tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post1703913449734833625..comments2024-03-29T11:10:13.344+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Is J K Rowling embarrassed by her broken promise?James Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-37196500421735400862015-06-21T22:39:55.776+01:002015-06-21T22:39:55.776+01:00For such a clever woman its utterly bizarre that s...For such a clever woman its utterly bizarre that she cannot understand that a country wants to be independent not because it hates the english (which it doesn't) but because it wants to run its affairs, its own way: caring for its people (whatever their race, colour or creed) and to determine its own future without weapons of mass destruction, with an intact NHS and with social justice as core to its values. The reason why Nicola Sturgeon is such a good spontaneous speaker is because her core values are solid and why we see Labour floundering like a fish out of water, flapping in aimless desperation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-33534889014569382782015-06-21T12:09:43.415+01:002015-06-21T12:09:43.415+01:00only a peerage away,from being neighbours with dar...only a peerage away,from being neighbours with darling againwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03242753707412340371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-58338210070538095352015-06-19T23:31:16.567+01:002015-06-19T23:31:16.567+01:00If you play the internet game, you will be slander...If you play the internet game, you will be <i>slandered, libelled, I heard words I never heard in the bible..</i><br /><br />That is what the internet does, it allows two steps across the county line, it allows an icon like J K Rowling to be asked questions.<br /><br />And you know what? She is deliberately setting herself up as a target, not just for abuse, but for exit. It will be a minor point in the battle for self determination, but it is a negative one.douglas clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11422060678908705962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-8205695325408496302015-06-19T14:21:51.855+01:002015-06-19T14:21:51.855+01:00They're all so great, it's hard to choose....They're all so great, it's hard to choose.keatonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-80927802579764755292015-06-19T11:36:22.381+01:002015-06-19T11:36:22.381+01:00JK Rowling is a British nationalist (with a small ...JK Rowling is a British nationalist (with a small n) - I doubt she gives the failure to deliver devo max any thought whatsoever. What matters is her country (the UK, not Scotland) remains intact. Its about the only argument in favour of the union that I have much respect for.Craig Pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-59602241165896093612015-06-19T08:26:32.114+01:002015-06-19T08:26:32.114+01:00She is also factually incorrect as she uses Sean C...She is also factually incorrect as she uses Sean Clerkin as an example and he is not even a SNP supporter as he also has demonstrated against the SNP in the past. But why let the truth spoil a good SNP Bad story.<br /><br /><br />It would be a bit more consistent if she also condemned the Unionist trolls and the thugs who have beaten up Yes supporters. <br /><br />Silence on that though - as it does not fit with her MSM agenda to try to rubbish the SNP. <br />Hosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07962638502091728814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-49769625742548315962015-06-19T07:34:08.846+01:002015-06-19T07:34:08.846+01:00surely liz kendall - uber-blairite - is the best f...surely liz kendall - uber-blairite - is the best for snpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-14544951735612499662015-06-19T00:13:37.297+01:002015-06-19T00:13:37.297+01:00As far as I can see, it's a choice between thr...As far as I can see, it's a choice between three Blairites utterly oblivious to the lessons of last month's defeat, and someone who has a chance of at least starting the party on the road to reform. Right now Labour has a fight on for its soul, and Corbyn is the only person who can see that. The fact that the Tories are playing games like Tories 4 Corbyn tells a story all it's own.Taranaichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02176999342965850175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-23179325395539065322015-06-19T00:08:47.195+01:002015-06-19T00:08:47.195+01:00Rowling paid 1 million to the Better Together Camp...Rowling paid 1 million to the Better Together Campaign, making her complicit in the perpetuation of Westminster rule over the people of Scotland. She made a measurable contribution to the state the poorest people of Scotland find themselves in as a result of the No vote, as surely as Ian Taylor or anyone else. She went beyond offering well-intentioned words or soundbytes and actually put a significant sum of money into keeping Scotland in the United Kingdom - and therefore, ensuring that Scotland could be at the mercy of a Tory government.<br /><br />As for abuse, she's constantly ridiculing the "civic nationalism" (her quotation marks) of the SNP, rubbishing Scotland's resources, and comparing 50% of the Scottish electorate to naive at best and racists at worst. Abuse is unacceptable - and that includes Rowling's own remarks.Taranaichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02176999342965850175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-22365901061785971752015-06-18T22:53:43.656+01:002015-06-18T22:53:43.656+01:00"Heaven only knows how I would vote if I was ...<b>"Heaven only knows how I would vote if I was a Labour member/registered supporter."</b><br /><br />As a Labour member and I'm pretty stumped on the issue myself. It doesn't help that my two preferred candidates of Alan Johnson and Dan Jarvis decided not to run. At first I was a little dismissive of Corbyn, but now I'm really not so sure. I'm really going to have to think long and hard about this.Stoatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-91899737759434310662015-06-18T19:55:34.957+01:002015-06-18T19:55:34.957+01:00I can't argue with any of your comment, spot o...I can't argue with any of your comment, spot on.jimnarlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02231790902689695587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-90673367303038251132015-06-18T19:43:39.498+01:002015-06-18T19:43:39.498+01:00We also have to consider that it is this exact beh...We also have to consider that it is this exact behavior that drove up support for the SNP. For four years solid we had to sit and endure this keech. They've veered from anti-English racists. From Nazis to Marxists to sinister a personality cult. What did it achieve in the end? Scotland stays in the Union but the price tag is the collapse of unionist parties in Scotland.<br /><br />That they're still doing this, proves that they never had a plan for building on a no vote.<br />Only the smears were left. I watched the collapse of UK labour into a bizarre group of people who abstained on crucial votes in Westminster, and then shouted a lot about nothing in particular in Holyrood. Its the 1% doctrine and its it's clear that no party in recent memory has ever failed on their own terms on such a scale or quite so comprehensively as Labour did. It doesn't matter who issues this weeks smear, all it did and will continue to do is to strengthen SNP voters resolve.<br /><br />In other words. UK labour and Scottish labour cannot win any of their lost votes by getting celebrities to talk pish on their behalf.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-68118901612950015082015-06-18T18:35:19.231+01:002015-06-18T18:35:19.231+01:00Rowling's comments today are the same as they ...Rowling's comments today are the same as they were during the referendum campaign imo. It is basically the standard Brit Nat charge against the SNP; one that has been made frequently, and with ever greater tedium and desperation over the past few decades, if not longer. I agree with Mick in his post below. As I said even Adam Tomkins is not buying Rowling's schtick! muttley79noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-47015597968153278412015-06-18T18:05:57.671+01:002015-06-18T18:05:57.671+01:00You get to the nub of it muttley.
People have re...You get to the nub of it muttley. <br /><br />People have read far too much into Rowling's scripted Labour press releases as if they were a product of her own mind. <br /><br />Fact is nobody could ever accuse Rowling of being a deep thinker on Devolution or the many facets of Independence. She's a children's writer who writes about boy wizards at a public school FFS. She is quite obviously motivated by her closeness to Gordon Brown and Darling who feed her this Labour/sub Daily Mail bullshit to trot out to the most gullible and unquestioning of the BritNats and their establishment media lapdogs.<br /><br />I can think of few more ironic fates for an author who once relied on the welfare state than to become just another Daily Mail style mouthpiece unthinkingly smearing millions of scottish voters. <br /><br />Particularly when the primary reason she has for doing so is that she is now close friends with a former PM in a Labour party which openly attacks the unemployed and welfare recipients while using BNP style language against immigrants.Mick Porknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-44625414598467150102015-06-18T17:59:01.679+01:002015-06-18T17:59:01.679+01:00Nobody should be smearing anybody and I took excep...Nobody should be smearing anybody and I took exception to much of what Rowling said during the referendum campaign, but her comments today weren't of the same nature.<br /><br />In my opinion.Iainhttp://apoliticalpodcast.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-19289208922093591192015-06-18T16:56:23.203+01:002015-06-18T16:56:23.203+01:00With each outburst J.K. Rowling makes, I get the d...With each outburst J.K. Rowling makes, I get the distinct impression she has listened both far too much and too long to her SLAB friends Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling on the subject of Scottish politics. These blanket portrayals of the SNP as being anti-English/racist are becoming increasingly tedious. Even Adam Tomkins has defended the SNP on this!muttley79noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-50762869397488647772015-06-18T16:49:36.194+01:002015-06-18T16:49:36.194+01:00Iain, do you support smears instead of actually of...Iain, do you support smears instead of actually offering any fact based evidence then? I can only conclude from your answer that you support smears. Rowling and other unionists, both now and in the past, have been trying to portray the SNP as racist, anti-English. That is all they have, smears instead of anything remotely positive to say to the electorate here. It says more about them than the SNP imo. They clearly view support for independence as a confirmation of anti-Englishness. muttley79noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-19052166058272202432015-06-18T16:47:47.268+01:002015-06-18T16:47:47.268+01:00Sorry James, but No! :-)Sorry James, but No! :-)Jutemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11061671774494923407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-72374059492934084192015-06-18T16:26:44.668+01:002015-06-18T16:26:44.668+01:00Can't agree that Rowling did anything out of l...Can't agree that Rowling did anything out of line today. MacWhirter's writing was a bit wooly and there's no way that there aren't any anti-English types amongst the SNP membership. She responded directly to him querying his remarks without any aggression and presumably referencing personal experience.<br /><br />I can understand people assuming an ulterior motive, but the vivid and immediate responses she received on twitter were excessive and unnecessary.Iainhttp://apoliticalpodcast.comnoreply@blogger.com