tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post979617372115793415..comments2024-03-29T09:02:27.112+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: The real 'distraction' is the argument against Scottish self-governmentJames Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-6567509552754162222010-07-15T01:59:50.916+01:002010-07-15T01:59:50.916+01:00My mind's boggling with what you might be sugg...My mind's boggling with what you might be suggesting there, Sophia...James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-13246832948231714842010-07-14T17:15:50.298+01:002010-07-14T17:15:50.298+01:00Respect an' Michael Forsyth dinnae sit weel th...Respect an' Michael Forsyth dinnae sit weel th'gither in ma mind. The man gies aff a funny smell. Why does he get a padded seat in the Hoose o' Turds, oops sorry Lords? Ah wonder if he sits comfortably next tae wee Lordie Georgie Robertson? Mibbe we'll understand the man better if we wait the 87 year it'll tak tae release a certain sheaf o' papers, tho ah'm no sure ah can haud ma breath that long...Sophia Panglosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089164117446635962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-13270724321024724932010-07-14T16:51:25.820+01:002010-07-14T16:51:25.820+01:00Munguin, on the subject of Forsyth - it's amus...Munguin, on the subject of Forsyth - it's amusing to recall that he and the Stone of Destiny were the Tories' idea of a "respect agenda" in the mid-90s! The more things change, the more they stay the same...James Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-26109994053128640462010-07-14T14:25:38.889+01:002010-07-14T14:25:38.889+01:00Talk about being able to prove anything you like w...Talk about being able to prove anything you like with statistics. I’m amazed Mr O’Brien has not gone on to prove that black is white and that God is a woman who really does exist. If Scotland is so awful and the people are so backward and such a drain on England why haven’t the Tories done anything about it? Let’s face it (and this is something I ask English Tory bloggers who moan about the Scots all the time) if it were not for Scotland and its Labour MPs, England would be a land of never ending Tory Government. Only one Labour government in History has not needed Scottish seats to form a Government, that of Tony Blair in 1997, and only one Tory government since the war has needed Scottish seats to rule, that of Winston Churchill in 1951. The number of Scottish Tory MPs has fallen since their high in 1955 when they had 37 MPs, meteorically since Mrs Thatcher, until now they only have one. So what else is there in this equation that is not being talked about? A huge elephant in the room that the English anti-Scots Tories never mention but that is keeping their economy afloat, and has since the 1970s?Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-83041329468825932732010-07-14T09:45:12.585+01:002010-07-14T09:45:12.585+01:00I’m afraid I have rather strong views on Lord Fors...I’m afraid I have rather strong views on Lord Forsyth which don’t seem to go down very well in the Tory blogosphere. Needless Tory bashing apparently for pointing out the good Baron’s short comings (of which there are so many to choose from). I don’t quite see it myself. After all he was a useless toady that got nowhere under Thatcher or latterly under Major until there was just no one left in the Scottish Office to pin the Sec’s job on. So he got it for a little over a year, claimed to have returned the stone of destiny and then lost his seat as one of many Tory Cabinet members to do so. So for that year and a half, and despite being rejected by the electorate, off he goes to the unelected chamber to stay on the parliamentary gravy train where he can campaign against devolution and pontificate at length about anything and everything with that vast year and a bit at cabinet under his belt. The point is my surprise at Tory bloggers seeming amazement that hitherto anti-Labour bloggers have switched to anti-Tory blogging. What a revelation? Hardly I would have though, surely a pro-Scottish blogger would have an anti-Union stance and in case I am not much mistaken the Tories are just as pro-Union as Labour, oh and they form the Government now too.Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-34298235106594980182010-07-14T09:16:50.142+01:002010-07-14T09:16:50.142+01:00Well said James. It maks me wonder how some politi...Well said James. It maks me wonder how some politicians hae the nerve tae talk about poverty in this country, when they show such poverty o' language an' poverty o' ambition thersels.Sophia Panglosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089164117446635962noreply@blogger.com