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.
Yes, of course the commas are very obvious, good thing she called you out on your equally obvious and repulsive anti-semitism too, wasn’t it?
Republicofperspiringdreams, Ben (California Nazi), Fedup (The Old Lag):
You three are really feeling the heat, aren’t you.
Keep runnin’ ! 🙂
“makes no difference who is doing it or who it is directed against.”
It was an example, that’s all. It wasn’t my point.
Do you think Americans are complicit in USdotgov offshore activity? Does large public support for Israel put Americans, and Israeli citizens in the Zionist camp?
“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”
Addressing this to Craig, are you? Or are you just content to drag his blog down and play on the pathetic tribalism of half of its inhabitants?
“Addressing this to Craig, are you? Or are you just content to drag his blog down and play on the pathetic tribalism of half of its inhabitants?”
Another Jeebus. Can we have more poster-children for redemptive self-awareness?
Yes, of course the commas are very obvious, good thing she called you out on your equally obvious and repulsive anti-semitism too, wasn’t it?
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Another grammar gremlin, there’s nothing glorious about technicolour, who by his above comment, is another Palestinian genocide denier,repulsive aren’t you?
“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.”
You do tend to only see what you want to see.
Thanks ever so much for granting me the right to carry on laughing as I am pissing myself!
Evidently there is a hierarchy of seniority for those who posted here in 190donkey, sort of closer to the entrance car parking perks and other little special status symbols …….ROFL
Threads getting deleted have nothing to do with racism but a calculated move on the part of the blog owner. So stop taking advantage of tastes and preferences, by shoving your utter nonsense, diatribe about racism (never seen you ever pull Jemand the deviant, villager, canspec…. et al) so don’t come that one.
You are not talking to a bunch of kids remember, most of us have been around the block a few times, and have seen many of your kind.
How about German citizens of the Third Reich? Were they complicit in the murder of 11 million in concentration camps?
“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.”
Well said, Technicolour.
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“no wonder your comments are jaded, and flat”
Really? Amazing how much of a storm ‘jaded and flat’ comments can cause. Not to mention ‘flaccid’. People up on their hind legs just drooling to have a go at me. LOL!
I’ll have to leave you to your own devices shortly, I’m afraid. I have responsibilities here.
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“have the same strange habit of putting commas entirely in wrong places.”
“I have no mentor..”
“Jeebus.”
Yes, Habba asked me if I had noticed any similarities of style between people. I mentioned the commas. He said “correct”. That’s my problem?? Habbabkuk wasn’t even watching you. He had his eye on the absence of Herbie, as far as I could see.
You’re getting tiresome with your excuses, Ben. And your lack of answers.
Stop indulging in onanism and solitary vice, rabbi will be pretty cross with you!
Felling the heat!!!!!!! Did you write all by yourself or did someone help you with it?
Addressing this to Craig, are you? Or are you just content to drag his blog down and play on the pathetic tribalism of half of its inhabitants?
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Technicolour
Whats the matter cry baby can’t take the heat? I’ve yet to see you post a meaningful comment, I’ve commented on everything today from Scottish independence to the Queen and murder in Palestine, scroll back and check cry baby.
“(never seen you ever pull Jemand the deviant, villager, canspec…. et al”
An absolute lie! Superb!
“is another Palestinian genocide denier”
An astonishing, unmitigated lie! Is that the best you can do, you holocaust-denying horror?
“Another Jeebus. Can we have more poster-children for redemptive self-awareness?” – standard blather from the person happy to hurl repulsive insults a few comments earlier. But that was how you started here, wasn’t it, ‘Ben’.
Republicofperspiringdreams, Ben (California Nazi), Fedup (The Old Lag):
You three are really feeling the heat, aren’t you.
Keep runnin’ !
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Habb.
We’ve not even warmed up yet.
“I’ve commented on everything today from Scottish independence to the Queen and murder in Palestine” – yes, and what a transparent ploy it is.
“We’ve not even warmed up yet”
Don’t forget the steroids!
If Scotland does get rid of the Hanoverian/Windsor usurpers, why should it opt to beoome a republic, rather than to restore the legitimate British monarchs, the Bavarian Wittelsbachs, heirs to the Scottish House of Stuart?
As GK Chesterton said, the statement “my country right or wrong” makes as much sense as “my mother drunk or sober”. If your mother gets drunk and starts killing people you have a duty to her to try to stop her, and other people have a right to expect you to do your duty.
Of course silly, why do you ask? You racist claifrony haze and stuff and things!
Come on Ben do you really think these specimens are up for debate?
Just read the utter unconscious drivel they have plastered around the place, inclusive of their right to settle this blog because they were here in 190donkey.
They have nothing to say other than regurgitation the main stream narrative albeit in a more nuanced fashion.
None of the oh so concerned ever gave a toss about the millions of the Germans who perished in the post war Germany in the open air concentration camps. As is evident in their infantile world view on parade and their point refusal to believe others have transcended beyond the good cop bad cop WWII fairytale and fantasise.
“I’ve commented on everything today from Scottish independence to the Queen and murder in Palestine” – yes, and what a transparent ploy it is.
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The only thing transparent, is your infantile crying to Craig on this blog, somehow you feel as though you are on the side of righteousness, what ever gave you that idea I’ll never know.
Now reach for the Andrex and wipe away those tears, its a tough world out there.
Somewhat ahead of the UK media, the Tony Blair alarm rang today:
http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2395540&language=en
If Gaza wasn’t doomed before, it is now.
The Special Envoy of the international Quartet on the Middle East, Tony Blair, started on Sunday a day-long visit to Egypt to discuss regional issues namely prospects of establishing viable peace in the troubled Middle east.
I guess we can all agree the prospects are nonexistent? Discussion over. Bye, Tony.
We have your word for it!!!!
Where and when if your would care to enlighten us all?
What a pathetic line, so piss poor and not worth a rep…….
“Do you think Americans are complicit in USdotgov offshore activity? Does large public support for Israel put Americans, and Israeli citizens in the Zionist camp?”
You’re completely losing me Ben. I’ve tried hard to try and understand what it is you’re trying to say but it isn’t making any sense.
“Come on Ben do you really think these specimens are up for debate?”
Well, I was unaware that the Holocaust could be denied until I was accused of forming that rank and file.
I’ve been waiting for someone to question my numbers, as though only Jews were victims. Having exclusive rights to Palestine after WWII was important, so six million became the number because that was the important part. More racist bigotry.
If Scotland does get rid of the Hanoverian/Windsor usurpers, why should it opt to beoome a republic, rather than to restore the legitimate British monarchs, the Bavarian Wittelsbachs, heirs to the Scottish House of Stuart?
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Lysias
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Good point, but I hope Scots don’t elect a monarch, in the future, what kind of signal would that send out in a mainly socialist country, I and, I, suppose many others don’t want to cosset, an out of date regal system.
“You’re completely losing me Ben.”
Racism can’t be neatly tied in bows. You excoriate Zionism without noting the enabling of same by the population in both the US and Israel. I suggest we are all racist. It’s just a matter of degree. It’s part of our genetic structure, so attempts at purity are futile.
“Discrimination between ingroups and outgroups is a matter of favoritism towards an ingroup and the absence of equivalent favoritism towards an outgroup.[6] Outgroup derogation is the phenomena in which an outgroup is perceived as being threatening to the members of an ingroup.[7] This phenomenon often accompanies ingroup favoritism, as it requires one to have an affinity towards their ingroup. Some research suggests that outgroup derogation occurs when an outgroup is perceived as blocking or hindering the goals of an ingroup. It has also been argued that outgroup derogation is a natural consequence of the categorization process.[8”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroups_and_outgroups
Lysias
Can I put in a good word for the Plantagenets?
Behold I was sharpen in wickedness and in sin hath my mother conceived me.
But that is not a reason to give in to it.
The Special Envoy of the international Quartet on the Middle East, Tony Blair, started on Sunday a day-long visit to Egypt to discuss regional issues namely prospects of establishing viable peace in the troubled Middle east.
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So B-liar been sent in to broker peace, I can see it now, B-Liar “Yes Mr Netanyahu,I ‘ll keep them talking whilst you keep on killing them.” Netanyahu, ” Yes Tony you’re a good little Zionist puppet.”
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AS if sending Blair to broker peace between Palestine and Israel, will make a difference, its just for show.