tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post3234733077784614716..comments2024-03-28T14:15:36.649+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: If any "prominent pollsters" from Ipsos-Mori happen to be passing by, feel free to be amused by this one as well...James Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-20538121633135035572013-04-18T19:47:48.802+01:002013-04-18T19:47:48.802+01:00Thanks for that, Marcia. I knew that some of what ...Thanks for that, Marcia. I knew that some of what TSE was trotting out about Donaldson was plain wrong, and that the rest was extremely dubious, but when I was in the middle of the exchange I was struggling to track down a link to the true story. I seem to recall Mark MacLachlan covered this subject once or twice.James Kellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-82649482286819574422013-04-18T18:27:34.615+01:002013-04-18T18:27:34.615+01:00James, I must one of the dwindling band of people ...James, I must one of the dwindling band of people who knew Arthur Donaldson. He was a very good speaker with a dry wit, just like the late Oliver Brown. The horrors of the Great War and the enormous casulties and the lies of 'Land fit for heroes' that never materialised, I think were the reasons why he opposed consription in 1939 and set up an organisation to help those who tried to avoid concription. He opposed women being sent to war work in England.<br /><br /> He was a very good speaker and with his easy speaking manner the Govt of the day may have thought he could undermine the conscription of men and women so they had him interned. I am sure his widow Violet said there was a lot of fabricated reports of his activities and she strongly denied he was sympathetic to the German cause. He was released without any charges being made. <br /><br />I am puzzled as to the PB Tory who said he was throw out of the SNP in 1940. He certainly was not. Are they getting mixed up with Douglas Young who was another who opposed the war but for different reasons? There was a power struggle in 1942 with different groups in the SNP as to how the party should proceed, a gradualist approach or the fundamentalist approach. The latter grouping won and some left the party to form the National Convention. <br /><br />He became leader of the Party in 1960 until he stepped down in 1969. He became rather deaf in his old age but it didn't stop him campaiging for Gordon Wilson in the 1979 and 1983 General Elections. Marcianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-89149283572901661792013-04-18T17:58:28.784+01:002013-04-18T17:58:28.784+01:00I saw that poll described as bad news for the SNP ...I saw that poll described as bad news for the SNP on the Stormfront-Lite website.<br /><br />They are a truly insane bunch of racists. Anything to do with Scotland is bad. The SNP are evil and Independence is impossible for any country of less then 50 million people. <br /><br />Glad it's teetering on the brink of extinction.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com