Speaking Date Availability 581

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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.

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  • Dreoilin

    “If you’d have been paying attention”

    I was

    “instead of b*ggering your old fraternal bunkbed buddy Kempe”

    I didn’t refer to Kempe in any way, shape or form. Maybe you’re the one who’s not paying attention.

    “you’d have noticed I commented on the previous page”

    I did. That’s why I said, “Ahh, I see he has been resurrected while I was typing, close to yourself as usual”.

    Dummkopf

  • Republicofscotland

    Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf has replaced Lady Butler-Sloss as head of the UK government inquiry into historical child abuse.

    Ms Woolf is a City lawyer and former president of the Law Society.

    She will head an inquiry panel including child abuse experts and at least one victim of abuse.

    Retired judge Baroness Butler-Sloss quit as head of the inquiry in July, saying she was “not the right person” for the job.

    She stood down after child abuse victims raised concerns that she is the sister of the late Sir Michael Havers, who was attorney-general in the 1980s when abuse is alleged to have happened.
    ——————
    Woolf in sheeps clothing to head the biggest Child Abuse cover-up ever seen

    In March 2014 Woolf served with infamous child abuser Leon Brittan on the
    International Financial Services forum.
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    Replacing one establishment figure with another, they must think we’re all as stupid as Fred.
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    http://google-law.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/woolf-in-sheeps-clothing-to-head.html

  • Dreoilin

    Doesn’t anyone think that if a person was going to use the handle “Republicofscotland” they’d spell it RepublicofScotland?

    Unless maybe he wasn’t even European.

  • Republicofscotland

    Doesn’t anyone think that if a person was going to use the handle “Republicofscotland” they’d spell it RepublicofScotland?

    Unless maybe he wasn’t even European.
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    Since when did YOU start thinking for yourself, steady on there fellow thinking for yourself is uncharted waters,for someone of your ilk, if I were you I’d crawl back under the duvet.

  • nevermind, Scotland will be free

    Nevermind I’m sure a sad wanna be Bullingdon boy like you will come to life when your masters Fred and Habb, make an appearance.

    You teaser, there are no masters here, some time ago it was more like a collective brain storming session, quiet often close to reality and important points to be made.
    Top commenters like Arbed and Ba’al intertwined and made for enertia, refreshing theories were formed, but we also have our zombies here, the issues that return from the dead, forever. and are hence used by some to wind us all up, hallo, Almillinerfactdenier, did all these men really die at Culloden?

    So who would not give you a pound into a collection box to pay for a peoples poll, poll 15.000 Independence voters, sorry, just trying to schmooze up to Al here, and see what has changed since the last poll?

  • Republicofscotland

    When told by a reporter that 2,000 people had died in the conflict, she replied:

    “Good. Good. When you declare war, you declare war. They started it. We now don’t count who’s dead. You’re dead, you deserve to be dead. Don’t you dare make me feel bad about that.”

    “They were told to get out. They didn’t get out. You don’t get out, you are an idiot. At least the ones that were killed were the ones with low IQs.”

    The late Joan Rivers.
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    By a strange coincidence, shortly before her death, she also claimed that President Obama is gay and Michelle Obama is a transvestite.

    It’s most likely the White House were less than amused by the comments and may well have had a hand in her unexpected and unusual demise.

  • Republicofscotland

    RoS I said this yesterday, being ironic of course.
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    That’s right Mary it has the look of one big cover up, as per usual.

  • Fedup

    They are a government department.

    Then it would say so Fed would it not?

    In the other thread your rebuttal about the Jewishness of Galloway assailant you had come up with; “then why he went to a catholic school?”

    With that sort of track record, best to be suspicious of the sites whose owners remain a secret, won’t you agree?.

    PS Fred it depends which school was closer to his home, a very difficult concept I should imagine.

    PPS what does the gubiment say today, that we all should think about Fred?

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    Unless maybe he wasn’t even European.

    Recollecting that not so long ago the “humorous” dreo admonished Mary for nitpicking and being a spell check gauleiter (as someone who has nothing to say). Today the lack of capital “S” in “Scotland” is an indication of the none European origin of the “speller”!! (not only spell checking but also professing and foreseeing events and persons, although this kind of prophecy is in the way of discounting the commenter, as a none European who has no business in passing opinions about the matters European ).

    I find the pack mentality here in recent times appalling.

    Which pack to be sure, to be sure is the appalling one?

    The pack of trolls inclusive of the self-inflicted, villager, jemand the deviant, ……… Of course not silly!

    It is the other pack! to be sure to be sure, top of the morning to all “Europeans” and those “none Europeans” go hang yourselves.

    Indeed there is a great deal to be learned, about; hypocrisy, underhandedness, ill tempered jibes, collusion with the trolls, and goal post moving around (this is a new game played with sheleighlies to beat upon the opponents and move the goal posts around.

  • Fedup

    Ben the low wage economic doctrine, that intends to compete with the China labour market has a slight a little trouble; there are no consumers left with any disposable income to buy diddly.

    The fact that even skilled construction workers are an scarcity just goes to prove the service economy; “would you want fires with that” is no skill set that can be relied upon.

    However the news this morning is; there are new hurdles for the jobless, ie a new “attitude test” is set in place, that lets the private Job centres staff to ask searching questions in a bid to find out about the “attitude of the applicant”.

  • Ben

    “Unless maybe he wasn’t even European.”

    A simple request to Craig for IP addresses should show the country of origin. But then, what would you beatch about? Plus, you have the bonus of high-fives for disingenuous rhetoric from your allies. What more do you need for your psychometrics?

  • Vronsky

    “I find the pack mentality here in recent times appalling.”

    There used to be a Dreolin here that I was half in love with with. Where did she go? Story of my effing awful life.

  • Ben

    ” ask searching questions in a bid to find out about the “attitude of the applicant”.”

    I’ve been noticing that for years, but it’s even worse now Fedup. The Seller’s mkt (employers) has the much worshipped cat-bird seat, and they can take any applicant, just to show numbers, and any job experience; any advanced degree, and balance a duplicate candidate with magic tricks, or self-humiliating antics performed with great enthusiasm, as the vector for choosing the best applicant.

    Bear-baiting is outlawed, but human-baiting is all the rage.

  • Tony M

    History has proven General Jack D Ripper correct, The Lancet endorsed a study and paper – in 2013 I think – that found fluoride to be a dangerous neurotoxin.

  • Ben

    “History has proven General Jack D Ripper correct”

    Funny you should mention him. i’ve just been reading fresh facts from the JFK assassination. I’ve always thought LeMay was a psychopath and certainly as meglomaniacal as McArthur.

    I also thought Ripper, instead of being a composite, was really a profile of LeMay. Psycho war criminal. Ripper was crazy as today’s anti-vaxers?

    Check out the latest on MMR vaccines and autism. Anti-vaxers, like Ripper, were right.

  • Ben

    Sorry, RoS. I can’t talk to you because I am a holocaust denier and a flat-earther. I can suspend my disbelief in my own racial bigotry no longer. You see, many have told me, thusly it must be true. Now, everyone repeat after me……

    Habba, Habba, Habba. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be free………

  • Republicofscotland

    Sorry, RoS. I can’t talk to you because I am a holocaust denier and a flat-earther. I can suspend my disbelief in my own racial bigotry no longer. You see, many have told me, thusly it must be true. Now, everyone repeat after me……
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    Hey Ben you say what you want to say, the day you kowtow to anyone in here, (except Craig as its his blog) is the day you stop commenting, keep an open mind and and make your own mind up.

  • Fedup

    I’ve always thought LeMay was a psychopath and certainly as meglomaniacal as McArthur.

    LeMay never got to fight a war as a general, despite spoiling for one. What was the movie called again? Rock Hudson I believe played the SAC pilot, portraying the life on the base of a family caught up in the LeMay nightmare vision of twenty four hour air cover and airborne bombers only a heart beat away from going into Russia to off load their cargo?

    Never mind the Fluoride (although a valid pointer), have you heard about today’s wild news?

    Telepathy confirmed scientifically. Which opens up a whole can of worms about MK Ultra MK planet wide.

  • Ben

    I don’t understand the fear of pork. I know it’s a religious dictum, but it is way behind our Times. My mother used to cook pork-chops until they were like beef jerky; dry and stringy. But the trichinosis was gone. Aren’t we counseled to cook all meat thoroughly now?

    I don’t care for backwardness, religious or otherwise.

  • Ben

    It’s funny how mere words can make others STFU. It’s a form of warfare I approve of. No blood spilled, except the psychic blood.

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