There is a good and balanced article in the Guardian on the SNP MPs by Carole Cadwalladr. Thank goodness Severin Carrell and Libby Brooks must have been unavailable. I am struck that of those she chose to interview, Tommy Sheppard (my MP), Mhairi Black, Chris Law, Michelle Thomson, John Nicolson, Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh are all people I am on first name terms with and almost all of whom I have shared platforms with. It is quite a small community (though until the selection panel I hadn’t seen John Nicolson for 30 years).
Cadwalladr’s worry that the MPs will become seduced by Westminster has worried me too. But I don’t think it will happen. These are exceptionally strong characters and there is a self-reinforcing group of them, and they have a very active base of supporters with eagle eyes.
Naturally Cadwalladr’s article relays as fact ludicrous Labour claims that the SNP in Scotland does not implement progressive social policies (ignoring no tuition fees, free prescriptions, free geriatric personal care, land reform etc). Given it’s lack of control of fiscal and benefits policy, they could hardly do more. But the general tone of the Cadwalladr article is so far away from the simplistic “SNP evil” line which we normally see from the Guardian, that I shall hope for a while that the departure of the Blair-worshipping clown Rusbridger and his wig may see the paper return to some kind of journalistic values.
If he were a muslim however it would all be to do with his culture.
Indeed. Hence, for example, all the media talk conflating FGM to Islam and not a word uttered about the depraved mutilation of young boys in the name of Judaism.
If Corbyn doesn’t get elected as the Labour party leader he and others will have to start a new party (I’d strongly advise them to do that anyway).
There were lots of demonstrations on Budget Day, none of it reported by the MSM…
http://www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/8th_of_july_national_day_of_protest_live_blog
… and whilst none of these demonstrations were massive (unlike the one in London last month) they are a hint of what’s coming.
As far as I can tell, Galloway’s Respect Party shares the same policies and values as those espoused by Corbyn. Galloway, ought to drop his candidature for London Mayor and team up with Corbyn and encourage other “old Labour” members to team up with them.
Oh dear, it’s dreadful having lost one’s faculties to dementia. I seem to have wandered into some sort of pediatric oncology ward… Hello, little Jimmy, I’m a magician! Want to see a magic trick? Wait, What’s this behind your fly, A shilling? Various multicolored handkerchiefs knotted together? Oh, How do you do madam …How dare you? Unhand me, you ruffians!
Now where were we? Yes, of course, Tasmina. Not my type I’m afraid! You’d have to ask Andrew. As a ten-year-old she was sound on fiscal issues but often a bit snippy with the Junior Bogrim. Lifelong interest in public affairs. She was positively besotted with her I Can Be President Barbie, and no one had the heart to tell her that she couldn’t be. That’s how she got her start, actually.
Sent from my ipad.
“As far as I can tell, Galloway’s Respect Party shares the same policies and values as those espoused by Corbyn.”
Are loyalty and opposing tyrants values these days?
“If Corbyn doesn’t get elected as the Labour party leader he and others will have to start a new party (I’d strongly advise them to do that anyway).”
Wrong on both counts.
Daniel
Cut your garbage there is circumscision in Islam as well. I’m afraid you have been thoroughly outed.
There were lots of demonstrations on Budget Day, none of it reported by the MSM…
Wrong again
https://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=deFJXea7iqGApKMeK0NxqB4k2xG_M&q=people's+assembly+protests+budget+day&lr=English&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9tuiVbSnD4nh7Abo5IaoAw&ved=0CCQQqgIwAA
Left Unity is the obvious choice for Corbyn and Galloway.
“Cut your garbage there is circumscision in Islam as well.”
I didn’t claim otherwise.
@Resident Dissident
12 Jul, 2015 – 10:23 pm
Perhaps you can explain why?
There are a huge number of people who say that if SNP candidates had stood in England and Wales they would have voted for them.
The Stepford Wives la la land (aka MSM) gives a different narrative.
A real ‘Labour Party’ would wipe the board in any future election. It’s a given.
But it’s not what our corporate masters want.
I’ll repeat the link to what Harman has said today…
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/12/harman-labour-not-vote-against-welfare-bill-limit-child-tax-credits
“Are loyalty and opposing tyrants values these days?”
What’s you point?
“Left Unity is the obvious choice for Corbyn and Galloway.”
Yes, I agree. The trouble is, Galloway’s inflated ego gets in the way.
Daniel
“Hence, for example, all the media talk conflating FGM to Islam and not a word uttered about the depraved mutilation of young boys in the name of Judaism.”
__________________
Ah, I see you are of the Doug Scorgie persuasion.
He often goes on about (male) circumcision as well.
Shalom.
“There were lots of demonstrations on Budget Day, none of it reported by the MSM…
Wrong again”
The Guardian editorial recently seems to be going for an independent approach, appealing for subscribers and tackling big issues in a balanced way. I don’t know if things have changed but the Manchester Evening News used to be under the Guardian umbrella. So the real answer, that still being the case, is one of the MSM newspapers reported on demonstrations.
We had one in Birmingham which ambled from Waterstones to Victoria Square and after more speeches to the BBC offices. Where was the BBC? I hope you can find that report Resident Dissident. Thanks.
I haven’t got a clue who Doug Scorgie is. I have mentioned genital mutilation of boys once only. The act is repugnant don’t you agree?
Shalom Habbabkuk. To the world shalom.
I have read Doug Scorgie’s pieces on male circumcision and believe he has a point. My own belief is much more simple. If God really wanted to remove the flabby skin that protects the glans penis future offspring would not be born with foreskins. Is that logical?
Daniel
“I haven’t got a clue who Doug Scorgie is”
________________
Really? In order to enlighten you, he was of this blog’s egregious Excellences but has gone quiet recently. Claimed he was a black lawyer living in Wimbledon. A bit of a what=abouter: whenever someone mentioed FGM he used to say “what about male circumcision? (always referring to Jews of course,never to Muslims).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“I have mentioned genital mutilation of boys once only. The act is repugnant don’t you agree?”
_______________
Not especially, no. But you seem to find it so = care to tell us why?
Goss
I don’t think it is the BBC’s job to report on every demonstration that you may attend. Some of us want to know what is going on in the rest of the world.
“Left Unity is the obvious choice for Corbyn and Galloway”
A bit unfair to assign Jeremy to political oblivion I would say. Please remind us how Left Unity did in the last election.
Hi John
“If God really wanted to remove the clitoris that offers most women great sexual satisfaction future female offspring would not be born with foreskins.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Whereas they say that circumcised males tend to be better cocksmen – not that I’d know, of course 🙂 )
“Not especially, no.”
I’ll leave it at that.
“There are a huge number of people who say that if SNP candidates had stood in England and Wales they would have voted for them.”
There were a rather larger number however who went and voted Tory because they didn’t want to see Labour beholden to the SNP for support – which is of course something that ersatz lefties would have found out if they had actually gone out and spoken to some ordinary electors rather than pontificating while sitting on their arse in deepest France.
John
Spot the unintentional error in the second line, haha
I am merely interested in all the news reports about Savile. The report from the St. Louis Jewish paper just came up on a Google search. And what particularly interested me in it was the mention of the use he made of his magic tricks to ingratiate himself with boys. I have previously been challenged on this forum about things I have speculated based on Janner’s having been a member of the Magic Circle.
And note that I also posted a new report about Savile, who was not a Jew.
Daniel
““Not especially, no.”
I’ll leave it at that.”
___________________
Oh, don’t do that = do tell us why you find male circumcision so repugnant.
You can’t?
Oh, OK.
“All the news reports about Janner”, is what I meant.
Good try, Lysias.
Good try on the part of the Invigilator to discourage any postings about Janner. Good try, but no cigar.
The notion that mutilating young boys is repugnant merits no further explanation.
@Resident Dissident
12 Jul, 2015 – 11:04 pm
36% of those who voted, and 24% of those eligible to vote put an X beside the psychos who are now the government (and just about the entire MSM were pushing these arseholes). Hardly a ringing endorsement, old chap.
And I’m not sure why Habba keeps going on about genital mutilation; probably because he went to boarding school.