I am available again for Yes meetings on 15, 16 and 17 September. Invitations welcome through the contact button above. Happy to go anywhere I can do good. My St Andrews speech a week ago has now had 75,000 views on Youtube.
It is symptomatic of the way this campaign has gone that I can find nothing online from the No camp which has had one fifth as many views, with the solitary exception of the PatronisngBTWoman video, which has massive views from people making fun of it.
Miliband was in Blantyre yesterday where his every bodily function was breathlessly reported by Severin Carrell in the Guardian – but even the Guardian could not pretend his audience in the “Labour stronghold” amounted to more than “dozens”. I am told it was under fifty. Better Together support on the ground has simply evaporated. What they rely on is that the massive output of mainstream media and the authority of the Westminster parties will have sufficient impact on their key demographics – pensioners, and housewives in a 1950’s sense – to shore up a residual no vote of the easily scared. My challenge to people to identify any Better Together gathering of more than 300 has been met with resounding silence.
Television has been wall to wall Miliband lately, and the BBC in Scotland seem to have simply abandoned their obligation to give equal broadcast time and treatment to both sides. Presumably many of the New Labour hacks who control Pacific Quay realise that their behaviour has made a Yes win a career threatening situation for them, so at this stage they see nothing to lose.
If independence is achieved it will be down to a popular movement and not to any politician. Indeed, if one person has to be singled out, I would say the Rev Stuart Campbell has made the most decisive individual contribution in the campaign. If Social media has beaten the mainstream media, the central rock around which millions of flowers have bloomed has been the Wings over Scotland website. This has a significantly larger daily readership than any newspaper in Scotland. The Wee Blue Book I found everywhere, including copies already available in pretty well every pub I entered, as I toured the East Coast. Over 400,000 downloads of the PDF have been made and 250,000 copies centrally printed, as well as a number of private initiatives which had already obtained professional printings from the PDF. Conservatively, there are over half a million hard copies out there, as well as all the reads online. In a population of 5.2 million, that is a major impact.
When we close down BBC Scotland and create a new citizen based, cheaper and more arts-oriented organisation in its place, let’s put Stuart Campbell in charge. Some state-funded drama and arts output seems to me commendable. State funding of pap entertainment is not needed – the private sector can do that perfectly well. State funding of “journalism” which investigates nothing and never challenges the establishment must be stopped.
” If only they had some bearing on something.”
You win the innertoob prize for redemptive self-awareness, pot/kettle.
I didn’t think you were stoopid, along with all your other fine qualities.
“I was hoping someone, you know, concerned with the efficacy of the blog would call her out on that. It’s a Habby sentence for sure.”
MY sentence, Ben. MY sentence. And Craig is welcome to tell you my IP address any time. It might show me as being in Limerick, which is incorrect, it has something to do with 3-Ireland servers.
IOW, Fuck off. You’re a low-life and a liar.
“There should be a law against Palestinian Genocide deniers.”
There is no law against denying any Genocide in Britain.
There is a law against inciting racial or religious hatred though which denying or belittling the German National Socialist persecution of the Jews is generally accepted as being.
But please yourself. I have long argued against Nationalism to be told that Scottish Nationalism was different, they weren’t like the other Nationalists, the Scots weren’t racist bigots. You are doing a fine job of proving me right and them wrong.
Dreoilin
7 Sep, 2014 – 3:33 pm
“I’ve never seen anyone like Fedup who can take 40 lines to say what he could say in three.”
“I wonder does he lecture like that in the mosque?”
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Is Fedup a Muslim Dreoilin? Perhaps he is but to me that wouldn’t matter, you seem to have a problem with it. Are you racist in that sense?
Also you have changed tack recently, like a few others on here, who have let their masks slip. You now sound like a Zionist supporter to me.
Have you and Habbabkuk met?
You seem to have swallowed his hasbara; is that all you’ve swallowed?
Does your husband know that you use this blog to meet up with anonymous males?
“MY sentence, Ben” Your words, maybe, but that pasted drone appears frequently under the name Hababkuk, so you aren’t fooling anyone with your denial.
“Craig is welcome to tell you my IP address any time.”
Your words again, which I already addressed to your obsessive accusations, so the same applies to both of us. Now why don’t you email Craig as to my identity, pot/kettle.
But please yourself. I have long argued against Nationalism to be told that Scottish Nationalism was different, they weren’t like the other Nationalists, the Scots weren’t racist bigots. You are doing a fine job of proving me right and them wrong.
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Get off your high horse the thought of you trying to post a noble-esque comment, is funny as hell, you just have to glance over to Tel Aviv to see the ugly face of nationalism as it was never intended to be.
A new rapid reaction force, likely numbering at least 4,000 and ready to be deployed within 48 hours, will be created in Eastern Europe, after a decision by the 28 NATO member states following a conference in Wales.
Danish privatisation and welfare state carper, Fogh Rasmussen said “This spearhead will include several thousand land troops ready to deploy within a few days with air, sea and Special Forces support.”
The task will be to initiate an offensive role; the detestable ‘shock & awe’ enmity that ripped into Iraq from the air above.
The venue for the next NATO summit in 2016 is Warsaw and Fogh Rasmussen jabbered the location would “send a strong signal of Polish involvement in the alliance and a very visible presence by NATO in the eastern regions of the alliance.”
NATO is moving East towards China and missile defence systems will enclose Russia before the Western alliance steps up with the nuclear jackboot.
Royal Naval submarine commanders have earlier been fed data from FLASH and SPARTAN dipping sonar to track and pursue Russian SLBM Borei-class nuclear submarines that deploy the Bulava ICBM.
Approximately 500 unmanned USV vehicles will track down Russian submersibles while missile shields in Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Poland will block a ‘dead-hand’ nuclear launch from land-based systems in Russia totalling around 500 ICBM’s.
http://www.businessinsider.in/Russia-May-Still-Have-An-Automated-Nuclear-Launch-System-Aimed-Across-The-Northern-Hemisphere/articleshow/41726405.cms
I predict a UK/US/IS nuclear preemptive strike against Russia sometime in late 2016.
“Get off your high horse the thought of you trying to post a noble-esque comment, is funny as hell, you just have to glance over to Tel Aviv to see the ugly face of nationalism as it was never intended to be.”
I have always been a supporter of the Palestinian cause both here and on other forums.
I argue against racist bigotry wherever I see it. The Zionist doctrine is an evil doctrine and so is yours.
“The Zionist doctrine is an evil doctrine and so is yours.”
Fred; how do you feel about European bigotry and condescension toward Americans? (or do you dispute?)
Do you think Americans who largely support Israel as a function of ignorance, willful or otherwise, and swallow the US flounder whole, are complicit in the evildoing? Are they stupid and valueless, or just plain disinterested?
“I predict a UK/US/IS nuclear preemptive strike against Russia sometime in late 2016.”
I predict another prediction to add to your long list of failed predictions.
Now the resident mystic, dreo, the all seeing all knowing, harridan calls me out on my laughing. Is there no end to her powers of seeing all these things?
The helter-skelter hormones are now convincing her, of her astral projections, not only can she “know” about ROS being none European, watch me lecturing and sermonising in the mosque, but here in my sitting room she can see I am not laughing.
That is while she is fighting Ben and calling him names too. In addition to fighting with Mary and all the while cosying up to self inflicted.
Has Mr. dreo done a Houdini? (disappeared) Not that I blame the poor chap. Mr. dreo we salute you.
Shameful, misogyny and ageism is now added to racism and cosy chats with racists. You do know you expose yourselves with every line, I hope.
“Fred; how do you feel about European bigotry and condescension toward Americans? (or do you dispute?)”
Do you think Americans are being persecuted by European Nationalists Ben? As the Jews were persecuted by the German Nationalists and the Palestinians by the Jewish Nationalists?
“”People would make jokes about Americans but I didn’t experience the pure hatred I have had since I came to live here.
“I appreciate that British people often don’t understand why I have so much pride, they think it’s brainwashing.
“And I do think some people in the US need to be more educated about what’s going on in the world.
“But some people just fly off the handle without even talking to me – it’s as if they had been waiting to run into an American all day to let their feelings out,” she says.
To avoid confrontations she says she lowers her voice on the Underground and in pubs.
But in one incident an older man asked her directly if she was American.
“When I said yes he said: ‘I just want you to know that I think you are the poorest people I have ever met in my life’ – meaning we were low-life.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4881474.stm
Did she just have a run of bad luck?
“Your words, maybe, but that pasted drone appears frequently under the name Hababkuk”
It was I who recently commented that you had arrived, along with Republicofscotland, heading for 10am your time. Not Habbabkuk.
You have obviously decided, Ben, that the best form of defence is attack. So you try to portray me as a sock-puppet of Habbabkuk. But there is a fly in your ointment.
I have been here since 2005 – long before either Habba or yourself appeared. Before Mary, in fact. So don’t waste your little finger tips on that line of argument. Have a look at the archives.
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As for Doug and his juvenile spewings, I wouldn’t waste my time on the little shit.
I’m just exploring your deep hatred fro racism, Fred.
Ben (The Caring American Nazi)
“” accusation of genocide is facile and absurd.”
Not according to UN. The deliberate destruction of the Al-Badr grain mill..”
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Well, I was asked for my opinion and I gave it. You’re not obliged to agree but I would appreciate it if you backed up your assertion with the precise quotation from the UN (relevant text and reference to the report/doc…containing the text)
Ta!
In comes another one of the defenders. guns a blazing with big words out of the square window; “misogyny”. Oh Mr. Darcy, my smelling salts, I feel so faint!
I am being assailed as in evidence, and it seems I am the “racist”, “ageist”, is there an “ist” that I am not a card carrying member of?
ROFL, expose…… I am pissing myself laughing……………. desperations galore, …………..
“It was I who recently commented that you had arrived, along with Republicofscotland, heading for 10am your time. Not Habbabkuk.”
No shit. That’s exactly my point. You have absorbed a prattle from your mentor, making you sound a lot like him. Alas, you haven’t noticed.
I have always been a supporter of the Palestinian cause both here and on other forums.
I argue against racist bigotry wherever I see it. The Zionist doctrine is an evil doctrine and so is yours.
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Really! funny I’ve never seen a post of yours berating Habb for being a Palestinian Genocide denier, nor berating anyone else for Israel’s murderous doctrine, since I’ve posted in here.
Yet you’re quick of the mark at decrying anyone who debates WWII events, Hmm!
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I have no doctrine.
Well, I was asked for my opinion and I gave it. You’re not obliged to agree but I would appreciate it if you backed up your assertion with the precise quotation from the UN (relevant text and reference to the report/doc…containing the text)
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Pfft What a cheek, I haven’t seen you back up any comment with a link recently.
Oh, that’s right deniers don’t need evidence, they have goons to enforce their lies.
“I would appreciate it if you backed up your assertion ”
If you can’t do your own research, I’m certainly not going to be your butler.
“That’s exactly my point. You have absorbed a prattle from your mentor, making you sound a lot like him. Alas, you haven’t noticed.”
I don’t have a mentor. At least, not here. And you and Republicofscotland have the same strange habit of putting commas entirely in wrong places. Alas, you haven’t noticed (or amended.)
As Doug gets in the neck too
ROFL
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We can crowd fund a movie, dreo hates the world other than self inflicted, villager, Jemand the deviant, res Cliché, oh and tech col. The story of a harridan let loose on the cyberspace.
As someone you gave up the chance to be a citizen of the USA (and thus have a long-term relationship with the IRS) I have always thought UK incomprehension was a function of distance. There’s not much serious coverage of California on UK TV. The great thing about US nationals is a willingness to ask questions without worrying about embarrassment, whereas the British (and most certainly the English) refuse to show curiosity for fear of betraying some lack of education. This sometimes gets US citizens into trouble, but they are less likely to get lost. And one of the funniest shows on MTV used to be the one with “living, dead or Canadian?”.
I have been here since 2005 – long before either Habba or yourself appeared. Before Mary, in fact. So don’t waste your little finger tips on that line of argument. Have a look at the archives.
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Since 2005 you say? no wonder your comments are jaded, and flat, you’ve ran out of anything half decent to say, like a flaccid old hooker,you spun your last trick years ago,time to get out of here and stop embarrassing yourself.
“have the same strange habit of putting commas entirely in wrong places.”
“I have no mentor..”
Jeebus.
“Did she just have a run of bad luck?”
From what she says it sounds like exactly the sort of thing which I oppose and Nationalists support. It makes no difference who is doing it or who it is directed against.
That’s right, you carry on ‘pissing yourself’, person known as Fedup. The rest of you can keep on with your cosy little chats with someone whose extreme racism got whole threads deleted, while screaming ‘troll’ and other assorted insults at someone who’s been a voice of reason and humanity on this blog far longer than any of you. As a sideshow you can carry on screaming ‘troll’ at people who you clearly miss when they’re not around, judging by the many wistful little comments in their absence. Pleased with yourselves? I should think so; Phil has you bang to rights, I think.
I don’t have a mentor. At least, not here. And you and Republicofscotland have the same strange habit of putting commas entirely in wrong places. Alas, you haven’t noticed (or amended.)
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Someone call the “Grammar Police” what a sad little git you are, when your top priority is worrying where commas are placed, pathetic if you ask me.