tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post5218546129687778931..comments2024-03-18T22:55:22.060+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: The No campaign. You can't join it. Nobody speaks for it. Does it exist?James Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-11097344917094087912013-06-12T14:53:33.971+01:002013-06-12T14:53:33.971+01:00I've just picked out these three tweets from D...I've just picked out these three tweets from Duncan:<br /><br />Duncan Hothersall : #Bettertogether is a campaign involving Scottish Labour, the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Conservative Party.<br /><br />Duncan Hothersall : Nobody's "banned". BT is a campaign set up by 3 Scottish parties which includes individuals from all parties and none.<br /><br />Duncan Hothersall : No, and I haven't "discouraged" non-Scottish parties. I merely answered your question.<br /><br />Is Duncan under the strange impression that "Scottish Labour", the "Scottish Conservative Party" and the "Scottish Liberal-Democrats" are actually real parties? None of these fantasy "Scottish" parties exist in the Electoral Commission's register of political parties.<br /><br />There are no parties whose headquarters are in Scotland, whose leaders are based in Scotland or whose membership is overwhelmingly Scottish in the Better Together campaign.<br /><br />Theresa May is senior to Ruth Davidson in the Conservative Party and a member of the UK Government. Theresa's party is also one of the members of Better Together so why are her comments on Scottish independence to be disregarded while Ruth Davidson's aren't?<br /><br />I think it's actually very funny and in a way very sad. Duncan is fighting hard as a british nationalist to promote the idea of one British nation and one British state and yet he still believes that Scotland has its own Labour, Tory and Lib-Dem parties separate from the British Labour Tory and Lib-Dem parties and that "non-Scottish" parties shouldn't get involved. <br /><br />If Duncan only wants Scottish Parties involved in Better Together he'd better get rid of the present bunch and replace them with the SNP, Scottish Greens and the SSP.DougtheDughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02952281599715356995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-23983331378113176332013-06-12T12:21:47.705+01:002013-06-12T12:21:47.705+01:00Spot on Tris.
I love it when Ed comes up north. :-...Spot on Tris.<br />I love it when Ed comes up north. :-)Jutemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00666473582054210936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-73587442973022226592013-06-12T11:41:01.952+01:002013-06-12T11:41:01.952+01:00I am reminded here that the prime minister came to...I am reminded here that the prime minister came to his Scottish party conference, where he could have talked about any number of problems facing the UK (including Scotland) over which he has control, but chose, instead, to major on the referendum. <br /><br />He then made it clear that he would not debate the subject with Alex Salmond, because it was nothing to do with him (Cameron).<br /><br />If it is nothing to do with the English parties, surely they should stop talking to journalists and at public meetings about it and leave it to Scots.<br /><br />Likewise the funding should be only from Scotland. Any funding from either side, from without Scotland, should be returned.<br /><br />Of course it isn't going to happen, but, in reality I have little problem with it. <br /><br />There's nothing Scots like better than being ordered about by posh Tories with plummy accents.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-70267963505726489692013-06-12T06:19:33.949+01:002013-06-12T06:19:33.949+01:00An amazing exercise in denial there by Dunc.
All ...An amazing exercise in denial there by Dunc. <br />All this talk of Scottish Parties when he's actually talking about branches of British parties with varying amounts of power to dictate their owners' manifestos (starting at zero and not increasing much from there).<br />This is emblematic of the BT mindset - living in denial in magic pretendy Scottish land. I refuse to believe the high-ups actually believe this stuff themselves.naebdhttp://google.comnoreply@blogger.com