tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post7296375540786639440..comments2024-03-28T13:56:07.453+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: If an outright mandate for independence is sought at a parliamentary election, it should be done at Holyrood 2021, not Westminster 2022James Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-36598772511613389952018-07-27T05:15:39.610+01:002018-07-27T05:15:39.610+01:00Snivelling halfwit. Snivelling halfwit. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-67477273934698371262018-07-26T16:29:19.572+01:002018-07-26T16:29:19.572+01:00That's nice, but the idea that the UK will abo...That's nice, but the idea that the UK will abolish Holyrood in the next 2-3 years is histrionic madness.commentorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10321173541321374705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-34557633096285023652018-07-26T01:18:52.632+01:002018-07-26T01:18:52.632+01:00"...the UK isn't a pantomime villain...&q..."...the UK isn't a pantomime villain..." <br /><br />I am deeply troubled about the motivations, and the likely actions and reactions, of the mad, incompetent and reality-denying UK regime.It has often been called a clown car - but those are pretty scary clowns. <br /><br />They are more perilous than most people realize, as they are well along the road from right-wing exceptionalism and jingoism, through UKIPpish racism and xenophobia and on into ethnonationalism of the flag-waving, fascistic England über Alles kind. <br /><br />In their past conduct the Westminster regime has shown a cruel ideology of social Darwinism and the concomitant lack of compassion and morality, for example by punishing children for the "sins" of their parents by reducing them to starvation and beggary, and a contempt for democratic norms and the UK's international legal obligations.<br /><br />The pro-Brexit campaign and press, and the withdrawal of the UK from the EU, remind me of the populist demagoguery of 1930s European dictators, and in particular, of Mussolini pulling Italy out of the old League of Nations.<br /><br />That doesn't make me a fever-minded Scottish (civic) nationalist - it makes my blood run cold.ejfjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10154337168320710486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-86127295059474786192018-07-25T17:08:33.419+01:002018-07-25T17:08:33.419+01:00>How do we even know there will be any Holyrood...>How do we even know there will be any Holyrood elections in 2021? How do we know there will be any Scottish Parliament in 2021?<br /><br />Because the UK isn't a pantomime villain that's going to do what the more fevered-minded nats have worked themselves up into believing it's going to do.commentorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10321173541321374705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-68256978751823363012018-07-25T17:07:08.906+01:002018-07-25T17:07:08.906+01:00If there was popular support for it, then I can se...If there was popular support for it, then I can see us telling WM what we're going to do. Unfortunately polls show that the No vote continues to be comfortably higher than the Yes vote. In that context, we can't throw our weight around; WM & our media, can easily ignore and render impotent any such attempt.commentorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10321173541321374705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-7693768261560783112018-07-25T16:51:04.670+01:002018-07-25T16:51:04.670+01:00If a HR election were used as a "fallback ind...If a HR election were used as a "fallback indyref2", presumably a Yes for independence would consist of a majority of regional votes going to parties who had that in their manifesto - as opposed to a majority of MSP seats won. I picked the regional vote since it is more open to SGP voters.<br /><br />Otherwise, there might be a situation like the last HR election where pro-independence parties win a minority of votes, but a majority of MSPs, and then claim a mandate for entering independence negotiations with no majority support.<br /><br />With that rule, a GE could be used for the same purpose, as the non-proportional voting system would not enter into it. Indeed, people don't get two votes in GEs so perhaps it'd be simpler. All very not-ideal compared to a proper referendum.commentorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10321173541321374705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-9602655608936363502018-07-25T11:05:18.489+01:002018-07-25T11:05:18.489+01:00We don't hate the English. We're just not ...We don't hate the English. We're just not keen on nasty wee fascists like you, GWC2.eddjasfreemanhttp://eddjasfreeman.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-49993151136525548422018-07-25T10:57:59.117+01:002018-07-25T10:57:59.117+01:00"Your", not "you're". So i..."Your", not "you're". So it's all right paying people like you welfare benefits, but not us Scots? What a good reason for us to be independent: you only want us to stay in the Union so we can be discriminated against. Charming.eddjasfreemanhttp://eddjasfreeman.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-65890961767230700362018-07-25T10:47:35.513+01:002018-07-25T10:47:35.513+01:00That's a band, you twit, and we already know y...That's a band, you twit, and we already know you're a heidbanger.ejfjhttp://eddjasfreeman.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-88524104434963455782018-07-25T10:33:10.941+01:002018-07-25T10:33:10.941+01:00Glass houses...Glass houses...eddjasfreemanhttp://eddjasfreeman.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-25948821266637705582018-07-25T10:26:33.127+01:002018-07-25T10:26:33.127+01:00God you're a boreGod you're a boreGWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-7894091642347384512018-07-25T10:25:26.717+01:002018-07-25T10:25:26.717+01:00Don't hate you. Sick of paying you're welf...Don't hate you. Sick of paying you're welfare benefitsGWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-6604064005309179792018-07-25T10:22:56.566+01:002018-07-25T10:22:56.566+01:00Harvey HeadbangerHarvey HeadbangerGWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-59644322821265022002018-07-25T10:20:32.073+01:002018-07-25T10:20:32.073+01:00Get her! Little Miss Pishylips.Get her! Little Miss Pishylips.GWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-22673786668873072542018-07-24T16:51:24.079+01:002018-07-24T16:51:24.079+01:00... and don't realize that the criminally insa...... and don't realize that the criminally insane of Scotland and Northern Ireland are sent to Carstairs.<br /><br />I expect you'd be happier in Broadmoor, though.eddjasfreemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-34884788831659490982018-07-24T16:39:19.528+01:002018-07-24T16:39:19.528+01:00And where do you get off calling the saltire a Naz...And where do you get off calling the saltire a Nazi flag? It's the Scottish Defence League and those like them who go around spitting at priests, threatening people, and giving Hitler salutes. You really must hate us Scottish people.eddjasfreemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-66603868137692563542018-07-24T16:29:48.306+01:002018-07-24T16:29:48.306+01:00Tullamore or Bushmills?Tullamore or Bushmills?eddjasfreemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-1497849736168503952018-07-24T16:15:23.448+01:002018-07-24T16:15:23.448+01:00Hark at you, Miss Hissy Fitty!Hark at you, Miss Hissy Fitty!eddjasfreemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-63127330436181056452018-07-23T00:53:08.838+01:002018-07-23T00:53:08.838+01:00You despair? So do I. Every time I read that crap....You despair? So do I. Every time I read that crap. You should be in Broadmoor.GWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-32807869493802806332018-07-22T12:08:34.150+01:002018-07-22T12:08:34.150+01:00It's just a word. We will do what we have to t...It's just a word. We will do what we have to to keep our people together. Always have. Always will. We're ready to answer the call when the gloves come off.GWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-20648028451656756492018-07-21T23:33:16.980+01:002018-07-21T23:33:16.980+01:00..and while I'm on the subject, make mine a do.....and while I'm on the subject, make mine a double. Bottoms up!GWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-21272791656292388922018-07-21T15:24:32.449+01:002018-07-21T15:24:32.449+01:00In all this talk of postponing the new referendum,...In all this talk of postponing the new referendum, whether it be until 2019 or 2021 or 2022, I see no explanation of how those commending delay propose to deal with the measures that the UK Government will surely implement in order to make a referendum impossible or unwinnable or both. It's as if they think the British state is a benign entity which is just going to sit back and wait until we get our act together. It's as if they are dumbly unaware that locking Scotland into a unilaterally redefined political union is one of principal imperatives driving British policy.<br /><br />How do we even know there will be any Holyrood elections in 2021? How do we know there will be any Scottish Parliament in 2021? And, even if it is allowed to survive while the Postponers are warming their fiddle-fingers at the bonfire of Scotland's democracy, how can anyone even begin to imagine that it won't have been stripped of the power to call a referendum?<br /><br />At a minimum, all the British political elite would have to do is transfer powers over the franchise to the new unelected and unaccountable shadow administration under David Mundell.<br /><br />But STILL the Postponers have absolutely nothing to say about such matters. They are so wrapped up in trying to think of ways to game the British political system it never occurs to them that there is actually no reason at all why we should be playing according to the rules of that system.<br /><br />Worse! They genuinely seem to suppose that the 'right time' for a new referendum will just magically emerge from conditions which - by THEIR choice! - are all but entirely determined by forces that are intractably opposed to the people of Scotland EVER being permitted to exercise their right of self-determination.<br /><br />I despair!Peter A Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204261467942498747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-80355610901718996542018-07-21T00:41:21.009+01:002018-07-21T00:41:21.009+01:00LOL! And you call US "nat sis"?
It may ...LOL! And you call US "nat sis"?<br /><br />It may astonish you to learn that the pro-independence parties have a majority at Holyrood, and a majority of Scottish MPs at Westminster, so we could have declared independence anytime if we had agreed with Margaret Thatcher's view.<br /><br />But we're committed to democracy. You appear to like the idea of a military coup. That makes you a f*ucking fascist.ejfjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10154337168320710486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-38123490209257613742018-07-21T00:03:05.430+01:002018-07-21T00:03:05.430+01:00And we have friends in the services.And we have friends in the services.GWC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-15641863954136617522018-07-21T00:01:09.392+01:002018-07-21T00:01:09.392+01:00Hark at Mother Theresa! Prissy Missy.Hark at Mother Theresa! Prissy Missy.GWC2noreply@blogger.com