I am considering standing for Berwick upon Tweed on the platform of the constituency joining Scotland. This boundary adjustment would give the people access to free personal care, free prescriptions, no university tuition fees and the many other advantages of Scotland’s more society friendly government. It would give Scotland some thriving new communities and a more favourable future North Sea boundary.
I realise no Independent has been elected in modern times unless they were a sitting MP, or major parties stood down in their favour. In fact the 5% I obtained in Blackburn was the best showing since 1945 by an Independent where those conditions were absent. I realise this is a rather Quixotic reaction to my rejection by the SNP hierarchy, and would result in loss of time, energy and money. On the other hand, I understand quite a lot of people in Berwick wish the constituency to be in Scotland and it would be good to give them the chance to express that. As the seat is a Tory/Liberal marginal the alternatives are hopeless.
I think my friends really ought to talk me out of this.
Inasmuchas your candidacy would serve to emphasise that chasm that exists between the Westminster “experience” and the experience of Westminster by everyone North of Watford, this would be a good idea.
I will not talk you out of it, I am not your friend 🙂
“The last time the town changed hands was 1482 which i think is a little beyond living memory.”
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So is the formation of Palestine, but it hasn’t stopped the Jews, talking about it, writing about it, invading it and eventually stealing it.
Change can happen anytime just ask the Palestinians.
Lysias
Beith is an ardent Zionist supporter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_Friends_of_Israel
The spending of US military madmen/presidents Bush and Obama.
The Cost of US Wars Since 9/11: $1.6 Trillion
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/12/crs-report-war-spending-trillion
A graphic
http://mjdwcharts.s3.amazonaws.com/7nTPt/2/index.html
When Nicola Sturgeon appeared in Aberdeen last month she stated that the SNP would not contest any English seats, so the way is probably clear if you go for it. This is after Christine Grahame had expressed an interest.
You never know, some indy supporters may cross the border to help!
What is all this ridiculing of fools? Isn’t Don Quixote a model fool. We are all sublime fools unaware of our subliminal thoughts, motivations and impulses. Remember you are a fool only in notional control of a damn fine piece of machinery and you are off to a good start.
Billionaire Bill Gates wants to quench the world’s thirst. But instead of inventing a new method of utilizing rain water, the computer programmer wants people to drink recycled poop.
In his latest article on his blog site GatesNotes, the co-founder of Microsoft unconvincingly tries to sell the idea that drinking processed shit water is a good thing.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bill-gates-wants-people-to-drink-sht-water.html
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So Bill (The inoculator of of poisons in Africa & India) Gates, wants us all to drink excuse my French “Shit Water.”
Looking at some of the comments on here by you know who, and his side kicks, it would appear they’re already drinking it by the bucket full.
Boris Johnson today revealed his ‘sympathy’ for Prince Andrew over US court claims he had sex with an under-age girl.
The London Mayor hailed the Duke of York for doing a ‘huge amount of unsung, unheralded work for this country’.
It follows four days of torrid headlines for the prince after the allegations emerged in court papers on Friday.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2898678/Boris-Johnson-sympathy-Prince-Andrew.html
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Erm, Just what exactly does Prince Andrew do for the UK, what “huge” amount has he done, or has BoJo been smoking those funny cigarettes.
Just days after the Israeli government announced it is seizing some $100 million in tax money from the Palestinian Authority to “punish” them for trying to join the International Criminal Courts (ICC), the Israeli state-run electric company has announced it will cut off electricity supplies to the Palestinians for non-payment.
http://news.antiwar.com/2015/01/05/israel-prepares-to-cut-electricity-to-palestinians/
RepublicOfFools
“Habb
Re your above remark, please at least have the decency to comment on the subject matter first as a mark of respect to Craig, before launching into on of your philosophical dross filled drones, about other posters comments.”
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Silly boy!
Mark Golding, Mary and Nevermind all brought up Charlie Hebdo and the Paris slayings before I did, but none of them commented on Craig’s subject matter first as a “mark of respect”.
Should your admonition not, therefore, have been addressed to them?
You’re not a very good troll, are you. 🙂
RepublicOfUselessTrolls
“Just days after the Israeli government announced it is seizing some $100 million in tax money from the Palestinian Authority to “punish” them for trying to join the International Criminal Courts (ICC), the Israeli state-run electric company has announced it will cut off electricity supplies to the Palestinians for non-payment.
http://news.antiwar.com/2015/01/05/israel-prepares-to-cut-electricity-to-palestinians/”
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Zzzzzzzzz…
BTW, did not the Russian govt cut off gas supplies to Ukraine a few years ago for non-payment of bills?
Did you post about that at the time?
Just askin’
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You’re really not a very good troll, are you. 🙂
RepublicOfPatheticPoints
“Erm, Just what exactly does Prince Andrew do for the UK, what “huge” amount has he done, or has BoJo been smoking those funny cigarettes.”
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I think Boris us out of those smokes.
But perhaps he’s been reading your “comments” on this blog?
“Lysias
Beith is an ardent Zionist supporter.”
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Which makes him the Devil incarnate, eh, Mary?
Node
“None of us know whether or not Charlie Hebdo is a false flag, but anyone who ridicules that possibility is ignorant, duplicitous, or a FOOL.
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Well, none of us does know, but that doesn’t seem to stop you and a couple of others from apparently believing that it was.
Jemand; “All enabled by Islam collaborators, apologists, and those who censor free speech about the nascent civil war with muslim communities.”
Too many things with this one sentence to deal with, but let’s look at the “free speech” angle, and what do we find ? That’s it’s not only limited anyway, but in such a bias one way, that could perhaps incite & tip extremists over the top;
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/06/police-increasingly-monitoring-criminalizing-online-speech/
RepublicOfDaringThoughts
“After all its only been fives years, I’m sure the they’ll string it out a lot longer, to prevent war criminals such as Blair and Bush, from receiving a tough time of it.”
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Lack of logic there, I’m afraid.
If publication of the Report is going to give Blair a tough time, he will get a tough time whenever it’s published, won’t he.
Therefore it matters little whether the Report is published before or after the election, doesn’t it.
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You are really a pretty useless troll. 🙂
Good old Macky!
“Too many things with this one sentence to deal with, but let’s look at the “free speech” angle, and what do we find ? That’s it’s not only limited anyway, but in such a bias one way, that could perhaps incite & tip extremists over the top;”
It wuz the monitorin’ what made me do it, m’Lud!
Macky, you are really a very big fool.
Hey Mary!
Seven in a row – hope you noticed!
How about a long diversionary post from you – perhaps about David Cameron’s Jewish great grandmother. Or perhaps solmething about privatising OUR NHS?
Look sharp, now!
Habbabkuk: “Macky, you are really a very big fool”
A fool does foolish things, like responds to somebody’s posts in less time then it takes to read the linked article, and then posts a cheap & empty quip to what he hasn’t read.
The latest wobble in the Washington-Brussels axis against Russia, as expressed this week by Francois Hollande, has to be seen as good news. In that, at last, finally, official Europe is coming to its senses about the dangerous course the US is driving.
French President Francois Hollande this week called for an end to Western sanctions on Russia. He is the latest senior European political figure to express misgivings about the hostile policy that Washington and Brussels have embarked on against Russia over the year-old Ukrainian crisis.
BBC report added: “Politicians in Italy, Hungary and Slovakia are among those who want the sanctions eased.”
To that list we could append Germany, Austria, Spain, Greece, Czech Republic and Bulgaria, among others.’
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Hopefully common sense will prevail and the sanctions will be eased, how much longer will Europe lower itself, by playing the obedient monkey, to the USA’s organ grinder.
Speaking to +972, Israeli human rights lawyer Lynda Brayer remarks, “When we say moral, we’re talking about the general principle of behavior to promote, sustain, nurture, and help human life… international law reflects, on paper, moral values as we understand them.”
The Palestinian’s legal right to resist occupation—to fight for their ability to promote, sustain, and nurture human life, to fight for their right to grow, to flourish—comes from two documents: the 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and the Fourth Geneva Convention and its subsequent protocols.
Taken together, people have the right to “fight against colonial domination and alien occupation in the exercise of their right to self-determination,” Brayer explained.’
http://972mag.com/on-the-palestinians-legal-right-to-fight-the-occupation/30855/
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Eloquently put.
Liberal retards, profoundly ignorant of the subject matter on which they comment ad nauseum, would never accept the studious and highly regarded opinions of a complete nobody like Salman Rushdie, would they?
http://time.com/3657541/charlie-hebdo-paris-terror-attack-salman-rushdie/
Macky
I’m a very quick reader.
One has to be, alas! if one wishes to educate the Original Trolls and Useful Idiots on here.
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“It wuz the monitorin’ what made me do it, m’Lud!”
Great idea Craig – Go for it.
Berwick would be much better off as the “Gateway to Scotland” instead of a backwater of Ukania.
Berwick needs you!
p.s. does that also mean that indy Sdotland gets even more of the the North Sea oil field rights back?
What a bonus.
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Sixty-four unskilled workers will report to new jobs in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday as part of a federal jobs program that provides employment for people unable to find productive work elsewhere.
The new hires, who have no talents or abilities that would make them employable in most workplaces, will be earning a first-year salary of $174,000.
For that sum, the new employees will be expected to work a hundred and thirty-seven days a year, leaving them with two hundred and twenty-eight days of vacation.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/unskilled-workers-report-new-jobs
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Satirical but sadly true, I wonder how many unskilled and useless people infest, the debauched and decadent halls of Westminster.
“And it would also give you a platform to discuss those maritime border changes that were rushed thru on the eve of devolution by the War Criminal.”
Before the Nationalists start changing any lines on maps could they please check with us people who live in Scotland first please because right now those disputed oil fields out there in the North Sea are looking a lot like some very expensive liabilities.
http://forargyll.com/2015/01/why-north-sea-is-crisis-for-uk/
Can’t think why we would want Berwick-upon-Tweed either.
Tony_0pmoc
7 Jan, 2015 – 3:11 pm
I was monitoring the Paris headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo from an early tweet here: https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1?original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Frt.com%2Fnews%2F220519-shooting-france-police-paris%2F&tw_i=552795600744218624&tw_p=tweetembed
Interestingly the police and special services were present around 7am before the ‘terrorists’ entered the building . I have fired a number of weapons. The look and sound of the ballistics of the pavement shot indicated to me they were firing blanks.
According to Le Parisien, the officer was heard in one video clip to say: “Voulez-vous me tuer? (Do you want to kill me?)”.
The gunman responded: “C’est bon chef.” [translate] It’s good leader??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csb2SqVAl78&feature=youtu.be
“Billionaire Bill Gates wants to quench the world’s thirst. But instead of inventing a new method of utilizing rain water, the computer programmer wants people to drink recycled poop.”
Completely false. Recycling schemes recycle water, not shit. The water you drink from a dam has already washed over dead animals, their shit, and various pollutants before being pumped into your home. And for millions of years, that same water has washed through the arseholes of trillions of animals. Clean water is clean water and nothing else.
Looks like “false flagging” is the new apologism for Islamic violence. Conveniently, it doesn’t even require any fact checking before deployment.
Mark Golding, you are a fucking weirdo. Shut up with your moronic false flagging you dopey retard.