tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post7617343123400437700..comments2024-03-28T09:36:06.579+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Nelson's columnJames Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-85690269783728251452010-10-10T17:12:47.781+01:002010-10-10T17:12:47.781+01:00"...and as a unionist, I'd like him to co..."...and as a unionist, I'd like him to confine his comments to the provision of public services."<br /><br />"The Scottish media will look to the First Minister to give comments on the death of a Scot, as if he were spokesman for a nation."<br /><br />These two sentences encapsulates the unionists attitude to devolution. As far as they're concerned what has been created is another layer of local government within Britain.<br /><br />Holyrood is not a national parliament, it's a local authority and as such should not be involved in anything more contentious than the division of the block grant and certainly has no remit to comment on national or international events.<br /><br />The anger about Megrahi is because a local authority has somehow been given powers well above its station in the natural order of things as far as Nelson is concerned.DougtheDughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02952281599715356995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-31081609637593691082010-10-10T14:08:15.889+01:002010-10-10T14:08:15.889+01:00I've got nothing against Christine Grahame, an...I've got nothing against Christine Grahame, and on this issue I agree with her entirely - I think Megrahi is innocent and that the US have a lot of questions to answer. I'm simply observing that, contrary to Nelson's implication, the SNP leadership haven't followed her down that path.James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-36621108566744548982010-10-10T09:40:30.717+01:002010-10-10T09:40:30.717+01:00Wat have you gove against Ms Grahame. Here views ...Wat have you gove against Ms Grahame. Here views on Lockerbie are very sound, but don't do far enough.<br /><br />All reasonable commentators know that the US and iran jointly blew up Pan Am 103 using the agents in th CIA and Pasdaran. You can read a summary of what really happened at adifferentviewonlockerbie.blogspot.comCharleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03662285337385107290noreply@blogger.com