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.
John Goss 12.10 Your link shows the development of the Great Man-Made River project.
Of course Gaddaffi was correct. One of the first things Nato did when they attacked Libya was to bomb the Brega pipe factory.
If Nato’s purpose in attacking Libya was really to protect it’s citizens, they would have done everything possible to protect the water supply. By their deeds shall ye know them.
Nadira is away for a week and am functioning as a single parent to a 5 year old for last few days. Absolutely knackered. How on earth do people manage? Full of admiration for them.
No fascists in Ukraine, eh.
Even the BBC manages to be a little less complacent than Evgueni’s account:
“Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict”
“But Ukrainian officials and many in the media err to the other extreme. They claim that Ukrainian politics are completely fascist-free. This, too, is plain wrong.”
“And although Ukraine is emphatically not run by fascists, far-right extremists seem to be making inroads by other means, as in the country’s police department.
Ukraine’s public is grossly under-informed about this. The question is, why doesn’t anyone want to tell them?”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30414955
Somebody somewhere sometime said something like :
“Doing the housework while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the pavement before it stops snowing.
Craig, good to hear from you. Various previous girlfriends of mine were single mums and yes, caring for youngsters is very demanding and requires sustained attention. Best wishes with it!
Thank you Node. We all know what happened when success was achieved. That documentary, aimed at discrediting Gaddafi’s ambitions for his people, backfired because ten years later, when the ambitions were bearing fruit, the Zionist/Neocons including Labour and Tory voted for this war against an innocent regime which was simply trying to fulfil a socialist dream. That’s when the rich bastards get the military into gear. “Theirs not to reason why . . .”
The bankers turned Libya into the wasteland it has become because otherwise socialism might seem a possibility to other countries, who might also manage quite well without a Rothschild Bank. That is why North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Russia (which is ditching dollar mentality like crazy) are targets. As Ba’al has just pointed out the USA is a spent force. All we can expect from it and its NATO allies is war, war, war. Wake up world. Or we’ll all be living in the nightmare that is the Middle East.
Anybody remember when the US got Saddam to occupy Kuwait to the chagrin of the Saudis. Now they’ve got the Saudis bombing Yemen. Who will be next? The United States should not have a single friend in the world. The UK will always be its sycophantic ally. How daft are we?
Republic of Scotland, 25/4/15 6:44pm
“I do hope wee Dougie suffers a Portillo Moment.”
I was intrigued by this comment. As I read it, Mr Alexander would need to be busy in a Chiswick cottage with someone who had a bin bag over his head and an orange stuffed in his mouth?
Macky, I asked YOU what YOU meant when you accused me of being Russophobic, not Neil Clark’s opinion. You made this accusation in public; you should explain what you meant plainly, not refer to some lengthy propaganda piece in RT.
John Goss, you have accused me of prejudice and bigotry. Please explain what you meant.
Herbie,
Straw man; Evgueni did not make that claim and indeed acknowledged the right-wing elements thus:
Why did you misrepresent Evgueni’s statements?
“I kept my eyes peeled for the famous “Ukrainian nazis” but was disappointed – there were none to be seen, not even a solitary member of Right Sector.”
“I am curious how the assorted sofa vigilantes on here will explain just how I and my friends and family missed the obvious signs of fascism and oppression, so clearly visible from 2,000 miles away”
So, Clark. Why did you misrepresent Evgueni’s statements?
Even the BBC article deals with para 2 above.
Para 1 is just Evgueni bluffing his way.
Anyway, anyone who writes garbage like this:
“My overall impression was that democracy is alive and well in Ukraine”
is at very best being wilfully blind.
Now the Indian-Australian plate is pushing ever harder under the Asian one, raising Mount Everest, and causing all those earthquakes around Katmandu.
But it’s already too late for Uncle Sam to stop playing God.
“I was intrigued by this comment. As I read it, Mr Alexander would need to be busy in a Chiswick cottage with someone who had a bin bag over his head and an orange stuffed in his mouth?”
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Rob.
Maybe not an orange,possibly something smaller,how else would he be able to shout out his “safe word.”
Meanwhile several national newspapers carried the comment “Worst crisis since the abdication”
In reference to the SNP having a possible 50 MPs at Westminster,what happened to WWII or the illegal war in Iraq,wasn’t there some form of crisis surrounding them?
The anti-scottish rhetoric appears to have upped a gear.
I always knew David Cameron was a fake and a fraud,his spin doctors and speech writers do their best to dupe us, but to avail.
In a recent speech Cameron couldn’t even recall his favourite football team,and blurted out West Ham,whilst previously he admitted to being a Aston Villa fan.
Oh how the Bullingdon Tory boy, tries but fails miserably to appear more approachable, to the common man.
Herbie, neither of Evgueni’s statement that you quote amount to “no fascists in Ukraine” as you imputed, merely that Evgueni didn’t see any. Do you dispute Evgueni’s assertion that electoral support for Svoboda has fallen below 5%?
Herbie, your comments seem less than honest. Are you propagandising as cover for military expansionism by the Russian government?
The DEC appeal for the Nepal earthquake.
http://www.dec.org.uk/appeals/nepal-earthquake-appeal
Multi charity.
Broadcast tonight on several channels.
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A good use for drones for a change.
Drone Footage Reveals Extent Of Nepal Damage
Survivors in Nepal’s capital are living in the open, while fears are mounting for residents of uncontacted outlying villages.
http://news.sky.com/story/1473048/drone-footage-reveals-extent-of-nepal-damage
The Sun newspaper in England on Saturday ran a”expose” on Nicola Sturgeon with the strapline “The ruthless woman who would break up the UK.”
In a deadly serious look at the FM of Scotland, the paper bizarrely pointed out how ruthless Sturgeon was, when as a child she cut the hair of her sisters Barbie doll.
What a sad and rather pathetic attempt to try and demonise the FM of Scotland.
Herbie
““My overall impression was that democracy is alive and well in Ukraine”
is at very best being wilfully blind.”
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Well, at least Evguénu was there and could get a first hand impression of the situation, which is more thzan can be sa
The amounts raised in past appeals vary wildly.
http://www.dec.org.uk/appeals
Herbie
““My overall impression was that democracy is alive and well in Ukraine”
is at very best being wilfully blind.”
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Well, at least Evguéni was there and could get a first hand impression of the situation, which is more than can be said about you, sitting in front of your PC and getting it off from reading pro-rebel Russian websites.
I don’t believe people like you get paid for posting the sort of garbage you do (who would be stupid enough to waste their money?), so what on earth motivates you?
Hate of your country and/or the West? The illusion of being in a small, select group of people who are the only ones who can see the “truth”? A desire to contradict for the sake of it?
I’m genuinely puzzled.
According to a recent report,when, not if Scotland becomes independent Trident and the subs,will be moved to Gibraltar.
Apparently a senior military source,said that Gibraltar was a suitable staging post for the WMD’s, and the waters were deep enough for the subs.
However the claim has been officially denied by the MoD, mind you deniability is thd MoD’s motto.
“Semper Negare”……….always deny.
“I don’t believe people like you get paid for posting the sort of garbage you do (who would be stupid enough to waste their money?), so what on earth motivates you?”
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I was thinking the very same thing about you.
Republicofscotland
“In a deadly serious look at the FM of Scotland, the paper bizarrely pointed out how ruthless Sturgeon was, when as a child she cut the hair of her sisters Barbie doll.”
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Well, it does seem a rather strange thing for a child to do, doesn’t it.
You belong – I believe – to the small but select group on here which believes that all politicians are psychopaths.
Would you put La Sturgeon – who is a politician, if I’m not mistaken – into that category and what do you think might have motivated her to cut off the doll’s hair?
“John Goss, you have accused me of prejudice and bigotry. Please explain what you meant.”
I don’t think you realise you are doing it. You did it in the very post from which you first asked me to explain. I thought if you can’t see it would you be able to see it if it was explained to you.
Evgueni went to Kiev knowing that his friends would be of the same persuasion by and large from contact by email I think he said. They confirmed his preconceived ideas that Russia was responsible for the war on the pro-Russian separatists even though they live hundreds of miles from the area based on the hearsay of one or two people who went the opposite way from the mass exodus. This entertaining piece by Evgueni, especially about the football fans gone mad, and an apathetic police force, flies in the face of hardcore evidence which has been presented to you, and ignored by you, ad nauseum. You prefer a verbal undocumented account by your friend.
I’ve read the few comments Evgueni makes and when he is not dealing in ad hominems makes valid comments. He is obviously intelligent but so are many other people who can also be wrong. Regardless of the fact that Evgueni was only giving a hearsay report and Macky and I have provided you with well-sourced material that can be checked, you prefer Evgueni’s account of “mob dynamics out of control” which it most certainly was not. What it was was a carefully planned operation in which the police were instructed to stand back while the fascists bussed-in for the event, under instructions of the acting-coup President Alexander Turchinov and Ukrainian-Israeli oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskiy. Young women draped in yellow and blue flags are seen on video making the Molotov cocktails. There is only one story and it is not Evgueni’s hearsay. And in continuing to look for an alternative against the hard-facts, however much you like to support your friends, is why I consider you to be prejudiced on this issue. Here it is again.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b43_1400340895#F3xHuRQ9GTU54gjW.99
“Herbie, neither of Evgueni’s statement that you quote amount to “no fascists in Ukraine” as you imputed, merely that Evgueni didn’t see any”
But his is a pointed observation, surely. He’s not saying merely that he didn’t happen to come across any fascists, is he.
What’s the point in saying something as banal as that. I mean, I’m sure there are plenty of things he didn’t see on his visit, but he only tells us he didn’t see any fascists.
What’s it supposed to mean?
When he says:
“I am curious how the assorted sofa vigilantes on here will explain just how I and my friends and family missed the obvious signs of fascism and oppression, so clearly visible from 2,000 miles away”
I responded with a BBC article which explains precisely why these things aren’t obvious.
They simply aren’t reported.
People in such zones of conflict rarely understand the full strategic impact of the events taking place around them. That’s common throughout the world.
Even here.
The BBC’s answer is that they’re not reported. There are other fuller and better answers but that’s about as complex as most people can manage. So, we’ll run with that for arguments sake.
And when Evgueni says:
“My overall impression was that democracy is alive and well in Ukraine”
you’d at least have to conclude that Evgueni isn’t the most observant of chappies.
Clark, your comments seem less than honest. Are you propagandising as cover for military expansionism by NATO?
“Well, it does seem a rather strange thing for a child to do, doesn’t it.”
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You obviously have no children.
“Semper negare”, eh?
Oh how the internet Rebel boy, tries but fails miserably to appear more cultured, to the common man.
RoS
Possibly yes, possibly not, but anyway, how about answering the question? 🙂
“Well, at least Evguéni was there and could get a first hand impression of the situation”
Really.
The BBC says that the fascist reality on the ground goes largely unreported:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30414955
RoS
“Apparently a senior military source,said that Gibraltar was a suitable staging post for the WMD’s, and the waters were deep enough for the subs.”
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You should be the last one on here to be talking about deep waters, RoS.
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BTW – early to be off from work, isn’t it? Or don’t you work?
Sky have an ex SPAD to BLiar on dissing Nicola for not standing for a HoC seat. Plus Harry Cole c/o Guido Fawkes who wishes to see more fire in Cameron’s belly. LOL
See how Murphy, the SPAD, has risen up through the ranks to chair ‘Bell Pottinger Geopolitical’. There’s a coverall title.
https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/darren-murphy/7/888/999
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Cole_(journalist)
As far as I can see, the snake oil salesmen in the main parties are handing out daily inducements/bribes to the electorate.
Will Cameron make political capital out of the imminent royal birth? If elected, will he also be crowing on May 8th, the 70th anniversary of VE Day.
Herbie
Good to see you’ve regained confidence in the BBC.
I’d always put you down as a fully signed-up member of the ” BBC is a tool of MI5/Mossad/the Establisment/the Zionists/the capitalist bloodsuckers club.