tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post8175482019852763646..comments2024-03-28T13:13:12.506+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: The STV political correspondent who thinks that "Scottish nationalists need not concern themselves with the troubles of foreigners"James Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-73185550555637212662015-12-08T23:00:13.044+00:002015-12-08T23:00:13.044+00:00The problem is is that most people have to go out ...The problem is is that most people have to go out and work for a living get tired go home and some have children to look after. The SNP have jumped into the vavumn and offered the World to people and some have swallowed their crap and lies.This SNP need to be exposed and the opposition seem incapable of doing so but it has to be done.Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-35253659045599267362015-12-08T15:40:38.580+00:002015-12-08T15:40:38.580+00:00From my experience, a fair chunk of SNP activists ...From my experience, a fair chunk of SNP activists (as opposed to supporters) use internationalism as a stick to beat the UK with rather than for its own sake. The euro is a classic example: it was supported by the SNP as a way to emphasise the party's international credentials, but when it became politically toxic to support euro membership the policy was abandoned. If the SNP actually believed in the euro in the first place they would have maintained a commitment to it, as many other parties across Europe do, even if it proved unpopular. Instead it was embraced to try and boost their popularity, not because of a coherent pro-European/internationalist ideology, and promptly dropped at the first sign of trouble.<br /><br />Which is ultimately how you could describe most of the SNP's platform - a populist agenda built around securing the temporary levels of support required to achieve what they really care about (independence). That's the key difference with RISE, which is a policy oriented movement that happens to support independence. Whereas the SNP are intent on shutting down every discussion about policy on the grounds that it's a distraction from the end goal of independence (a convenient line if you're a party in government given it essentially makes you immune from criticism); RISE is based on the same concept as Podemos - circles of local activists producing policies from the bottom up.<br /><br />That's where genuine internationalism comes from and it's something neither the SNP nor Labour can offer.Catnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-24968939903460085482015-12-08T08:07:01.840+00:002015-12-08T08:07:01.840+00:00Eat your cereal. Eat your cereal. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-9801666364389023572015-12-08T08:05:25.990+00:002015-12-08T08:05:25.990+00:00Eat your cereal.Eat your cereal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-311063485539902852015-12-07T21:26:49.417+00:002015-12-07T21:26:49.417+00:00Ye could hiv said naw but didnae. So you have answ...Ye could hiv said naw but didnae. So you have answered.Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-18325440332187335052015-12-07T21:20:39.482+00:002015-12-07T21:20:39.482+00:00Eat your cerealEat your cerealAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-68761975725694471592015-12-07T21:09:03.592+00:002015-12-07T21:09:03.592+00:00You seem tae be obcessed with Daisy. Just eat yer ...You seem tae be obcessed with Daisy. Just eat yer crisps and read the Scottish Sun. Ye never did answer my question aboot Zionists. Ur ye feart tae expose yerself as an anti semite?Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-17550292944302376132015-12-07T17:04:11.423+00:002015-12-07T17:04:11.423+00:00I forgot tae put a question mark at the end. Maybe...I forgot tae put a question mark at the end. Maybe you can give a concise answer.Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-69883379705910745302015-12-07T07:55:51.654+00:002015-12-07T07:55:51.654+00:00Why only Daisy with his opinion on there? Oh sorry...Why only Daisy with his opinion on there? Oh sorry, I mean analysis. Daisy's stuff is like something I'd find on CrapX - not from a national broadcaster. His opinion means nothing. It's masquerading as news / STV's own stance. Which it isn't. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-34308732509810698552015-12-07T06:03:56.058+00:002015-12-07T06:03:56.058+00:00Eat your cereal.Eat your cereal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-70353546704291419552015-12-07T06:02:57.564+00:002015-12-07T06:02:57.564+00:00Eat your cereal.Eat your cereal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-36808585242502455902015-12-06T20:42:09.470+00:002015-12-06T20:42:09.470+00:00I assume you have a dislike for Zionists.I assume you have a dislike for Zionists.Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-44735654417129504052015-12-06T20:38:36.783+00:002015-12-06T20:38:36.783+00:00Just shows Scots are as thick as mince.
Just shows Scots are as thick as mince.<br /><br /><br />Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-8122275778578752982015-12-06T19:52:03.361+00:002015-12-06T19:52:03.361+00:00Eat your cereal.Eat your cereal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-74359034924352861812015-12-06T17:19:30.716+00:002015-12-06T17:19:30.716+00:00The People Versus Carmichael needs our help. Pleas...The People Versus Carmichael needs our help. Please give what you can.Dan Huilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-70686444493542770852015-12-06T16:54:11.944+00:002015-12-06T16:54:11.944+00:00I've never read Daisley. Never will.I've never read Daisley. Never will.Dan Huilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-24163578333723612352015-12-06T16:08:39.453+00:002015-12-06T16:08:39.453+00:00UK poll support for air strikes is totally tanking...UK poll support for air strikes is totally tanking. <br /><br />Big crash before the vote:<br /><br /><a href="https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/12/02/analysis-sharp-fall-support-air-strikes-syria/" rel="nofollow">https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/12/02/analysis-sharp-fall-support-air-strikes-syria/</a><br /><br />Latest figures just days later show the trend continuing:<br />44(-4)% Approve<br />36(+5)% Disapprove <br /><br />That's an epic crash going on in approval. <br /><br />Scotland (subsample) disapproves: <br />39% Approve<br />45% Disprove <br /><br />Labour voters:<br />29% Approve<br />51% Disapprove <br /><br />As usual, SNP in tune with the electorate, Lab, Con and Lib not.Scottish_Skiernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-61732428308574139102015-12-06T14:23:42.836+00:002015-12-06T14:23:42.836+00:00Probably not anti-semitic. Just on the wind up. I...Probably not anti-semitic. Just on the wind up. I didnt notice to start with so i wasnt helping. Apologies. Dont feedAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00419984523615942383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-71432727209767749732015-12-06T13:58:06.796+00:002015-12-06T13:58:06.796+00:00Daisley is a strange combination of pragnatism and...Daisley is a strange combination of pragnatism and convictions, but I think it's fairly simple to explain.<br /><br />During the referendum campaign I had no idea of his background or previous work and simply took his STV column at face value. I loved it. Barbed, but apparently without malice, and springing from a genuine knowledge of what both campaigns were doing on social media. It was often hilarious, providing a much-needed belly-laugh after a hard day's campaigning.<br /><br />His apparent relationship with Stuart Campbell was also a point in his favour. The two sparred like old friends and I got the impression Stuart actually knew him and knew what sort of a person he was. (Whatever Stuart's faults, two-facedness isn't one of them, and he doesn't seem to be able to help wearing his heart on his sleeve. One tends to imagine people he's friendly with are similar.) All in all Daisley came over as someone sympathetic to Yes and possibly to the SNP. There were passages which hinted fairly strongly at a Yes, vote, and maybe even an SNP vote.<br /><br />It seems all to have been a sham. I asked Stuart where the bantering relationship had arisen and he said he didn't really know. I think Daisley engaged him on Twitter and Stuart responded in the same spirit and tone. The Daisley Mail columns at the time certainly seemed designed to cultivate the good opinions of Yessers, and being on good terms with Wings would have been a good place to be post-Yes.<br /><br />Now look. I unfollowed him on Twitter some time ago. I moaned to Stuart that the Wings twitter account kept throwing him into my timeline and I was fed up with it. But that's stopped too. I haven't seen a "YOUR FACE" for months, and the other day I saw Stuart tweet that "we don't speak any more".<br /><br />I think the ultra-Zionist right-wing fervour has to be the real guy. But 18 months ago I'd scarcely have believed any of that if you'd told me. I think he's just a consummate opportunist. I think he saw a real possibility that Yes would win last year, and was positioning himself from a journalistic perspective to be on the "good side" of the winning side. Given the virulent, vitriolic anti-Yes writings of so many mainstream journalists he could have been sitting pretty with regard to career opportunities as Scotland moved towards independence.<br /><br />But that didn't work out. Yes lost. So he's reverted to type and is allowing his true convictions to show. I don't know why Fox News would want a journalist from Scotland, haven't they got plenty ultra-Zionist right-wingers of their own? But he'd fit right in.<br /><br />I'd hate to have thought that a snake in the grass like that might have positioned himself to prosper after independence by pure posturing. But he might have pulled it off. He's actually very dangerous, because his undoubted writing skills allow him to put on a mask of someone he isn't, and it's absolutely believable.<br /><br />Hell mend him, basically.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-81405181805969266272015-12-06T12:27:08.611+00:002015-12-06T12:27:08.611+00:00Serial is your kop out. Avoiding the issue. You go...Serial is your kop out. Avoiding the issue. You go temporarily braindead. Are you the mug that always seems to mention Jews and Zionist on another blog!Glasgow Working Classnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-83013320541235138382015-12-06T10:43:05.483+00:002015-12-06T10:43:05.483+00:00I long since gave up any attempt to engage with th...I long since gave up any attempt to engage with the troll. Being called a Nazi (and I am well aware of the troll's attachment to semantics in this) grew wearying. Now, I merely remind the troll about cereal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-16626540934087982612015-12-06T10:40:18.624+00:002015-12-06T10:40:18.624+00:00Eat your cereal.Eat your cereal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-75481694122463278582015-12-06T10:39:01.836+00:002015-12-06T10:39:01.836+00:00Eat your cereal.Eat your cereal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-69382602212332105192015-12-06T10:37:55.001+00:002015-12-06T10:37:55.001+00:00Eat your cereal. Eat your cereal. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-86810211545005177782015-12-06T10:36:53.643+00:002015-12-06T10:36:53.643+00:00Eat your cereal.Eat your cereal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com