Given that the absolute maximum share of the UK vote Labour might conceivably get is 36%, it is extraordinarily arrogant for Miliband to insist on the right to impose his full manifesto. Tactically, of course, he is trying to panic Scottish voters into supporting Labour lest they lose the chance to have him as PM. I can see no reason why this would suddenly become more successful than it has been so far.
Unionists have plainly twigged that next time we have a referendum, they will lose, even if it was next week. The near hysterical focus of unionists on not allowing another referendum, almost to the exclusion of all other argument, is very heartening. Independence is not only inevitable, it will be with us even sooner than the unionists fear.
A prize pratzel ends up in £300k job in NY with a CIA front charity chaired by kissinger (Peace Corps became passe), after almost becaming labour leader?! Our politics is no longer about raising the bar, but more about getting invited to the bar mitzvah, whilst all along us cattle are kept blissfully unaware with tales of halal sharia law by the harps!
Support for the Toksvig woman…
http://www.newsofrwanda.com/featured1/27515/inspired-by-rwanda-mrs-blair-tells-men-stop-beating-wives/
Cherie Blair, the wife to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has told men to stop beating their wives, saying the practice drags family progress.
“It’s time for good men to tell other men who beat their wives and drink the family money that it’s no longer acceptable.”
She made the remarks in U.S. during the annual high level global conference on Investments and Developing Markets held at Milken Institute in Los Angeles, California.
In other news, Pope urged to defecate in woods, bears convert to Catholicism.
Abe Rene
Do not worry. The Tories are going to win the UK election, if anybody in the SNP hierarchy was dreaming of Imperial power it will prove a brief illusion, and independence is coming soon.
“independence is coming soon.”
The Curse of Murray* looms over the political landscape once again. Expect the opposite.
*affiliated with the Craig Murray election-time “Kiss of Death”.
It is a typically astute move from Miliband. It serves three purposes: reminding Scottish voters that a vote for the SNP might ‘let the Tories in’; shoring up his English vote; and as a bargaining position for any future deal.
As to the referendum, paradoxically, the more independence Holyrood has, the less reason there may be to vote for ‘independence’. I also believe that the key currency question has not been resolved, and that any independence campaign would again hit the reality that an independent Scotland would either have to set up its own currency or join the euro. Perhaps Scottish opinion will one day head that way but I don’t see it at the moment.
Miliband is speaking to the Labour faithful in Cardiff. He will be going to Scotland later.
A pumped up Cameron (what’s he on btw?) has a very large audience of Asda wage slaves (probably on zero hours contracts) in a supermarket in the Leeds Central constituency plus the customers. First planted question .. ‘What is your worst fear? Miliband…..?’
Q. How do the Cons get employers to stage these staged pieces in sheds, factories and workplaces, thus cutting productivity and affecting profits?
A. ‘David Cameron ‘delighted’ with Asda plans to create 12,000 new jobs
Prime minister says five-year expansion plan, announced by Walmart CEO in London store, will bring financial security
7 April 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron meets Tara Leniston and her son Luca at Asda in Clapham, south London, where he discussed the 12,000 new jobs Asda will create over five years. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
David Cameron said on Monday that he was delighted by Asda’s plans to create 12,000 new jobs over the next five years.
The prime minister, who was visiting one of supermarket chain’s stores in south London, said the move would “give people financial security for the future”.
Doug McMillon, president and chief executive of its US owner, Walmart, said Asda was “creating more new jobs and bringing real value to more customers in the UK”.’
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http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/07/asda-jobs-walmart-david-cameron
You’ve changed avatars Anon1. New I/P address perhaps?
New email account.
A very happy 308th birthday to Great Britain, many happy returns.
I see Nicola has been seeing what food banks and homeless people look like from the air in her new austeritymobile.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/politics/westminster/general-election-2015/566183/nicola-sturgeon-takes-helicopter-tour-around-scotland-woo-voters/
Is that the world’s sixth highest paid politician you’re referring to there, Fred?
“Is that the world’s sixth highest paid politician you’re referring to there, Fred?”
So they say.
Happy May Day everybody! Remember when as children we used to dance round the maypole not really understanding that this was a major celebration of workers’ holiday?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day
Anon1
The curse of Murray doesn’t seem to be working on the SNP. And no, I didn’t jump on the bandwagon. I joined in 2011.
Mary (10h32)
You didn’t sound very pleased about the ASDA announcement that it will create 12000 new jobs over the next 5 years.
But I may have misread you.
Are you pleased that these new jobs will be created or would you rather that they were not?
Craig, “Do not worry. The Tories are going to win the UK election..”
Cameron’s greatest strength is that most people in the UK are too old to remember undiluted Tory rule and too stupid to care about Cameron’s involvement in the destruction of Libya and Syria. In other words they are too selfish to care about any evil which does not personally affect them.
I myself am sitting on the IDF gravy train for those who create their own zero hours, zero pay jobs, while the vulnerable are thrown out of the benefit system. But I was in the second category when I had three young children to support under Mrs Thatcher.
Let no-one ever forget that it was the Liberals who allowed the rabidity of Ian ToryDogma Smith to return to power, thus cancelling all Clegg’s rhetoric about softening Tory savagery.
Where I live the Muslim community will vote back war criminal Liam Byrne the sitting new Labour MP, regardless of his association with neo-con wars against Muslims, in Iraq and Afghanistan. The idea of him getting back into the cockpit of the UK war machine again fills me with pity for the misguided, self-interested idiots who vote for him.
The reality is more likely to be an alliance between Tories and UKIP. If that happens it will be partly the fault of the immigrant communities who have got up the noses of the indigenous inner city populations with their arrogance and inverted racism against the British people and support for USUKIS destruction of the Middle East Muslims and I don’t mean the hard-working Poles, Romanians and Bulgarians.
Make no mistake, in the Muslim community it is the imams who guide the ordinary Muslims to this appalling political confederacy of self-interest for their own community. Just as in the UK in general the people are guided by their politicians to admire UK self-interest and neo-colonial ambitions over conscience and morality.
I am baffled as to how the former residents of British colonies square their consciences with UK neo-colonialism now that they live in the UK themselves. Their sons fight the Muslims of Syria while their babies are weaned on UK free milk, and their sons and daughters drink the golden calf of UK secularism. ‘Very strange is their idea of Faith, if indeed they have such a thing.’
Re: May Day
It is my birthday today. I have always been irrationally pleased that my birthday falls on International Labour Day. Additionally, during my childhood, it meant that I always got a holiday on my birthday, which I thought was great.
I think it was Thatcher who took that away from me and moved it to the first Monday in May! Unforgivable. I’m not quite sure about that though. Might have been Callaghan.
http://socialistreview.org.uk/263/may-day-festival-workers
Kind regards,
John
Craig
Anon1 and Habbabkuk jumped on the bandwagon of Janner evading justice for raping children. I will never let them forget their support for him. They are back again trolling here as if they had not exposed themselves as apologists for establishment figures who bugger young children.
Nonce1 and BabyBugger obviously agree with you that nothing in UK politics is ever going to change.
Spencer-Davis
“Additionally, during my childhood, it meant that I always got a holiday on my birthday, which I thought was great.”
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I was not aware that 1 May was ever a public holiday in the UK.
When was that?
“The curse of Murray doesn’t seem to be working on the SNP.”
They were wise not to admit you. Had they done so then the airwaves would be filled with you calling unionists indescribably thick, and the Curse would have worked its deadly spell. A fortunate escape for the SNP. This time.
“Is that the world’s sixth highest paid politician you’re referring to there, Fred?”
So they say.
That’s Xavier Bettel. (Who he? Google something yourself for a change) Or, just maybe, “they” -unattributed as usual – are wrong.
The very rich Nazis are coming for you, Fred. Be very afraid…
Giyane
This is simply untrue. Both myself and Habbabkuk said that the man should stand trial and face justice if what is alleged against him is true. My point was that the obsession of some here with this particular alleged paeodphile is motivated entirely by him being a Jew and a supporter of Israel. There is absolutely no difference between you and those on the right who obsess about Muslim paedophiles. You are both interested in scoring political points rather than any concern for the victims.
Nonceybabe
Lie lie lie, until you convince them you are telling the truth.
That’s not at all what you said. Vermin.
Since the subject was raised, the IPCC are now to investigate the police handling of the Janner affair.
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Police-investigated-Greville-Janner-child-abuse/story-26419470-detail/story.html
Nonce1
BabyBugger:
“As to Lord Carlile’s lack of observation powers, you are being rather harsh and not a little silly. This is because you imply – I read your words – that Carlile should have known what was going in because “they were both MPs, both QCs, both members of Friends of Israel, both patrons of UK lawyers for Israel. They appear still to both be patrons of the Friends of Israel Educational Foundation. They were regulars on the same parliamentary committees dealing with legal affairs. They were both to leave the Commons at the same time and both to join the Lords only slightly apart.”.
I suggest that this argument is weak. It would only have validity if you were to assume that Lord Janner did some of his alleged buggering in Lord Carlile’s presence when they were prepareing a brief together in chambers .”
An undisguised attempt to exonerate Janner. Seeing that your trollmate had lost the plot you waded in with:
“Giyane
Buggery of young boys is rife throughout the Muslim world. It is barely ever prosecuted. But like most Muslims you are far more concerned with what’s happening in Israel”.
A totally unsubstantiated claim, which I totally refute. I dare say Winston Churchill and other fucked up aristocrats travelled around the Muslim world looking for boys to rape during the British Empire. That’s because they were fucked-up UK aristos like you and BabyBugger with too much money and very little respect for anything or anyone else.
‘I think it was Thatcher who took that away from me and moved it to the first Monday in May! Unforgivable. I’m not quite sure about that though. Might have been Callaghan.’
John- the ‘May Day Bank Holiday’ in the UK has always been held on the first Monday in May, and is only held on 1 May when that date falls on a Monday. This arrangement was established by the Callaghan government, and grudgingly continued by Thatcher and her successors after 1979.
As for Craig’s prediction that ‘The Tories are going to win the UK election’ they may just win the largest percentage of the popular vote, but it still seems likely, with less than a week to go, that Labour will win more seats.
Like all sado-masochistic paedo-aristos you two manage to enjoy the water-boarding punishment you were given by your controllers for cocking up. Want another dose, boys? We’ve got an extra day on monday, which somehow I don’t think you’ll be needing to celebrate the achievements of international Socialism. Go on, mire yourself up to the eyeballs in defence of the indefensible you stupid slime-bags.
The ‘Clegg hoist by his own petard’ post explains why Labour will get more seats than its share of the total vote would otherwise indicate.
Old Mark
01/05/2015 12:10pm
Quite so. My apologies, clearly my memory is at fault. I think I was misled by it falling on 1st May in 1978 and not in 1979, and my parents saying something about that.
Funny, I’ve been persuaded of what I said for decades, and it’s not so.
Kind regards,
John
“The very rich Nazis are coming for you, Fred. Be very afraid…”
I’ll watch out for the black helicopter.
Interesting piece by Nick Cohen.
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/screen-mau-2015-nick-cohen-snp-civic-nationalism-mob-rule-faisal-islam-sky-news?page=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1