tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post1577487127860299853..comments2024-03-29T07:48:22.768+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Don't worry - Corbyn can't stop Labour destroying the worldJames Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-31884192299274821722015-10-02T06:14:36.757+01:002015-10-02T06:14:36.757+01:00In a sense I sympathise with Corbyn - it must be s...In a sense I sympathise with Corbyn - it must be so confusing, coming to Scotland. You're leading a party on life-support and yet (if you can get past Kez and the spin doctors) out there you can just about discern the very kind of progressive, energetic and radical force you've always believed in and which helped you get your new job, In terms of England's politics at least.<br /><br />The logical step would be to join with the indy movement or the very minimum go for broke for full home rule and build alliances with the SNP here (at also at Westminster as more natural political allies to beat your own right wing etc).<br /><br />But, like stopping Trident and so many other progressive ideas, the party and system are such that you just can't begin to make the moves you sense are necessary to give Labour even a smidgin of hope.<br /><br />What a missed opperchancity - ach well, we'll just have to do without and against Labour...punklinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12240834041115584095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-84733410778220456982015-10-01T12:52:49.769+01:002015-10-01T12:52:49.769+01:00Translation : the Scottish people didn't want ...Translation : the Scottish people didn't want the union, and Australia is specifically barred from NATO membership. James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-14048006085211217922015-10-01T10:35:21.626+01:002015-10-01T10:35:21.626+01:00The ruling did choose to join and Ausralia has a d...The ruling did choose to join and Ausralia has a deal with the USA.Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-12817161924478951682015-10-01T08:18:30.915+01:002015-10-01T08:18:30.915+01:00Scotland didn't choose its alliance in 1707.
...Scotland didn't choose its alliance in 1707.<br /><br />The point is that entering into an alliance is a two-way process. Australia can't join NATO (or NATSISO as we should really call it).James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-3525936216130634652015-10-01T01:03:21.403+01:002015-10-01T01:03:21.403+01:00I thought you were a nationalist James. Surely ind...I thought you were a nationalist James. Surely independent nations should choose their alliance like Scotland did 1707 and voted to remain 2014.Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-10252364933928870602015-09-30T22:57:00.908+01:002015-09-30T22:57:00.908+01:00They are already undermining him every day with th...They are already undermining him every day with the willing help of the MSM. I hope he's playing a waiting game and when the dust settles and the right wing PLP realise they need to go along with the 60% of their more left wing party who supported him, he'll slowly reintegrate his core values - and basically Keynesianism makes him about as much of a Commie as FDR and he got 4 terms. However, I may be totally wrong and the self destructive urge of the Labour Party combined with its blood lust when in internecine strife mode and it will just eat itself. People like Chuka Umunna, whose total commitment to his own career is inviolable, will be the enemy within. The real red Tories, that is. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-60408933251613024642015-09-30T22:46:06.682+01:002015-09-30T22:46:06.682+01:00The situation could arise where the representativ...The situation could arise where the representatives of the innocent millions knowing they could press the button and incinerate millions of other innocent people will take the chance knowing the other lot are weak, stupid and docile.Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-83511371170643030252015-09-30T22:34:18.233+01:002015-09-30T22:34:18.233+01:00Anon. You must have been the school bully. A good ...Anon. You must have been the school bully. A good old spanking for spelling mistakes.Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-78139797212776902732015-09-30T22:04:45.162+01:002015-09-30T22:04:45.162+01:00How dare you your very rude my IQ was measured at ...How dare you your very rude my IQ was measured at when I was at school in 1932 and it was nearly 90 which is less than 10 points below the average which is 100 so whose tha thickoe now?Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-51601569046840276092015-09-30T21:49:09.798+01:002015-09-30T21:49:09.798+01:00It's personally not personnally. Also, most pe...It's personally not personnally. Also, most people use the term abolition not abolishment. Spelling AND inadequate vocabulary, you just can't help displaying your low IQ, can you, Glasgow WC, you old thicko.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-39816635638122018372015-09-30T21:35:02.294+01:002015-09-30T21:35:02.294+01:00Not strange at all. We have it and (thankfully) ha...Not strange at all. We have it and (thankfully) haven't used it.<br /><br />And my point was that being anti-nuclear weapon does not necessarily make you a pacifist, as hard as pro-nuclear weapon people wish it was so. You are only a pacifist if you oppose all war altogether, I was urging against the conflation of the two, as if using nuclear weapons was the only possible military tactic. Johnnynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-46458680268786768862015-09-30T21:26:03.735+01:002015-09-30T21:26:03.735+01:00The problem is that as soon as the situation arose...The problem is that as soon as the situation arose where the PM could have to press the button then JC would be removed and a new PM installed who would incinerate millions of innocent people. There's no getting around the fact that Labour supports genocide. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-9401832120435341662015-09-30T20:27:58.484+01:002015-09-30T20:27:58.484+01:00Actually, the UK nuclear deterrent is operationall...Actually, the UK nuclear deterrent is operationally independent. Obviously, given that they use the same technology, the nuclear deterrents of both the UK and the US are intertwined, but there's nothing that could theoretically stop the UK from nuking New York. SLBMs use inertial guidance, so there's no way of jamming them.Stoatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-64783692921225945052015-09-30T19:32:58.038+01:002015-09-30T19:32:58.038+01:00James. Corbyn is not making proposals to put in th...James. Corbyn is not making proposals to put in the Labour manifesto the abolishment of the Monarchy. Until such time he should pay respect to his head of state. Wee Nicola did it recently at the Waverley Line opening. Personnally I think there should be a referendum on the Monarchy.Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-54214438675929825722015-09-30T18:44:54.433+01:002015-09-30T18:44:54.433+01:00The problem with Corbyn is that he doesn't lea...The problem with Corbyn is that he doesn't lead as soon as there is any signs of dissent he backs down. All the hope that was generated with his election has turned to dust already he has U turned with remarkable speed on everything I just hope that my fellow Scots don't fall for all this hollow claptrap.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06712693854913429452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-54621957117544334342015-09-30T18:31:54.470+01:002015-09-30T18:31:54.470+01:00Whether Russia respects it is not the issue. The ...Whether Russia respects it is not the issue. The question is whether eastern European countries should ever have been invited to join NATO. It's a geographically-based organisation and the majority of countries around the world are not even eligible for membership. It would have been perfectly reasonable at the end of the Cold War to say "this is a western European and North American alliance, and for the stability of Europe that's the way it should stay".James Kellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-88626998093255516762015-09-30T18:19:29.184+01:002015-09-30T18:19:29.184+01:00"They don't *have* Trident. If they did t...<i>"They don't *have* Trident. If they did they'd use it."</i><br /><br />Evidence for that claim? It seems wildly speculative. They might just as plausibly keep it in reserve as a "deterrent", and use the breathing space to consolidate their rule.James Kellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-68314224958521924752015-09-30T18:11:56.639+01:002015-09-30T18:11:56.639+01:00" yer I.S. types don't use Tridents but y..." yer I.S. types don't use Tridents but you wouldn't go around calling them pacifists now, would you?"<br /><br />Ehm. They don't *have* Trident. If they did they'd use it. Strange argument.commentorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10321173541321374705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-56259062800771094242015-09-30T16:50:29.982+01:002015-09-30T16:50:29.982+01:00"Whatever prevents a war between Russia and t..."Whatever prevents a war between Russia and the West is what makes Lithuania safer...." <br /><br />Appeasing a bully nation like Russia will not make Lithuania and its neighbours safer in the long-run - Russia will just see that as a sign of weakness.<br /><br />If a sovereign country like Lithunania wishes to join NATO, which is hardly suprising given its history, then Russia needs to respect that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-32821212018750571252015-09-30T16:23:48.676+01:002015-09-30T16:23:48.676+01:00Whatever prevents a war between Russia and the Wes...Whatever prevents a war between Russia and the West is what makes Lithuania safer. If eastwards expansion of NATO makes a war more likely, it's ultimately bad for the Baltic states.James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-16471248419431375642015-09-30T16:23:11.191+01:002015-09-30T16:23:11.191+01:00As far as I am aware that is the case. The UK doe...As far as I am aware that is the case. The UK does not have an independent nuclear deterrent in any real sense. It is effectively the American state's nuclear weapons base in Europe.muttley79noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-88475124188691230462015-09-30T16:17:44.796+01:002015-09-30T16:17:44.796+01:00On a related subject, a wonderful letter in today&...On a related subject, a wonderful letter in today's Guardain from the Lithuanian amabassador regarding Corbyn's foreign policy:<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/lithuania-is-safer-with-nato-mr-corbynAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-50731216649784404402015-09-30T16:17:03.990+01:002015-09-30T16:17:03.990+01:00"It's amateur night in the UK's oppos...<i>"It's amateur night in the UK's opposition parties North.... of the border. Fortunately they are an irrelevance and are likely to remain so. "</i><br /><br />Certainly polling evidence continues to back that up.Scottish_Skiernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-1723563434214067102015-09-30T16:13:29.160+01:002015-09-30T16:13:29.160+01:00Oh, the playground analysis as 'realpolitik&#...Oh, the playground analysis as 'realpolitik', is it? I bet you think there really is a big red button. And that only PMs and Presidents have the launch codes? I suspect Corbyn knows that no UK PM has anything to do with when our nukes launch (except maybe getting 5 minutes instead of 3 to duck and cover). Which makes him a well-informed realist. You are in no position to criticize, having demonstrated the utter absence of awareness that strategy itself exists, never mind specific military strategizing relating to nuclear exchanges. Pffft, with this class of 'patriots'...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-15311914400640689152015-09-30T16:12:32.659+01:002015-09-30T16:12:32.659+01:00"But the decision to launch a nuclear attack ..."But the decision to launch a nuclear attack is ...... at the total discretion of the Prime Minister"<br /><br />Don't they have to ask the US to push the button for them?Angry Weegienoreply@blogger.com