tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post7001698502511080622..comments2024-03-28T15:22:59.754+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Tom Harris reveals that Oceania is at war with Eastasia, and has always been at war with EastasiaJames Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-38391177686714048292011-07-19T00:25:39.219+01:002011-07-19T00:25:39.219+01:00Ah, but the question is, was Harris Interpriting t...Ah, but the question is, was Harris Interpriting to the Ned's or for the Neds (ah-lah the Chewin The Fat sketch)?Allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13574173214924437278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-49521986253686943802011-07-17T15:44:51.580+01:002011-07-17T15:44:51.580+01:00"Can’t join the Tories, they are poison and t...<i>"Can’t join the Tories, they are poison and that is a dead end."</i><br /><br />Yes, I've always been slightly baffled as to why someone of his views joined Labour in the first place - that's probably the reason.James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-5420767572155811952011-07-17T14:02:30.638+01:002011-07-17T14:02:30.638+01:00I am particularly attracted to your interpretation...I am particularly attracted to your interpretations of Labour Hame. (God, I hate to be patronised by this "hame" in a blog written more or less in standard English!)<br /><br />I don't read the original, but I get the just of the matter, interpreted for me, and with all the b******s filtered out.<br /><br />The truth of the matter is that more or less every MSP wants more powers for the parliament. Having achieved a position of some influence in the affairs of the country, each MSP wants to be able to wield more power. It's a pride thing. For some, a pride in the country's ability to govern itself and a belief in that right; for others it's personal pride. Who wants to be a part of a toothless talking shop?<br /><br />Harris's position is obvious. The more power devolved to Edinburgh, the less power retained in London (in the hands of Harris and his colleagues).<br /><br />Already something of an irrelevance, a Scottish Labour MP during a period of Liberal/Tory English dominated government, Harris and his ilk see themselves becoming less and less relevant...and finally totally redundant.<br /><br />I'd love to ask him all of these questions about independence.<br /><br />What is it about Scotland that makes us incapable of being an independent oil-rich country? Are we too small, too stupid, too weak, too lacking in confidence... <br /><br />What do you think Tommy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-74319216865194208452011-07-17T11:48:43.433+01:002011-07-17T11:48:43.433+01:00About 2 blogs ago, long before anyone paid the sli...About 2 blogs ago, long before anyone paid the slightest attention to what he wrote, Harris gave the game away when he said that he had absolutely no interest in Scotland's constitutional arrangements.<br /><br />Of course, that is still his true position, but he now recognises that he cannot ignore the situation as the removal of Scottish MPs from Westminster threatens him personally. In that attitude he personifies the true attitude of the treacherous "Scottish" Labour Party.JPJ2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-21841763093196575812011-07-17T09:51:23.010+01:002011-07-17T09:51:23.010+01:00Tom Harris is the worst possible type of Quisling....Tom Harris is the worst possible type of Quisling. A Tory in Labour clothes! What do ambitious right leaning politicians do in Scotland these days? Can’t join the Tories, they are poison and that is a dead end. So join New Labour and get yourself a Glasgow seat, where the unthinking drones would, hitherto, elect a cabbage with a red rosette. Then you can safely be anti every possible socialist idea: anti-immigration, anti-electoral reform, pro-tax avoidance, sneering about welfare bums (i.e. constituents), shamelessly self-promoting, belittling of Holyrood and totally anti-Scottish and pro Westminster. Not bad for a would be journalist who reached the dizzy heights of the East Kilbride News and the Paisley Dailey Express before finding a quicker way to a better gravy train through the National Union of Journalists and the Labour Party. Add in a series of unfortunate events, like being sacked by Gordon Brown from the Department of Transport in 2008 for being a Blairite, giving up blogging to concentrate on getting into the Shadow Cabinet but backing the wrong Milliband brother and getting left out in the cold. Now back to blogging for a bit of publicity. No doubt he will be expecting “Labour Hame” to win loads of prizes in the usual beauty contests for blogs.Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-68779977776375852072011-07-17T06:13:03.305+01:002011-07-17T06:13:03.305+01:00Aye - we ken doublespeak.Aye - we ken doublespeak.McGonagallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14887321534801112949noreply@blogger.com