tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post7303119248546272178..comments2024-03-29T14:02:52.819+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Open questionsJames Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-56945777006613747732012-12-03T10:54:07.854+00:002012-12-03T10:54:07.854+00:00"Labour may have made a marginal move back in..."Labour may have made a marginal move back in the correct direction since then, but that isn't saying much when you bear in mind where they were starting from."<br /><br />I'm not sure they have. Certainly, by electing "red" Ed instead of his true blue brother they gave the impression of moving in that direction, but I don't see any evidence that their policies have, in fact, changed.<br /><br />I noted that Alex Bell spoke to Labour's Strathkelvin branch on Friday and found (in his own words):<br /><br />''There was strong support for a return to real Labour values, heavy criticism of "weak" leadership at both Holyrood and Westminster, anger at how the membership had not been consulted over Better Together (or anything else), opposition to the slide to the right and an understanding of Scottish Labour's own need for independence to remove the "Milliball 'n chain of new labour" and its obsession with home counties focus groups.''<br /><br />He also found, that the membership (he doesn't say how many) were:<br /><br />For the Union 2<br />Against the union: 4<br />and that the rest were open to being persuaded. The trouble with these figures is that we don't know how many there are of "the rest".<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-3159840161141661822012-12-03T10:27:46.828+00:002012-12-03T10:27:46.828+00:00Effie Deans' blog contributions to Open Unioni...Effie Deans' blog contributions to Open Unionism are a delight.<br /><br />Ponderous, complacent, and always silly in a 'senior' kind of way, they never fail to present an open goal. I think the only people who actually read them are non-unionists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-7374605828995803052012-12-02T21:16:21.178+00:002012-12-02T21:16:21.178+00:00I can never make my mind up about Effie. Is she a ...I can never make my mind up about Effie. Is she a troll, or simply an upper class twit?Jutemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11061671774494923407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-41872378788616039292012-12-02T19:26:53.699+00:002012-12-02T19:26:53.699+00:00Effie Deans, barking mad.
If the SNP are not Nazi...Effie Deans, barking mad.<br /><br />If the SNP are not Nazis they must be commies now.Bugger le Pandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15924663556503952533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-70212376621518348862012-12-02T18:50:00.522+00:002012-12-02T18:50:00.522+00:00By Effie Deans who has a very weird take on all th...By Effie Deans who has a very weird take on all things that she writes about, I am always right mentality.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.com