Gordon Brown and wee Dougie Alexander once bestrode the world, bombing much of it. Now these mighty egos are confined within Elderslie Village Hall.
The problem is, the average member of the population does not have a high opinion of the dynamic duo. So it is essential that they are kept away from average people, and instead paraded only before vetted audiences of Labour activists. There are not very many of those; so the venues are tiny, with a small number of carefully bunched people holding silly placards, photographed by a compliant media only from carefully prepared angles.
Now I plunge happily into politically incorrect ground. As normal people have abandoned it and Labour has come down to the core of its core support, it is truly striking how remarkably ugly its hardcore activists are. I don’t mean that in any metaphorical sense. I mean that they are an aesthetic disaster. It is not a product of poverty, as the core support are all well employed as research assistants or doing pretendy youth work jobs for Labour councils. Other parties do not have such challenging physiognomy. It is very seldom you can look at a room and say Gordon Brown is one of the best looking people there. Perhaps Blair’s crimes have been written on the faces of all the complicit.
Douglas Alexander not only facilitated the use of Diego Garcia for torture and extraordinary rendition, in an act of extreme hypocrisy the evil little shit also declared a “marine conservation area” around it. In the 1960’s Britain forcibly deported the entire population of the islands to make way for the US Air Base. Faced with a continual political and legal fight for them to return, Alexander sought to make it impossible with his “marine conservation area”. There is nobody who better represents Scottish Labour’s loss of its soul than Alexander. If Mhairi beats him I shall be extremely happy.
Craig; “But please do not keep posting and linking to Putin propaganda on totally unrelated threads.”
Where’s the mirror request to RD who out-does John Goss in linking to off topic (anti)Russian stuff ? But then again you support & indulge in anti-Russian demonising yourself.
I have checked out Ba’al Zevul’s recommendation:
“I’ve just come across this guy, and his thoughts are worthy of a wider audience. Highly commended. Nailing some establishment bollocks rather precisely here*, also links to other voices not impressed by our socioeconomic system, if you can call it a system…
https://patricknelson750.wordpress.com/tag/tony-blair/”
and am, at first reading, quite impressed.
But I doubt that he will be a great hit with the Eminences and Useful Idiots on here because he is simply too…..balanced, normal, free of conspiracy theories, fair-minded, knee-jerk free. And it seems that he us capable of thinking for himself.
Here, for example, is what he says at the end of a long post on the recet Prince Andrew “affair”:
“As for the large section of the chattering classes which has responded to the accusations with equal delight (and an automatic assumption of Prince Andrew’s guilt) – what can we expect from from a bunch of people whose brains have been addled by the twin corrosive effects of too much alcohol, too little religion and degenerate cultural-Marxism.”
See what I mean? 🙂
Macky
You’re the Great Tit to Mr Goss’s Cuckoo! 🙂 🙂
11.16am rogue finger, rogue finger. The thought of typing my name has that effect on him!
My aim here is to contribute and to pass on info which others might not have time to find. Whereas these two are trolls only here for one purpose. I don’t get paid. They do.
The Artist Taxi Driver in Scotland: Glasgow Freedom (George) Square and Chunky Mark.
25 April 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fm5wVI4wJs#t=76
Tommy Sheridan “We are about to take Westmonster” Same location and date.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I3qDFa8FJc&feature=youtu.be
Mary
“11.16am rogue finger, rogue finger. The thought of typing my name has that effect on him!”
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You seem fascinated by my rogue finger.
But I don’t mind, I’m always happy to please a lady.
Yes, thank you Komodo, those are observations well worth a read. Very counter-intuive to the endless analysis-paralysis that the comrades-in-arms indulge in here from their limited knowledge.
“My aim here is to contribute and to pass on info which others might not have time to find.”
Perhaps you could pass on the truth about capital outflows from Russia under Putin rather than your ill founded allegations against those who point out your lies?
“My aim here is to contribute and to pass on info which others might not have time to find.”
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But, Mary, what makes you think that people wish to have that “info” pushed in front of their noses?
I mean, isn’t it a little …..presumptious of you?
Or even a tad bullying?
‘The English-speaking and western media have borrowed the term Russian oligarch (a near-synonym of the term “business oligarch” or “business magnate”) from Russian parlance to describe the huge, fast-acquired wealth of some businessmen of the former Soviet republics (mostly Russia and Ukraine) during privatization in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Businessmen with great wealth from these countries were commonly labeled “oligarchs” in Russian – regardless of whether they had real political power, as the term “oligarch” might imply. Analysts have drawn comparisons between the current Russian system of oligarchs and the system of powerful Boyars that emerged in late-Medieval Muscovy.’
‘During the 1990s, once Boris Yeltsin took office, the oligarchs emerged as well-connected entrepreneurs who started from nearly nothing and got rich through participation in the market via connections to the corrupt, but elected, government of Russia during the state’s transition to a market-based economy. The so-called voucher privatization program enabled a handful of young men to become billionaires, specifically by arbitraging the vast difference between old domestic prices for Russian commodities (e.g. gas, oil) and the prices prevailing on the world market. Because they stashed billions of dollars in private Swiss bank accounts rather than investing in the Russian economy, they were dubbed “kleptocrats.” These oligarchs became extremely unpopular with the Russian public, and are commonly thought to be the cause of much of the turmoil that plagued the country following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Guardian described the oligarchs as “about as popular with your average Russian as a man idly burning bundles of £50s outside an orphanage”.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarch
Predictable responses from the trolls including smut from Habbabkuk.
The ‘evil little shit’ – Douglas Alexander, the former solicitor and erstwhile Secretary of State for International Development was a keen supporter of the illegal invasion of Iraq, which has led to such international developments as, oh yes, Islamic State. No wonder he voted to oppose any inquiry into the Iraq massacre.
We all remember your phony ‘hand written’ letter for your Paisley ‘constituents’ Mr Alexander, manufactured in Northumberland.
N.B. An Iraq Anbar district hospital doctor has informed me the Iraqi volunteer forces found a cache of Israeli-made weapons in an ISIL position in al-Karmah city in Anbar province.
The ISIS Takfiri terrorists have links with Saudi intelligence and are ‘indirectly’ supported by the Israeli regime.
‘Walt’ Golding writes:
“N.B. An Iraq Anbar district hospital doctor has informed me the Iraqi volunteer forces found a cache of Israeli-made weapons in an ISIL position in al-Karmah city in Anbar province.”
Yes, of course, Walt. Your ‘sources’ can say anything you want them to say, can’t they. That’s because they exist only in your imagination, or otherwise, as with your Dubai SAS source, someone is playing you along for the gullible fool that you are!
“My aim here is to contribute and to pass on info which others might not have time to find.”
That is admirable, Mary, but rest assured, no one pays the slightest attention to any of it. We can all read Wikipedia should we wish to do so.
Lets nail the lie about the SNP being more anti-austerity than Labour – look at figure 4.1 here
http://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/bns/BN170.pdf
Mary – no one is denying that there were Russian oligarchs under Yeltsin – but to think that they have disappeared under Putin or even that the amounts of capital they have taken out of Russia has decreased is just delusional.
Apparently all was not peace and harmony at the Dope over Beer rally.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/scottish-politics/pro-independence-rally-did-not-have-permission-from-glasgow-council.124291486
At least the marching band didn’t blow anything up.
Yesterday’s Any Questions. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r71xk#auto
Q1 Miliband’s comments on Cameron ref Libya and ‘migrants’
Q2 13.10 in Coalition SNP/Labour or SNP/Tories
Q3 24.06 in Trident – nuclear deterrent yes or no
Q4 32.40 in Desirability of English nationalism – English laws for
English people
Q5 41.45in Janner/DPP
No 3 brought in.
Mary, thank you for unveiling your mission statement.
But the blog would be far healthier without your constant golden showers of cut-and-pissed. Why don’t you put up your email here and let those who want to subscribe to your services let you know.
Rich stuff for you to be talking about forum sliding and disruption by your imaginary trolls.
Mary
26/04/2015 12:37 pm
As I have said before, and others have said before, your provision of links and sources is very useful, and greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
John
Mary
It’s extremely rare for someone like, say, Tony Opmoc to be personally attacked, whose postings regarding his personal life are perhaps entertaining, but who seldom gives any solid background or information or links.
And yet you are under constant attack. Curious, isn’t it.
Tells the forum something, that, I am sure. After all, if people don’t like your postings, they have the option of ignoring them.
Kind regards,
John
Police Scotland are investigating a number of allegations regarding fraud, visa fraud, breaches of employment law and misconduct in public office at the department of Agriculture, Farming and Rural affairs IT department. The First Minister is reported to have been informed of the irregularities but did nothing about them.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/572945/Nicola-Sturgeon-linked-police-fraud-investigation-IT-workers
John Spencer-Davis
I don’t see any personal atracks on Mary. What I do see it perfectly justified attacks on the nature and content of her posts. All in keeping with a political blog.
Kind regards,
Anon
Predictable Anon1- May I suggest you return to the bashaleni and learn to accept an axiom of certainty cannot be dismissed just because it debases your myopic reality.
Your pathetic derision only serves to expose your identity; instead of dancing around prevarication have the back-bone to publicly call me a liar or shut the fuck up.
JSD
So when I am attacked you don’t think I should have the freedom to respond. How would you respond if you were consistently accused of being a troll, a fascist, a paid agent, a spook, a shill and told that your relatives would be ashamed of you amongst other things. I’m afraid my days of turning the other cheek ended a long time ago – if people are civil to me, I shall return that civility, but otherwise they will get a response in kind.
Anon
26/04/2015 2:18 pm
“I don’t see any personal attacks on Mary.”
That tells me all I need to know.
J
You’re a liar and a fantasist, Mark.
Resident Dissident
26/04/2015 2:28 pm
I haven’t said a single word about your freedom to say whatever you like.
Do please try to refrain from putting words in my mouth.
Kind regards,
John
I suggest everyone reads Fred’s article, linked to above. Quite an eye-opener!
(NB: this is Gnasher’s Scotland, not the Tories.)
“Douglas Alexander not only facilitated the use of Diego Garcia for torture and extraordinary rendition, in an act of extreme hypocrisy the evil little shit also declared a “marine conservation area” around it. In the 1960’s Britain forcibly deported the entire population of the islands to make way for the US Air Base.”
Certainly plenty of marines there now – along with USAF!