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.
Mary
“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.”
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Well, David Cameron – unlike you – probably loves his country and is happy to commemorate the part it played in the victory over fascism (the real sort, not the imaginary sort you and your friends on here are always banging on about).
You don’t deserve the freedom so many of your countrymen died to preserve, you evil old crone.
“Good to see you’ve regained confidence in the BBC.”
It isn’t that. It’s simply that I understand the dynamics involved.
In order to cover itself, the BBC places more accurate stories in the remotest areas of its output. They can then point to that as balance to the propaganda they spew in their peak time output.
HTH
Mary
“As far as I can see, the snake oil salesmen in the main parties are handing out daily inducements/bribes to the electorate.”
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I quite agree.
So what would you recommend to do on polling day, Mary?
Vote? For whom? Not vote? Burn yourself alive in the Mall as a protest? Keep bitching away on the internet from the comfort of your armchair?
Do advise us, O Great Thinker!
Herbie
““Good to see you’ve regained confidence in the BBC.”
It isn’t that. It’s simply that I understand the dynamics involved.”
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Of course you do, Herbie.
Thanks for that confirmation that one should put you in the “The illusion of being in a small, select group of people who are the only ones who can see the “truth”” category (my post of 15h36 refers).
And now just fuck off, Herbie.
Herbie at 4.01, couldn’t agree more. That’s the BBC all over. I very rarely watch it. People are so propagated by the dung MSM spreads they can’t tell the difference between a good manicure and a good manuring. They’re full of it.
“The illusion of being in a small, select group of people who are the only ones who can see the “truth”
You have to seek out the truth, habby.
It doesn’t simply arrive on a plate, with your tea, and the six o clock news, as you insist.
An insistance, I might add, that is very much at odds with your championing of various Oxbridge colleges.
I mean, what’s the point going to university when the truth’s all there for you on the telly.
It’s these continual contradictions that show you for the fraud you are.
Noddy being a prime example of a good manuring. 🙂
“Well, David Cameron – unlike you – probably loves his country”
So much so indeed that himself and his chums want it all for themselves.
Every last little public bit of it.
“There is nobody who better represents Scottish Labour’s loss of its soul than Alexander. If Mhairi beats him I shall be extremely happy.”
You are not alone in that, Craig. I may sell a kidney beforehand to buy some decent malt.
@ Original Trolls and Useful idiots
Oh, you’re all doing a wonderful job in either not answering some fairly simple questions or just diverting.
It’s exchanges like the above which show you up for what you are – empty vessels.
LOL
Mr Goss
“That’s the BBC all over. I very rarely watch it.”
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Yes, we know all that, you keep telling us.
You’re more of a Russia Today man, I know.
Herbie
“You have to seek out the truth, habby.
It doesn’t simply arrive on a plate, with your tea, and the six o clock news, as you insist.”
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Well, I’d probably have more confidence in the BBC, which can be held to account, than in the obscure yet tendentious websites which you and your peers appear so attached to.
Not to mention Russia Today or PressTV.
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Chris Spivey, anyone? 🙂
“The anti-scottish rhetoric appears to have upped a gear.”
Anti-SNP, not anti Scottish, the SNP are not Scotland, they just think they are.
Newspapers criticise all the political parties, that’s what newspapers are for, Nationalists are the only ones seem to take it personally.
Rupert Murdoch,took to social media yesterday and right away admitted that Scottish independence was “inevitable.”
Murdoch also predicted that David Cameron would be ousted,he also added that who could deny the Scots,the right of self determination.
The Newscorp boss also made it clear,his dislike of Ed Miliband.
“Well, I’d probably have more confidence in the BBC, which can be held to account, than in the obscure yet tendentious websites which you and your peers appear so attached to.”
“Not to mention Russia Today or PressTV.”
“Chris Spivey, anyone?”
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Stopfake anyone?
Fake indeed.
‘Rupert Murdoch,took to social media yesterday and right away admitted that Scottish independence was “inevitable.”’
He supported the Iraq war as well and look how that turned out.
“Newspapers criticise all the political parties, that’s what newspapers are for, Nationalists are the only ones seem to take it personally.”
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You obviously weren’t paying attention during the Scottish referendum,when not one newspaper supported independence,and every national newspaper carried Better Togethers scaremongsring stories as fact.
Now you’re proclaiming the impartiality of the national press,several months later,remarkable.
If you honestly think that the press are only trying to discredit the SNP you’re more naive than I thought.
Herbie, NATO hasn’t been performing military expansionism in the countries bordering Russia; those countries applied to join NATO as protection from Russia, which does have a history of military expansionism and appears to be doing so again.
US Neocons clearly had foreknowledge of the overthrow in Ukraine and interfered with political appointments. I have spoken in objection to this already, as you should remember. The Neocons and NATO are not the same thing, though my opinion is that the US, the UK and thus the Neocons have too much influence within NATO, and for the same reason within the UNSC.
NATO, though more often NATO countries, have fought aggressive wars in the Middle East; I object to this, but it does not invalidate NATO’s defensive role, which was its original purpose, as regards Russia.
These are my honest personal opinions based upon my assessment of the evidence and the arguments. I am not a propagandist for any government. I have answered your questions but you are yet to answer mine.
“He supported the Iraq war as well and look how that turned out.”
A war started by the Labour Party, and look how they turned out.
“Well, I’d probably have more confidence in the BBC, which can be held to account”
Really.
What’s better if one is looking for truth, or at least an acquaintance with the arguments in a particular area.
Will it be, as habby often insists, the telly.
OR
Will it be, as habby often insists, an Oxbridge education with personal tutor.
Yes folks, habby insists both things are true, and will employ either or depending on which suits his current purpose.
One minute he’s all Common Man, and the next minute he’s elitist Oxbridge don.
These contradictions are a clear indication of fraudulent intent.
And an indication of elitist thinking.
Telly for the masses. Personal Oxbridge tutor for the elites.
A court in Russia has jailed 3 women for dancing in front of a WWII memorial,it was deemed disrespectful, 2 dancers were jailed for 10 days a 3rd for 15 days.
A bit over the top in my opinion.
Republicofscotland, you know I support Scottish independence and oppose the Westminster two-party power stitch-up. Don’t let this become an “us or them” issue for you because such an attitude will lead you into error that will weaken your arguments. Habbabkuk is easy to dislike but that doesn’t make him wrong about everything. There is indeed much fakery in media controlled by the Russian government; I was berated for knowing what combine harvesters don’t look like. Even if Stopfake is funded by dubious sources, it is still right in exposing such fakery.
Anybody read the “What really Happened” piece on bankers and their impact on world wars over 200yrs,namely the Rothschilds/Meyer Amstel pretty horrendous reading,almost everybody in a position of power that tried to change the system their system ended up dead!
Jim Murphy the branch manager of London Labour in Scotland,had to back track furiously yesterday, when he said Labour would abolish “zero-hour” contracts,after finding out,that Labour ran Glasgow City Council employed over 2000 staff on zero hour contracts.
Mr Murphy blurted out timidly that Labour would only abolish the exploitive ones.
Jim you plonker they’re all explotitive.
Is it any wonder the Scottish branch office of London Labour,is on the verge of a closing down sale.
Just who would buy those used dog-eared Labour politicians,even at 2 for the price of 1.
“my post of 15h36 refers”
A question if I may, Habbabkuk.
You’ve “translated” 3:36 pm (which is how this website records the time) into 15h36 — and you seem to do this constantly. I’m curious as to why you insist on the 24 hour clock, even when this blog records the time in a.m and p.m. Are you ex-military by any chance?
“Republicofscotland, you know I support Scottish independence and oppose the Westminster two-party power stitch-up. Don’t let this become an “us or them” issue for you because such an attitude will lead you into error that will weaken your arguments. Habbabkuk is easy to dislike but that doesn’t make him wrong about everything. There is indeed much fakery in media controlled by the Russian government; I was berated for knowing what combine harvesters don’t look like. Even if Stopfake is funded by dubious sources, it is still right in exposing such fakery.”
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Clarke.
To me Clarke, its not a “us and them scenario” I support the good people of the UK,its the Westminster system that’s the problem.
As for Habb,he’s trying to protect an outdated system,and thats fair enough.
As for Russia, I’m not pro-Putin,but I’m savvy enough to know that Ukraines problems aren’t all Moscow made.
“Herbie, NATO hasn’t been performing military expansionism in the countries bordering Russia; those countries applied to join NATO as protection from Russia, which does have a history of military expansionism and appears to be doing so again.”
This is pure nonsense.
NATO and the West generally are by far the more expansionist entities, historically and even today.
They’ve produced documents outlining their plans for full spectrum dominance.
And it’s not just Russia they’re looking to subdue. Are you ignorant of their activities against China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Libya, Iraq etc.
Even watching the telly you’d be aware that NATO and the West are expanding on many many fronts.
Russia, China etc aren’t doing this, obviously, but are instead busily building trade relations.
You’d have to be completely dishonest or insane to claim that Russia is the prime mover here, but that seems to be what you’re saying.
The big picture here is that NATO is attempting to stall the development of trading relations across Eurasia.
If you look at a map you’ll see that the countries they’ve destabilized form a curtain to the west of Russia, Iran and China to stop their land trade with western Europe.
This isn’t even in western Europe’s interest, never mind that of Russia, China, Iran.
I can see why Macky gets annoyed at you.
It seems you’ve looked at what are border skirmishes in Ukraine, concluded that this is an expansionist attack by Russia upon the West, all the while ignoring NATO as it rampages around the planet, imposing its decaying will upon the world.
If your thinking is that bizarre and disconnected then you’ve no business presenting yourself as some sort of independent arbiter.
This one can only be understood at a global level, I’m afraid. Your localism just won’t hack it.
Republicofscotland, something I find ironic is the similarity of arguments deployed. People such as Fred depict the supporters of Scottish independence as “Nazis and fascists”. The media controlled by the Russian government depict Ukrainians who want independence from Russia as “Nazis and fascists”.
Clarke.
It the age old trick of demonising your opposition,which makes it easier to further smear them,and they don’t come much nastier than Nazi’s and fascists.
The media and the press,then become a vehicle to convey the message,and if you broadcast that message enough,people then begin to believe it.
You only have to look at how Muslims have become demonised in recent years,to see the power the press and media have.
Dreoilin
You may.
Using the 24 hr clock just comes naturally to me. But is it so unusual? For example, I believe that those big electronic boards at railway stations (and even the accompanying loudspeaker announcements)use that system.
As always, I stand ready…etc, etc (you know the rest 🙂 ).