The Labour Party is being remarkably coy about releasing the actual result of its Scottish accounting unit leadership election, giving only a percentage. The entirely complacent unionist media is complicit in what amounts to a deception. The stunning truth is that in a one person, one vote election among the entire membership of the Labour Party in Scotland plus trades union supporters, Dugdale won with 5,217 votes (out of a claimed electorate of 21,000, many of whom do not exist or could not be arsed to choose between two right wing numpties).
UPDATE: A second Labour figure just rang me to assure me my information – which was from a good source – is wrong. She would not give the actual figure and only said it was “higher”. I offered to take down the post and publish an accurate figure if she would give it, but this was declined.
Re Benefits Agency staff are now being given special training so that they know what to say when a claimant threatens suicide, this piece sums it up very well;
https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/the-tories-are-fucking-bastards/
Macky
23/08/2015 12:18pm
Thanks, Macky. Here’s the newspaper report.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/13620988._Suicide_guidance__given_to_benefits_staff_preparing_for_desperate_calls_on_welfare_reform/?ref=rss
Kind regards,
John
Wee Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail, the 73 year old Jewish Senator (Habb keep your hair on I only said he is Jewish not a leper) is up against the mega bucks backed Hillary (my servers in the bathroom) Clinton.
Bernie a socialist already has an 11 point plan to change America for the better but not one Senator from Congress supports Bernie.
Infact a Gallup poll in June, found Americans would vote for a Muslim, Hispanic, or a Catholic
President before they’d vote for a socialist one.
Sanders points out Obama tried but was curtailed by big pharama and Goldman Sachs who funded his campaign when it came to Obamacare, Wall St had different ideas to Obama’s.
Bernie would probably be good for America, but Clinton has cash at her back, I’ll be surprised if Clinton doesn’t become the Democratic candidate for the US presidential race.
I don’t want anyone to kill themselves. However, if they feel they must because of “Sanctions”, then the place to do it is “The DWP Office”.
They are killed over there, and they are killed over here. They are in huge queues in the Macedonian borders, and they are in the sea on their sinking boats. They are given a warm welcome by their hosts;
worrying upsurge in attacks on Muslims
Do the “liberals” waxing lyrical about “values” and “at these times” care one jot about it all?
Back to the blog revisionism; “seen people express the view that Jewish/Israeli people deserve to be killed for what has happened in Palestine”
A clear case of antetraumatic stress disorder or as Atzmon calls it Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Anyone reading this comment ask yourselves and then keep asking yourselves; do you believe in “trinity”? Do you believe in Caliphate running the show? Then write out your answers, in the way of lightening the workload of the resident blog Torquemada, and his support personnel.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13620988._Suicide_guidance__given_to_benefits_staff_preparing_for_desperate_calls_on_welfare_reform/
Here you JSD.
If the devils who have ganged up in the MSM succeed in conning Corbyn supporters to change their minds, we may see the Labour party go the way the LibDems did under Clegg, into oblivion. Podemos anyone?
Tsar Bomba
23/08/2015 12:39pm
I have a sneaking suspicion that Corbyn will win even with (or perhaps owing to) everything that has been thrown at him.
Everything and everyone has been wheeled out: Blair, Brown, Campbell, Mandelson, all the lesser neo-con lights. Anti-Semitism, smear by association, scare-mongering, personal attacks by the other candidates…the list is as long as your arm.
Ordinary Labour supporters are sick and tired of these guzzling hypocrites.
I think he will win.
Kind regards,
John
You are welcome Robert (Crawford) and good news that you are feeling better. Fingers crossed for the next CT scan. (
Computerized Tomography btw – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT_scan )
Ref the lovely Ineos. Ratcliffe does not like unions or publicity, has his companies registered in Switzerland, has applied four times to build
a monstrosity on the Beaulieu river in a most beautiful location and the owner of not one, but two, super yachts Hampshire 1 and Hampshire 11.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ratcliffe
Obviously trying to wear down the planners in the New Forest National Park.
http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/13310995.Tycoon_s_fourth____next_generation____Hampshire_house_plan_turned_down/
http://www.superyachtfan.com/superyacht/superyacht_hampshire_ii.html
and so on.
IDS has been invited back to Scotland, Easterhouse to be precise, where he claimed he saw so much poverty that he underwent a “Road to Damasus” moment, IDS claimed that such was the poverty in
Easterhouse that he vowed to instil get this, “Compassionate Conservatism.”
Is this guy for real? Compassionate Conservatism, more like Crushing Conservatism, if you ask me.
Technically this is a guy who’s caused more suffering and pain to the poor, disabled and sick, over the last five years, than any other British government in recent times.
Smith claimed he had his epiphany in 2002, it’s now 2015, and instead of supporting the less fortunate he’s suppressing them.
Smith you’re full of it.
The people of England have a great chance now to get their wealth back in their own hands now, thanks to Jeremy Corbyn.
I am sure they will grab it with both hands.
Go you English go!
We in Scotland are doing it, you do it too.
Think for yourself, don’t let the scaremongers frighten you. We did not let them frighten us. Albeit, they fooled some of us. Never again, Gordon!
I see after several days of tit for tat actions North Korea and South Korea have met and agreed to stop being naughty.
What caused the tiff, well the South had their telly speakers up too loud, and their northern neighbours couldn’t concentrate on kissing Kim Jong-un’s arse because of it.
You know how it is, when granny up the stairs telly is on full volume you just can’t think straight.
Anyway the North decided to call off hostilities when they realised half of the American fleet was doing operational excercises off the coast of their southern neighbours, (what a coincjdence..eh) plus the the norths bully friend (China) couldn’t be bothered to turn up to wag it’s finger in the faces of the south.
Recommended.
The Reunion http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b065rvpv iPlayer 45mins
Sue MacGregor speaks to former detainees and the head of the guard force at Guantanamo Bay.
In 2002, a detention camp was hastily built in a remote corner of Cub, to house the men captured in America’s “war on terror”. Thirteen years later, it is still there. And in the intervening time, Guantanamo Bay has become a byword for controversy, a place Amnesty International called “the gulag of our time”.
Now Sue MacGregor reunites two of the men held there. Sami al Hajj, a Sudanese cameraman with the news organisation Al Jazeera, was picked up in Afghanistan. He says he was covering America’s war with the Taliban. Moazzam Begg, who is British, was living with his family in Pakistan when he was arrested. He claims he was handed over for bounty money. They are joined by Colonel Mike Bumgarner, head of the guard force at Guantanamo, and lawyer Clive Stafford Smith.
Sami al Hajj spent eight years in the camp. He describes being beaten and forcibly kept awake. He went on hunger strike and says he was force fed until he threw up, in an attempt to break his strike. But the worst torture was being kept away from his family, particularly his baby son. Moazzam Begg was detained for three years. He says he saw two men beaten to death by American soldiers in Afghanistan on his way to Guantanamo.
Colonel Mike Bumgarner describes how little guidance was given to those in charge of running the camp and points out that, while force feeding is unpleasant, detainees can’t just be allowed to die. Clive Stafford Smith reveals the black humour at the heart of Guantanamo, recalling a detainee who was accused of being an Al Qaeda financier purely as a result of mistranslation.
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Not a typo. That is his name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bumgarner
Republicofscotland don’t buy into the propaganda.
The glimpse of what was happening in Korea around 1950 can be found indirectly in this death. Along with some revealing truths about “freedom” brand.
Remember a world without any opposition is the world that can no longer change, and without change it would be a world of shit in which DWP can plan how to kill off people as a means of saving on the benefits and the national health service bill!
Re Benefits Agency staff needing to be trained to deal with the suicidal, contrast with this report;
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33977636
A Canadian international criminal lawyer looks at Resident Dissident’s (and others) beloved fascist crimes.
http://nsnbc.me/2015/08/21/minsk-2-a-rotting-corpse/
Mary, you are genius!.
You come up with all the right things at the right time.
Did you notice that Nessie was having an away day at the seaside, Saturday?
Scan in the middle of September, appointment middle of October to get the results is rubbish.
I said this to my G.P. “Don’t tell me , tell your M.P.” he replied.
Tell the man on the moon more like! If you could see the replies that come back from Nicola Stugeon’s lachies. I don’t know why I bother. Maybe that is their Modus Operandi?
I saw wee Johnny the barber, now my M.P. at Westmonster the other Monday when I was on my way to pay my council tax. He was coming out of the building as I was going in. He noticed me and turned his head to the left, and kept it like that until we passed.
We have never met. Yet he recognized me. I wonder how???.
Big brother is still watching me! Fools!!!.
Here is an interesting and thoughtful piece from someone who is not a paid shill for the CORBYN WILL SPELL THE DEATH KNELL FOR THE LABOUR PARTY crowd.
If you mull over what he is saying, and contrast it with the stuff that has been said about Corbyn’s political positions by almost everybody in the public eye over the past month or so, the implications are really extraordinary.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/labour-leadership-contest-behind-the-times-no-jeremy-corbyn-may-be-ahead-of-the-game-10467323.html
Kind regards,
John
Re the European refugee crisis, let’s not forget the role of the US in this;
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/dan-simpson/2015/08/19/Dan-Simpson-The-United-States-owns-part-of-Europe-s-migrant-problem/stories/201508190009
John Spencer-Davis.
I think Chunkymark sums up the fear in, not only The Labour Party and the Tory Party, caused by Jeremy Corbyn’s inclusive policies. He has the poverty creators worrying where their next million or billion is going to come from.
The “gravy train is about to come off the rails”. Yyiippeeee!!!
Is he in danger?
The images of IDS shown here, cheering Gideon’s cuts, are enough to give the viewer a severe dose of IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/08/fist-pumping-iain-duncan-smith-george-osborne-living-wage-budget
Australian economist Bill Mitchell is well worth following.
“The conservative forces including those ‘Tories’ that are within the British Labour Party (aka New Labourites) continue to gather their forces to counter the growing threat posed by Jeremy Corbyn to their secure world as neo-liberal, Tory-lite hopefuls… It tells us that desperation has replaced any sense of decency or reason. It also tells us that the Tory-lites are finally seeing the evidence that their day in the sun has gone and they are being cast into irrelevance. Not before time, I should add. But all is not clear on the Corbyn front either”
Well worth reading the whole thing, the comments are good too:
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=31626#more-31626
Robert Crawford
23/08/2015 1:52pm
Physical danger? I think he would do well to be aware of the possibility. Do bear in mind that as Prime Minister he would be in a position to lift the lids off some exceedingly nasty cans of worms, and actually he appears to be one of the very few people who would be prepared to do so.
I honestly think that that is a large part of the reason why Blair, Straw et al are so keen not to see him elected.
Kind regards,
John
Talking of IBS inducing photos of IDS, and of the DWP;
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-admits-making-up-quotes-by-benefit-claimants-saying-sanctions-helped-them-10460351.html
John Spencer-Davis.
You me and the guilty know all of that.
Jeremy Corbyn MUST be STOPPED. by Chunkymark. Take a look, please.
Mary.
Very funny, I B S.
Laughter is good medicine.
Republicofscotland
““7 kms of sea swimming today and I’m knackered.”
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Impressive, 7 Kms of swimming and not harpooned once, my own claim to fame is around 3 Kms in a pedalo at the resort of Alcudia.”
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Thank you for that, RoS. I hope you will not be less impressed if I tell you that (1) the sea was very calm, and (2) practically no wind and (3) I am a rather strong swimmer (amongst other physical accomplishments).
Talking of the DWP making up quotes.
Did you see the response on Twitter?
E.G. “thanks for putting me in touch with nature again now that I am living in the woods since I lost my home”.
Starvation is great I am new 2 stones lighter since you stopped my money.
Puncinella (22h18)
“http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2550620/gazas_revenge_israelis_swim_in_palestinian_shit.html
@Lo Zuccone 9.45pm
” 7 kms of sea swimming today and I’m knackered ” .
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And probably infected !! Such is the price of hasbara machismo .”
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No, Pulcinella, I’m fine, thank you.
Worry more about the shit in your own head, old chap.
BTW, what is “hasbara machismo” and how does it differ – if at all – from common garden machismo?
As always, grateful for your (never-forthcoming) responses.
“We have never met. Yet he recognized me. I wonder how???.”
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Perhaps he didn’t recognise you personally as Robert Crawford or whatever your real name is; perhaps he just recognised the foolishness and paranoia shining out of you?
As evidenced, for example, by the rest of your post, viz
“Big brother is still watching me!”