shouldn't these people be in prison for plotting assassination? Certainly, I'd be wanting to know what Kemp had cooking.

Says the man who's never been right about anything, ever. A failure on several continents. I bet when someone asks if he wants tea or coffee he calls it wrong!

DEAR MRS MAY...

...CAN I PLEASE HAVE A JOB?

I'm not going to be getting into the rights and wrongs of an English railway company's policy in transferring responsibility for the opening and closing of doors on their trains, becasue frankly I don't know enough about how they operate to make an informed decision on safety, or on the likelihood of the guards being paid off, or having their hourly rate reduced, because of lower levels of responsibility.

But I really never thought to see a Labour man encourage the Tories to crush the unions, unless of course he thought that in highlighting the problem he could perhaps encourage some votes for Mr Corbyn to transfer to the right winger Owen Whatsit.

I wonder what McTernan does for a living these days. 

I know he was employed by Jim Murphy in the run up to, and the duration of, his extremely brief period as leader of the Scottish branch office. What happened when Murphy was, shall we say, less than successful in that role, is unclear, but McTernan seemed to be persona non grata at the court of Kez. And who could wonder at that...she didn't have 40 seats to lose. (Although even without McTernan's help she managed to lose 13!)

He now writes a column for the mad twins at the Daily Telegraph, but we suspect that that would hardly keep body and soul together. Private Eye reported that the remuneration for his ex-colleague, "Bomber" Tom Harris, doing exactly the same job, was as little as £20,000. 

He is also an "associate" of this organisation!

But who knows. Maybe McTeacake has desires to return to the front line. And why not the Tory Party? After all he can be credited with a few massive coups for them already as Scottish Labour will testify.

And... While describing himself as a "socialist", McTernan has expressed an extensive range of views inimical to traditional Labour ideology, such as advocating privatisation of the NHS and London Underground, calling for the widespread closure of libraries, opposing the Living Wage, demanding a third invasion of Iraq and opposing renationalisation of railways, despite those positions being contrary to official party policy). In 2015 the left-wing Labour MSP Neil Findlay accused McTernan of being willing to "say anything in the media for money"

And his Wikipedia page (above) shows that his soul is already theirs!

YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS HORRIBLY WRONG...

...WHEN IT'S ENDORSED BY THIS BLOKE

For the full sorry story head to the Daily Torygraph, where Blairites has-beens  like McTeacake and Bomber Harris  feel at home, for very little money.

WHY IS HE ASKED TO COMMENT...IS IT FOR COMEDIC VALUE?

The inept, bumbling prediction disaster that is McTeacake gets it spectacularly wrong, yet again. 

I bet that Eagle managed to get through that cock up of a campaign launch which was arranged to coincide with the anointment of the reincarnation of Thatcher, and to which, consequently no one came, and thought to herself ... well, in the words of that old New Labour ditty, "Things can only get Better".

Then she saw that McTernan was rooting for her, and just knew, without any shadow of doubt, that her best bet would be to throw in the towel.

I KNOW I SAID THE LAST ONE WAS THE LAST ONE

BUT THIS REALLY IS THE GIFT THAT KEEPS GIVING

He's like the uncle you have to invite at Christmas knowing he'll get drunk and wet his pants. Yes, it's foot in mouth king, John McTernan. Not content with ruining Murphy's chances, he's now ruining Kezia's.

This is how it works folks.

Round and round and round it goes; where it stops nobody knows

Lord knows who looks after Liz's money, but I'm sure that Cameron's Business Czar does her own investing. Imagine her going to Coutts!

Along with the odious Heather Mills, Simon Cowell  and Paul Burrell, Sarah of York is named in Panama Papers.

JUST A FEW RANDOM THOUGHTS

Hmmm. Wee change of mind then, Gordo? 

I'd not do the horses if I were you, George.

sooo, we're worse off, but you're a Lord.
I think we see what you were up to.

All that lovely Scottish money being spent in London.
All these top executives with six figure salaries.

Ridiculous organisation.
Should be reduced to one tv station and one radio station.
And a maximum of £10 licence fee.

Don't know which is worse!

Achievements? ...and you've had so many John.
Just look at Jim Murphy's bid to be FM.
Snigger

Dumb and Dumber?

Can't do it. Kez has already spent it on... oh, loads of stuff.

You have to wonder when it wasn't.

Be wary of big charities with big offices and
 eye watering salaries for their executives.
And watch out too for begging letters from charities that don't operate in Scotland. RSPCC; RSPCA, etc.

But we aren't building them for the old or the disabled, becasue they would cost too much money. We'll just need to find a bin for them.

Gross? On no, we couldn't stand 144 of them.

Here stands a proud man. 

One of Munguin's mates, I have no doubt.

Munguin's suggestion for replacing the Tories.

I see George's image consultant who got a 50% pay rise has left him standing pigeon toed or is that "toad"?.

You must run into old Nigel Lawson over there, Jon.
He's running 'Britain Out' from his home in France.

That is how it all works...

Any doubts now?

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED ... A BLOW TO THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE SCOTTISH BRANCH OFFICE

Maria Eagle has asserted her authority over Scotland and said that the London parliament is in charge of defence and therefore what the Scots decided, either at the Labour Party Branch Conference, or in the Scottish Parliament doesn't matter a fig. Trident renewal will go ahead.

Clearly Ms Eagle would rather spend £167,000,000,000 on murdering people and animals indiscriminately (you can't be too choosy with a nuclear missile... 'Oh mind old Mr Smith, he's 98 and good to children and animals...") than on conventional forces which are needed by hard pressed British forces in today's world of continual war.

Ms Eagle probably dreams that one day she will be the defence secretary in England and may be invited to stand on the same platform as people as important as the American Defense Secretary or the US Secretary of State. 

The rush of blood to the head that that brings about almost probably clouds her mind as to what else could be done in this rather deprived country with so many billions of pounds.

It is particularly unfortunate, not to say embarrassing, that the put down should come so soon after Kezia Dugdale announced that she and Jeremy Corbyn had reached an agreement to give Labour autonomy in their Scottish branch. Autonomy not granted to other branch offices. 

Baillie: She appears to be saying that the Labour MSPs are not voting out of conviction, but out of loyalty top the party conference?
So who are the actual warmongers?

She told the BBC that if Scotland and England decided to follow different policies on reserved matters, then she and Jeremy would get together and work out what was to be done... come to an accommodation, as it were. 

Clearly what is to be done and the accommodation to become to is that some English shadow cabinet politician tells Slab to shut up and sit down. I wonder how Jeremy and Kez came to that accommodation...

I'm reminded of Jim Murphy when he was banging his autonomy drum ("I need to ask no one for permission") and his "there will be no more cuts in Scotland's budget under a future Labour Government", which was met with incredulity and an immediate "back in your box, Spud" put down by his London bosses, Chukka Umunna, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, desperate to show English voters that they wouldn't be subsidising Scotland.

In the same way Maria clearly wants to reassure the English voters whom she needs to encourage to leave the Tories, that Britannia will continue to rule the world, under the watchful eye of America (or is it China now?) and that the WMDs will continue to be housed safely away from important centres of population, except Glasgow which doesn't matter because it's only full of jocks.

Ms Eagle is joined in this matter by her friend Ms Baillie and everyone friend, John McTernan (ex advisor to the last Labour branch office leader).

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John McTernan ‏@johnmcternan  3h

3 hours ago

John McTernan Retweeted Pete Wishart

We will continue to provide nuclear protection to all Scots regardless of their intellect

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That's interesting McT. Are you aware that your English leader (the REAL one as opposed to the pretendy Jock one) said he won't use nukes when he is PM? So we won't be protected at all if there's a Labour government. 

We just hope Kin Jong Un missed that statement.

Or are you planning, along with the top 1%, to get rid of Jeremy somehow?

Are you also aware that your hero, Tony Hague Blair said in his biography that the nuclear deterrent was all for show?

Baillie voted with the Tories and the Liberals against the government, the Greens and her own party to save the 560 jobs at Faslane, which she seems to have exaggerated into 13,000, with the world's biggest ever job creation scheme. Has she been talking to JK Rowling and getting Harry to magic them?

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PS: Please note that although I would have been entitled, virtue of the subject matter of this post to put up another picture of Baillie, I resisted the temptation... just for you guys!

McTERNAN OUT OF HIS DEPTH AS USUAL

I'd forgotten this excellent wee interview from Mr Snow with Galloway and McTernan. 

It never ceases to amaze me that people go to McT for an opinion on anything. He's almost physically attached to Blair and anyone who worships at his feet. Blair can do no wrong. Blair is perfection. Anyone could do the interview for him and take the fee, even a donkey. Actually on reflection a donkey would be far more agreeable, visually and aurally. 

I just thought you might fancy a wee laugh as Jon finished him off here.

Oh and, just how long after that interview did Blair resign, or was he sacked?

Another prediction bites the dust...

SNAPS ON SATURDAY

I've never doubted that he was an inspiration to people in the Second World War. He was a spin doctor of extraordinary talents, suitable for the times, where people expected to be spoken down to by their "betters", but I've also always suspected that he liked nothing better than to play at soldiers. He seems to have confirmed it.

We all know not to believe what we read in the papers.

Note: Please add "Must have no compunction about sending people to an early grave".

Proof positive that you can succeed by being sneaky rather than clever, lying through your teeth and cheating as much as you can on expenses. It works. Give it a try. Or we'll sanction you and you'll starve to death.

"Get back in your box and shut up Kez" signed John.

Superb interview. Some people can carry off obfuscation with some measure of success. Some just look hopelessly out of their depth. Guess which she was.

You never really know whether he is deceitful or just plain dim.
Probably a mixture.

Good way to start September.

Let's have none of this Gaelic nonsense on our police vehicles.
Only 1% of the population understands it.
Latin, on the other hand, is taught at Independent Schools ...
So 33% of MPs can understand it.

And they told us it was by the grace of God.

Seems a sensible way to generate  membership 

...or maybe she likes calling people liars and cheats...

Oh Harriet...you bit off more than you could chew.

Isn't history lovely?

I always suspected this. Isn't Harriet Harman a cousin of some sort
 to David Cameron?

You shall be judged by the company you keep.
So, Mugabe, you just went down in my estimation!

Some surprises there....Switzerland? Germany? New Zealand?

Oh, and 100% in Northern Ireland didn't vote Tory!
Not to mention 100% who didn't vote for the dross
and dregs you elevated to the aristocracy, or the rest of that
House of Ill-repute.
And while we're on, remind me how many voted for the Saxe Coburgs?