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.
Jihad Mary honks – “Compare and contrast the numerous pocket pols’ reaction to the twelve deaths in Paris to their reaction to these statistics, ie nil.”
She’s not even embarrassed by her hypocritical silence on the many, many, many incidents of Islamic violence. Could it be because she sees her enemy’s enemy as her friend?
Mark Golding at 6.53 pm. I wrote this on a different site where it would be understood by people other than the little ejits that troll the blogs with their racist-religionist innuendo.
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The attack on the French satirical offices of Charlie Hebdo has all the markings of a CIA false flag. In such circumstances Muslims are held accountable before the news is out. Journalists of any ilk are a threat to the CIA and the US. Many were targeted during the regime change NATO wars. My suspicion arises because:
1. No Muslim group has accepted responsibility.
2. To shout “The prophet has been avenged!” immediately takes the suspicion away from the CIA and that was the intention. These gunmen were professionals.
3. Yesterday François Hollande was trying to convince European leaders that sanctions should be lifted against Russia ahead of the convenient meeting today between David Cameron and Angela Merkel. (Now they have something else to consider).
4. MSM is full of shit. Outside of the weather forecast you can hardly believe a news item.
5. Muslims never get away. They end up in a shoot out with the police. The police must have known about this, to have let them get away.
Yes, it’s speculation. I could be wrong. But history shows that the truth often emerges long after the event and some poor sod, (Abdelbaset al Megrahi springs to mind), carries the can, while the spooks are allowed to continue their unaccountable assassinations.”
Habbabkuk – “For what it’s worth, I feel it is misplaced – and certainly ugly – to make political capital out of this in the above way.
It is mischievous nonsense to refer to “Islam collaborators” and “apologists”, as it would be to claim that the perpetrators enjoy the support of most of the Muslim community in France, or to talk about the Muslimisation of West Europe. Etc.”
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What political capital? You mean that which is made when people stand up and say “this has nothing to do with Islam”?
“Mischievous nonsense”? You are kidding, right? What “mischief” would you suggest I am up to?
And please explain how it is nonsense to suggest that people are collaborating with Islamists by acting as enthusiastic apologists by dissociating the actions of these Islamic terrorists from the tenets of Islam – which they can quote from the verse.
Also please explain how you know that the majority of muslims do not support this action or similar incidents and how that is even relevant when so many muslims are nominal and know very little about their own religion. They’re not all scholars, you know.
Habbabkuk; “I’m a very quick reader”
No, you are a time wasting fruad that more & more people here are realising, and so are rightly shunning you; there’s still a handful of slow learners who have to see the light, like Iain Orr, who is awaiting your response to a rather long post addressed to you on the jim-and-severin thread, more fool him !
Jemand; “Liberal retards, profoundly ignorant of the subject matter on which they comment ad nauseum”
Unlike yourself, self-taught Islam & anti-Muslim expert.
Why not everyone join Scotland? Rule from Edinburgh couldn’t be worse than rule from Westminster, could it?
John Goss – “Yes, it’s speculation. I could be wrong. But history shows that the truth often emerges long after the event and some poor sod, (Abdelbaset al Megrahi springs to mind), carries the can, while the spooks are allowed to continue their unaccountable assassinations.”
John, history has shown that indigenous people and their cultures were ruthlessy conquered by Islam across the world, a long time before the West made their own way to colonise distant lands. Let’s not pretend here that indigenous people just gave up their native ways on their own volition.
If it was a CIA false flag, it’s odd that they didn’t have a patsy ready to put the blame on.
Macky, I don’t purport to be an expert. I listen to and read the words of muslims which stand in stark contrast to the liberal propaganda from Islamophiles. And then I share what I have learnt with my adoring fans here and elsewhere.
Mr Nasty from Australia is in full insulting flow. Perhaps he’s angry that Australia is burning again and that the immigrants escaping the USUKIsNATO wars continue to make their way to Australia’s shores.
The other reason the CIA would value this kind of distraction in Paris is because the few decent journalists in MSM, like Jon Snow, are calling for us to end the “special relationship” with the Yanks.
http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/time-britain-stock-war/24897
Yeay for those lovely anti-Muslim people. They’re only trying to save the rest of you, you know – the threats and abuse are just dressing.
No idea if Paris was false flag,but what is obvious from the footage and stills is the way in which the men carry their weapons.It shows military training.These terrorists were also trained soldiers.
Evidence in Paris attack suggests gunmen had combat experience.
Of course:
Tariq Ramadan (official)
6 hrs · Edited ·
Charlie Hebdo : NON! NON! NON!
Contrairement à ce qu’ont apparemment dit les assassins-criminels dans l’attentat des bureaux de Charlie Hebdo, ce n’est pas le Prophète qui a été vengé, c’est notre religion, nos valeurs et nos principes islamiques qui ont été trahis et souillés.
Une condamnation absolue et une colère profonde (saine et mille fois justifiée) contre cette horreur!!!
Qu’il me soit permis d’exprimer ici ma profonde sympathie et mes sincères condoléances aux familles des victimes.
Craig – go for it!
I regularly visit Berwick and cruise along the the river border and the North Sea – a a beautiful area with much interesting history. It is obvious (to me at least!) that the border should be the river Tweed (the border deviates northwards into Scotland near Norham).
Berwick town wasn’t included in Northumberland for parliamentary purposes until 1885 – not very long ago so it’s well worth trying for a reversal 😉
I like this quote:
“Craig Murray deserves to be an independent MP. He is terrible as a team player, which is no doubt why Caron Lindsay (after slagging off the SNP) admits that she would similarly have “severe concerns about him as a candidate for us”. But he speaks out powerfully against injustice when others fall silent. What he gets right is far more important than what he gets wrong. Except of course to a political party, which perforce must worry more about headlines, gaffes and banana skins than it bothers its collective head about “trivialities” like torture and the security state.
If politics actually worked, then the SNP, Lib Dems and Greens would all agree to give Craig Murray a clear run as an Independent. Not going to happen, though, is it?”
http://www.libdemvoice.org/craig-murray-rejected-by-snp-as-parliamentary-candidate-for-saying-he-would-defy-whip-to-vote-against-bedroom-tax-43942.html
PS Five percent in Blackburn, from a rank outsider, with no infrastructure, a hastily cobbled together team and only months to campaign, versus the years of the various incumbents, was a triumph, not only in terms of statistics, but from the voters who were liberated from pointless hate, or understandable apathy, as a result. And the place deserved that option.
actually, for ‘apathy’ read ‘despair’
“Why not everyone join Scotland? Rule from Edinburgh couldn’t be worse than rule from Westminster, could it?”
Westminster are only blood suckers, they don’t take the organs as well.
Jemand; “Macky, I don’t purport to be an expert”
Obviously expert enough to castigate others as “Liberal retards” as “profoundly ignorant of the subject matter”
“Yeay for those lovely anti-Muslim people. They’re only trying to save the rest of you, you know – the threats and abuse are just dressing.”
Utterly incomprehensible mush from a mush headed libturd apologist for the world’s most violent cult. Doesn’t even have a single muslim friend (genuine, not acquaintance) yet stands up as its spokesperson. In any other culture, she would be hanged as a traitor.
Ah, and carry on proving your loving (I’m just trying to save the world from extremists!) credentials, Jemand. It’s really working.
(blows little kiss)
Incidentally, the world’s most violent death cult – has anyone done the figures? Do Blair and Bush and Obama count as a cult? Does Stalin? Or Mao?
Craig
What is it about East Coast seaside towns you love/hate in equal proportions? Norwich, Sittingbourne and now Berwick. Do you associate remoteness with independence? The Tory HQ soon bussed in their candidate from central office in Norwich. The Mayor of London dreamed up schemes for London airport in Kent. And the SNP top brass soon dismissed your hopes and aspirations.
You asked for discouragement. Don’t take my advice. Try pissing in the East Coast wind.
Craig, you said you’re considering standing as an Independent candidate in Berwick-Upon-Tweed (BUT).
BUT nominations don’t close for a couple of months.
Why not wait until you are pressured by someone like Evan Davis to announce your candidature?
Nice bit of publicity, shoe-in for the seat, you know it makes sense etc.
Cheers,
Patrick
Thank-you Jemand, the venom in your response is Pavlovian, a behavior modification from forced conditioning to which your rampant objectivity is a ‘sitting duck’ that will swallow anything the PSYOPS guys throw at you.
By way of deception thou shalt do war – the modus vivendi of an entire race.
Craig, What will you say to those in Berwick who feel the 55% were right? And will you call them evil or idiots too? You may need an answer to this because it is likely to be a thorn in your side for a while.
I campaigned for Craig Murray in the election in 2005, his vote was respectable but it should not be forgotten that almost one in three voters was of Muslim heritage, Craigs intervention was very much to do with Iraq and human rights generally. Straw had this to say at that election..Tony was impregnable in his Sedgefield redoubt. I was not. With nearly one in three voters of Muslim Asian heritage, and plenty of the white electors not keen on Iraq either, I was an obvious target. Every one of the six other candidates was anti-war.
Activists piled into the constituency and set about a campaign of psychological, religious and sometimes physical intimidation. Their message was that no proper Muslim could possibly vote for the infidel Straw. I was almost a goner.
But my loyal supporters were undeterred. Virtually none of them had supported my position on Iraq, but I think they thought: ‘Jack might be a bastard, but he’s our bastard.’http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208579/My-battle-lift-veil-Jack-Straw-tells-willing-confront-modern-Britains-great-taboos.html
Fascinating piece to re-read – especially
“I felt like making some sharp comment in equally pejorative terms about his ‘Jewish backers’, and about not judging me by his standards. But I said nothing. Gradually, Tony and I came to a different place over Israel. He often seemed too willing to give Israel the benefit of the doubt, even when nothing was in doubt.
His oft-repeated mantra was that Israel was a democracy. Because of that, he was prepared to lean over backwards to take its side, even when it used excessive force against its neighbours.”
The ‘campaign of psychological, religious and sometime physical intimidation’ wasn’t Craig’s.