O'Kelly Isley III
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On 3/15/2019 at 09:15, welshbairn said:
The Press and Journal sells more than the Scotsman, Herald and National combined.
Yip, but we buy Andrex in the Central Belt.
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1 hour ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:
1922 Committee Executive have told May that a customs union is unacceptable as the UK won't be able to have the NHS raped by American corporations.
The delusion of these arseholes never ceases to amaze me.
FTFY
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1 hour ago, Detournement said:
I don't think you understand the role of the media in this.
I understand it just fine thanks, and I can do without patronising replies.
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2 hours ago, Granny Danger said:
Can’t recall any anti-Islam Tory stuff dominating the news for days on end the way this issue was just a couple of months back.
Aye, and 'couple of months back' is exactly the point. To quote yourself Granny, you repeatedly (and correctly IMO) asked for tangible evidence of Anti-Semitism within Labour; to my knowledge none has been forthcoming in that intervening period, and there is a limit to the public's credulity when all that is repeatedly presented to them is veiled smears, unattributed quotes, vague remarks and third-hand anecdotal evidence.
Berger, Hodge, Mann and the lot of them can fulminate sanctimoniously all they want; until they can produce the goods they should be sidelined by the media.
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I'd expect no less, but that doesn't alter my point - people are moving on, everything has a shelf-life.A banner running continually throughout the Sophy Ridge show.0 -
There's only so long you can peddle the same stuff before the zzzzzz factor kicks in, and we are now in that territory.Corbyn supposed anti-Semitism the lead story in the Sunday Times. I wonder why it’s suddenly back in the news.0 -
It's far, far too late now but from the off Labour should have been declaring that as the Referendum had its origins in internal Tory schisms as opposed to a public clamour, they absolutely reserved the right to determine their own response, as the SNP have effectively done. A position that has subsequently been vindicated by events.If Labour commit to Remain they will lose their Leave voters and gain absolutely no one from the other parties.
It's electoral suicide.
But no, because they have a dithering, dogmatic anti-EU p***k at the helm, Labour has allowed itself to be dragged into the same political cul-de-sac as the Tories, whilst matching them step for step in incoherence and infighting. A Brexit for jobs ? Aye, right. Every Brexit is a disaster.0 -
In other matters that looks like a desperate result for Labour in the Newport West by-election; I wonder if Corbyn will ponder the implications for his desired GE.
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This guy looks like the child Ron Mael, keyboard player of Sparks, never knew he had.The BBC Lighting department did a fair old hatchet job on him the other night in that respect...
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Flint and her Iike have neither the wit or wisdom to appreciate that what is shortly about to unfold will cast a die for generations to come. Rather than do the right thing and communicate to her electorate that the majority who voted Leave are wrong and more importantly WHY they are wrong she cravenly shits the contract. God help us when the good folk of Doncaster get the idea to restore the Death Penalty, reverse the 1967 Abortion Act or overturn Equality legislation.I don't disagree with any of this. It's a good post. Just pointing out that Flints constituency voted 69% leave so she's clearly going to try and respect their wishes. That's what politicians have always done.
GD, is just getting angry and name calling again.2 -
Cut the guy a bit of slack - if you are a pompous political no-mark fond of the sound of your own voice and you can't cut it during this cluster f**k then when can you ?Mark François making a point of order - such a fucking toad of a man.0 -
Nominally two parties, but for the last 20 years they have been two cheeks of the same arse. Corbyn and McDonnell could likely alter that, save for the fact that they will not be required to form a majority Labour Government. I wouldn't be contacting Paddy Power anytime soon.
We genuinely could be witnessing the end of the two party system in Westminster.0 -
If Remain was not on any second referendum ballot paper then millions should advertise their intention to boycott it in advance.I'm pretty sure remain will be on the ballot paper.
I'd be happy enough with that. Parliament agrees to May's deal going to a referendum v remain.
Remain wins and I can tell my wife 'told you so' in a very smug manner.
Brexiteers in tears and snottery meltdown and continued campaigning for another referendum forever.
PS. Today is Nigel Farage's birthday.0 -
Aye, good luck to him.
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I'm sure the Scottish Government recently produced figures showing that the percentage of Syrian refugees domiciled in Scotland is proportionally much greater than the rest of the UK.
That is true, but tens of thousands of Syrian refugees pouring across the borders of Europe on a way trudge to Grimsby at the time of the vote didn’t help the Remain cause either.
And the hypocrisy of the Leave voters is breathtaking; most of these idiots marching yesterday would be the first to complain if the Lidl in Boston started charging more for their vegetables if the cheap foreign labour fucked off, never mind the cash-in-hand Polish plumbers a lot of them will use.0 -
Thank you Granny, I'll sleep tonight, relegation six-pointer with Stenny tomorrow notwithstanding.A Customs Union would mean separate, independent trade deals were not possible. That’s why the rabid free marketeers don’t want it.
Moving away from the serious stuff; I hope Theresa May feels like shit tonight and has an insight into her own incompetence.0 -
Forgive me, Brexit fatigue setting in, but if a deal with a CU staggers through where does this leave trade deals ? Please tell me that we would be bound in a way that debarred the UK from prostrating itself before America. Please....
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Permit me a wry smile Ross [emoji6]She went to LSE as soon as she left school, and has lived in England for most of her time since then afaik. Her parents live just down the road from me, and she has/had an address in Milngavie, but I'm pretty sure she mainly lives down south. Saw her out running the other week mind you, so I'm not sure if she is up here full-time now or what.
I've met her a few times irl and her accent has always been the same. It's weird, but it's probably just been picked up from living/working in very middle class English surroundings. One of my best mates at Primary school moved to Australia, and when I met him again two years later he sounded fully Aussie. Must be a thing about the Milngavie accent being very easy to overpower.0 -
One thing's for sure, if anything does kick off in London or elsewhere we'll be relying on social media to find out about it - I doubt the BBC or the Murdoch media will put it above a stray cow on the M5.
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I believe Jackie Baillie grew up in South Africa, the rest of them have no excuse other than affectation.
If you listen carefully glimmers of Scottish come through. I find that kind of ashamed-to-be-Scottish accent really hard to get past and listen to the substance of what someone is saying.
See also Jackie Baillie, Fraser Nelson, Alex Massie.0 -
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Indeed, and under the Holyrood electoral system I have no problems with a system of balance, it's just that I draw the line at political nutters getting in on the votes of religiously bigoted nutters.I agree but didn't Annie Wells in particular scrape in with about 3000 votes?0 -
Er, not quite; there is a large grouping in Scotland, many of whom haven't a pot to piss in, who willingly vote for people like Annie Wells in a grotesque effort to preserve their heritage and cultural history, or whatever extreme Protestant bigotry is masquerading as these days. And Brexit itself has thrown up the wonderful irony of the full Pape Rees-Mogg hiding behind the Orange sashes of the DUP - it's a strange world, politics.Correct, they have either been born into, or have worked to achieve (the worst type of Tory) a position of financial comfort and prefer to act at all costs to grow that position at the expense of any morals they once had.
We all want a wee bit more, but if you are prepared to f**k other people over to get it, vote Tory.0 -
'Rickets and whippets' ? That's well out of order and I invite you to retract it.Yet the biggest remain vote was in 1. Scotland 2. London 3. Tory South East.
Without doubt Labour have a much bigger problem with a remain manifesto amongst the 'rickets and whippets' brigade than we Tories do elsewhere.0
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