Being stuck in hospital watching the BBC relentlessly push the UKIP anti-immigration agenda is not the best of Sunday mornings. Especially when paying ten pounds for the privilege on the morally disgusting Patientline system.
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You guys don’t have to prove who you really are by not having anything significant today to post on The Pits thread.
I would like a Scottish Nationalist to explain to us,
why they imagine the salvation of Scotland is with the dying corpse of the E.U.
Three gone now, who will be next?
Norton.
If I were you I’d worry more about what the current EU members, have in store for Theresa May around the negotiating table.
You can’t leave the EU and get a better deal than the other 27 members, the “dying corpse” as you call it will possess more than enough life in it to thwart May’s cake and eat memo.
RoS
your pathetic administration in the North has been winging that they really, really, really want to be independent within the E.U.
Greece is being fucked off out of it because they have not quite grasped Austerity, firmly enough.
Cameron had a ref. on Europe, he lost, he has gone.
Renzi had a ref. he is this very moment handing his notice in to the President of Italy.
Your idol Socialist Francois Hollande is so loathed by the FRENCH ( Mr. 4%) that he will not be standing for a second time, France is lurching between the far right and the extreme far right.
Face it, the game is over.
It’s fairly obvious that the EU cannot sustain itself as both geopolitical project and economic project, especially now that the geopolitical project and the economic project are in tatters.
The geopolitical project, jointly run and led by NATO is sadly not in tatters and if anything is stronger and less accessible to any democratic influence.
Treeza vaunts her Christian values, She’ll be at home with Philip and a roast goose. Oh goodee!
Church, a home-cooked roast goose and a nice Agatha Christie: Theresa May reveals her perfect Christmas Day – and how it won’t change this year
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3999964/Theresa-says-Christmas-Day-plans-won-t-change-job-title.html
Before Christmas though she’s off to Bahrain where the despot friend of Her Maj tortures the dissenters and locks them up. Will she be selling weaponry and restraint equipment?
Theresa May’s Christmas message is heartwarming – for tyrants and torturers
December 5th, 2016
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/12/05/theresa-mays-christmas-message-heart-warming-tyrants-torturers-video/
Prime Minister seeks new chapter in relations with the Gulf on visit to Bahrain
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-seeks-new-chapter-in-relations-with-the-gulf-on-visit-to-bahrain
‘On a 2-day visit to Bahrain, the Prime Minister will seek to open a new chapter in relations between the UK and the Gulf States, renewing centuries-old ties and forging a stronger partnership focused on security and prosperity with the UK’s third largest export market.’
Here is Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, King of Bahrain at the Windsor Horse Show.
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/event/royal-windsor-horse-show-488493249?
Sharp Ears.
Surely May won’t look as stupid as HRH Charles, the dancing puppet of Saudi. Of course May will need to kowtow to the gulf prince’s, and never ever ever contemplate, mentioning the unmentionable words, “Human rights.”
May and Westminster, are hypocritical b#stards, condeming Iran and China for terrible human rights, yet she and her predecessors, have grovelled, placated, sated and obeyed many a murdering tyrant, all in the name of arms sales.
They are strong allies. A very low-key announcement of a British bnaval base in Bah was announced a couple of years ago and has attracted little comment. It is fully maintained by money from Bahrain and not the tax payer I am lead to believe.
BAE Systems sold $25.5 billion worth of weapons. This was partly attributed to the sale of Typhoon jets to the UK’s close Middle East ally Saudi Arabia, which is currently conducting an aerial bombing campaign over Yemen.
BAE occupies third place in the profit stakes, with US firms Lockheed Martin and Boeing first and second respectively.
Russia Today
I don’t understand why the U.K. is to spend 1/3 trillion pounds on the systems supporting the Trident nuclear shit, two new super-sized aircraft carriers, new drone technology and updating and increasing the ability of GCHQ bt 2/3
what are we gearing up 4?
“I would like a Scottish Nationalist to explain to us,
why they imagine the salvation of Scotland is with the dying corpse of the E.U.”
It is an increasingly forlorn hope.
The original idea, just a few months old now, was that if the UK left the position of chief arbiter of the world language-English- would be up for grabs.
Economically a very small prize but for the politicos one that seemed to promise lotsa cushy jobs shared with the Irish Republic.
You have to bear in mind that what matters most to politicians is not the people they represent but themselves. And a Brussels without Westminster nominated bureaucrats and placepersons set the taste buds tingling on the inner circles of the SNP.
The EU is one of those career mills that cannot be allowed to die- it just offers too much to the Kinnocks of this world to be allowed to go away without a real fight.
Welcome to Brexit II the Referendum.
There always is one-ask the Irish.
A second referendum would lead to clashes at the polling stations with feelings on both sides running so high, leading to several days of unrest, property destruction and likely a few deaths. They know that so likely intend neither a second referendum nor to honour the first. No matter, the Brexit camp gave the EU a mortal wound and other European nationals are waiting to finish it off.
They ask if people regret voting Brexit but don’t ask how many didn’t vote at all because they thought the vote was rigged to Remain. Many thousands who didn’t vote would be sure to next time, as will those who regret voting Remain, and those who didn’t take a pen and had their votes changed won’t have their votes changed next time. All that should take the Brexit vote nearer to 75-25.
“They ask if people regret voting Brexit but don’t ask how many didn’t vote at all because they thought the vote was rigged to Remain.”
And then there was those who regretted they voted Remain, “The reaction to the vote completely solidified that niggling feeling of doubt I had about my Remain vote. Leave voters were called fascists, morons, and all sorts of other disgusting insults. The tone of self-righteous superiority was suffocating, the calls for a second referendum were exasperating (we like democracy, except when there is a result that we don’t like – how very E.U. of you!), and then there was the over-the-top romanticisation of what is essentially a bureaucratic trade and labour deal that serves corporate interests far more than it does the ordinary people of Liverpool, Leverkusen or Liege. People were shedding tears for a union that plunged the entire nation of Greece into a depression for the sake of a few German and French banks.”
https://off-guardian.org/2016/07/23/why-im-ashamed-i-voted-remain/
French PM Manuel Valls announces 2017 presidential bid
that almost certainly means, Valls will have to stop being Prime minister.
Which then means Hapless Hollande has to shoehorn another sap into the pointless job, as they will be out on their ear
in a few months.
E.U. is in fucking turmoil.
The EU has morphed into a wholly criminal organization.
According to this report in a mere 2 month period various NGO’s have conspired to smuggle some 39,000 migrants into Europe.
https://gefira.org/en/2016/12/04/ngos-are-smuggling-immigrants-into-europe-on-an-industrial-scale/
This will not end well.
With Valls announcing he will quit his job as PM, that’s one key vacancy for Hollande to fill.
Health Minister Marisol Touraine and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve are among those tipped to succeed Valls as premier
for the six months until legislative elections that follow the presidential vote.
So for six months it will be as if Socialist FRANCE has nobody awake at the helm.
Perhaps Frau Nicola Sturgeon could strut over to France and grasp the helm?
“Scotland – independent in the EU”
(Sorry, but it never gets old.)
Disgracefully managed – how many in prison?
http://news.sky.com/story/rbs-settles-shareholder-lawsuits-as-part-of-163800m-deal-10684061
Royal Bank of Scotland has agreed a settlement with three out of five shareholder groups currently suing the bank for compensation.
The claims relate to a £12bn fundraising drive which RBS undertook in 2008,
just months before it had to be bailed out by the British taxpayer to the tune of more than £45bn.
The investor groups involved say they were misled when they bought shares in the bank in an effort to help shore up its finances, after a £49bn deal to acquire Dutch bank ABN Amro went south.
But the value of those shares plummeted when RBS was bailed out by the government.
The bank is still 73% owned by the British taxpayer and is struggling to get back on its feet following the financial crash.
RBS last week was the only major British bank to fail the Bank of England’s stringent stress tests, which were put in place to ensure that financial institutions in the UK are better prepared should another crash occur.
My first post on the blog.
I have been reading your blog for a long time. By far, my favourite political blog. I should post more here, and less on the Guardian.
Get well soon, Craig. God bless.
The Guardian did a jolly piece last week about ‘fake news’, a piece which amongst other things praised internet censorship in China. You may have seen it…
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/02/fake-news-facebook-us-election-around-the-world
The Monbat also got on the dollar bandwagon…
“The fake news we should be worried about is not stories invented by Macedonian teenagers about Hillary Clinton selling arms to Islamic State, but the constant feed of confected scares about unions, tax and regulation drummed up by groups that won’t reveal their interests.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/donald-trump-george-monbiot-misinformation
The Monbat does not of course mention ‘Pizzagate’, which has emerged out of the Wikileaks Podesta e-mails and points towards a massive satanic and paedophile network in Washington DC, right up to the highest levels, including President Obama.
This revelation, and the resulting cover-up, should come as no surprise to Brits.
Anyhows, the psychos are about to roll out the full police state, and voices like mine will be snuffed out…
Enjoy, and don’t forget to keep being terrified of the twerrorists, or the Russians, or whatever other nonsense they dangle in front of you.
“The Monbat does not of course mention ‘Pizzagate’, which has emerged out of the Wikileaks Podesta e-mails and points towards a massive satanic and paedophile network in Washington DC, right up to the highest levels, including President Obama.”
The Guardian mentions it. Calls it “fake news” of course. Sourced from Reuters.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/05/gunman-detained-at-comet-pizza-restaurant-was-self-investigating-fake-news-reportsool
And this is the fake news the once respected Guardian is referring to in its report.
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5bat1b/john_podesta_irrefutably_practices_satanic/
This is probably a much better assessment.
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/pizzagate-gunman-classic-media-cover/ri17991
Does it not concern people that our media is worse than Newspeak?
thanks for that link.
Bookmarking that site. Interesting stuff.
Who said satire was dead another “slightly pro Putin” site that would never ever, ever engage in false news.
Just a taster from one of Mr Putin’s best friends on Mr Goss’s favoured website.
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/zhirinovsky-gave-excellent-prophetic-speech-about-ukraine-1998-video/ri18004
@Resident Dissident
As this doesn’t seem to worth reporting in the MSM, is this an example of the “false news” that you claim “Putin Sites” put out ?;
https://www.rt.com/news/369282-russian-foreign-ministry-hospital-bombing/
Who do you think it being referred to in the statement; “Moscow understands who gave the Syrian militants the coordinates of the Russian hospital right at the moment when it started working,” ?
As much as it concerns people* that Russian media is doubleplusNewspeak, I guess. Giyane….Voltairenet?….really…
*whom I need not name
I’m not really sure what value this anti-Russian nonsense has these days.
The Russians have already won the debate.
Ideologically and materially.
That’s done.
There’s a whole new game now opening up.
These fetishistic rearguardists are still fighting an already lost game.
Shows us at least that they don’t have a full appreciation of what’s going on.
And yet the new reality is playing out all around them.
@ Herbie –
If they’ve won, all that will change is the language the dominant oligarchs will be speaking. Your support is no doubt greatly appreciated, but what even the commentariat is beginning to appreciate is that both sides can agree very sincerely on the need to suppress true democracy. Be careful what you wish for, especially if you claim to be a democrat.
John, HR 6393, the ‘Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017’ was passed through Congress last Friday…
http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.fr/2016/12/threat-to-alternative-media-house.html
(I can only give a link a blog, albeit a well respected blog, because MSM is not reporting this)
… and already they are shutting down many ‘alternate media’ web sites. Pizzagate stuff on Reddit and 4chan has been deleted/censored for the last week, and the same is now happening on lesser known discussion boards.
To try and sum up, the sicko, lunatic psychos really are taking over the asylum.
I’ll repeat this link again, because it seems to me to be a very good take on ‘Pizzagate’…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4OP–ZXOjc
I would also strongly advise people to check out the Reddit link that John gives above.
The Guardian link did not look right. You can always tell when MSM is lying. The comments are not open.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/05/gunman-detained-at-comet-pizza-restaurant-was-self-investigating-fake-news-reports
John I have to intervene this Pizza gate business is appalling conformation biased twaddle. There is no substantial evidence for any of it the supposed examples of code words and terms are clearly two middle aged people talking about pizza – they’re working class now rich Italian Americans I can assure you that pizza is an obsession – not one person can point to anything beyond innuendo.
This guy debunks it’s here clearly and in away any ADULT would understand and agree with far clearer than I could.
https://m.reddit.com/r/DebunkThis/comments/5dqwta/debunk_this_pizzagate/
Believe me, I am aware of institutional peadophillia but this is just plan fanciful rubbish.
And having red through the idiots that want to lynch podesta because he said pizza 10 times which / according to 4chan teenagers is code for child sex or something I can well believe those numpties would take it on thrmselves to attempt some “citizen justice” with a gun.
yes, the new snooper laws, and the Globalists efforts to close down real news sites, blogs, and curtail posts on social media, mean we are all in for an even scarier new world.
sadly, I cannot wake up friends and family to the reality. They still think we live in a democracy. They still think we have a free press.
First of all, welcome to eludeabites, hope you got the Guardian out of your bloodstream, they are no better than some of the tabloidal excretions elsewhere in the media.
To the issue of snooping and full spectrum surveillance. Today Goodle,Fart book and other internet big wigs have decided to cooperate with international aims at bringing terrorists to book.
Still the satellite providers of services to ISIS, Al Nusra, AlQuaeda and others, are refusing to cooperate and provide the GPS coordinates of the head choppers positions when they upload their bile on to the internet services of the world.
Another point, once pizza gate/many other victims are amplifying the hurt they have been subjected to by elites around the world online, will these shit hot IT providers, who say they will cooperate, ensure that that form of ‘societal terrorism’, which insidiously undermines families, sports ambitions, trust in the church, schools, politicians and their string pullers, is also brought to justice?
Even if this means that the institutions they helped to undermine with their silence are falling to pieces due to the revelations?
How the heck did you allow yourself to fall into the hands of the medical profession Craig? Didn’t your mother warn you about that?
May you escape their clutches soon.
The other day I declined a flu jab so my GP called me in. In seconds he had whipped out his syringe and stuck it into me. I know Craig’s been mentioning lobotomising drugs given to Karimov’s children, Maybe the experience of hospitalisation will give him an insight into the chemically lobotomised condition of our Tory cabinet. They say ultrasound instead of driving them away makes mice hyper and even more naughty.
Hehehe naughty mice! That tickled me. I’m finally out of the hospital and thankfully convalescing at home – there isn’t a part of my body that hasn’t been spiked poked amor bruised. I do hope Craig is ok and his conditions wasn’t as violently painful as mine.
Media Lens also appear to have been ‘captured’ (this has been apparent for some time on their message board). How an outfit like this can’t make any kind of comment on ‘Pizzagate’ is beyond belief.
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2016/833-fake-news-about-fake-news-the-media-performance-pyramid.html
Read it. No mention at all of ‘Pizzagate’, just mentions of the ‘fake news’ meme.
One good thing about Pizzagate is that it reveals who is real and who is not real.
Talking of fake news, didn’t Erdogan recently announce that the Turkish Army was marching to Damascus to overthrow Assad. That might have been 1st generation warfare straight lies to divert Assad from attacking Aleppo, as opposed to 4th generation warfare straight lies that Daesh were inside Mosul several hours before they had actually got there. But lies definitely.
It must be tempting for a child wearing a NATO Spider-Man action suit to pretend they can send out sticky suckers onto high-rise buildings, and for Erdogan to declare a Turkish caliphate by 2027 dressed in his NATO spider suit. But Cameron gave the game away by visiting Erdogan within weeks of becoming Prime Minister.
Erdogan is a NATO puppet and has to eat his NATO-compliant halal happy meal along with the rest of his NATO-Muslim Brotherhood-Arab Spring-confederates.
NATO ( sigh )
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=snoopy+sigh&view=detailv2&qpvt=snoopy+sigh&id=E2A37EA64C6FB59733FF0BA69C78F608EBF6F3AD&selectedIndex=1&ccid=N20JyDlR&simid=608006760073793452&thid=OIP.M376d09c839517471c08b16e32f50aaf4o0
http://www.voltairenet.org/article194344.html
Erdogan withdrew his claim that the Turkish invasion was against Asad. I doubt if “Mad King George” Erdogan is capable of being a puppet of anyone.
Are you saying he has an STD?
One disease he shares with a growing number of Muslims is the shirk of mixing worldly politics with Islam. Islam has a power and a politics in its own right of course, but if someone thinks they’ll get power by fighting for the interests of USUKIS, or Kurdistan, or personal gain, they might as well join the polytheist Arabs who worshipped statues as partners of God around the Ka’aba.
Shirk/ mixing worship for God with believing in other things is of course in Islam the one unforgiveable sin. Sorry Googoogah you’re on a hiding to nothing.
Hasn’t Craig escaped yet? Do we need to smuggle in a file hidden in a cake?
U.S.A.- backed “moderates” loss of the eastern half of Syria’s largest city Aleppo to Russian-backed government forces would be a defeat for President Barack Obama’s efforts to promote “democracy” and defeat terrorism in the Middle East,
U.S. officials conceded on Monday.
Their grim assessment reflected the expectation that the last rebel-held districts of Aleppo, where tens of thousands of civilians are trapped, will soon fall to the Syrian Army supported by Russia, Iran, and Shiite Muslim militias from Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere.”The fall of eastern Aleppo will confront the United States with the reality that supporting a moderate opposition with any hope of becoming the future government of Syria is no longer a hope,” said Paul Pillar, a former senior U.S. intelligence analyst.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-usa-analysis-idUKKBN13U2YO
Looks like the American plan has not worked.
The person, most likely getting his knickers in a twist will be Sultan Erdogan.
He will be surrounded on all sides by states that despise him.
I suspect the rebels’ morale collapsed when Trump won the election. There will be no President Hillary to save them.
Hard – Man Cazeneuve – Minister of Interior ( terror)
to take over as Prime minister of FRANCE.
Look Out
permanent State of Emergency on its way – withdrawl of democracy to follow
Bernard has been in charge of the Interior for the whole time of the government of Valls.
All through the terror, from before Charlie Hebdo.
Will there be a reduction in jobs and salaries at Network Rail when responsibilities for the tracks are handed over to the privateers who ‘operate’ the train companies? I doubt it.
11 Jul 2015
‘The number of Network Rail executives earning more than the Prime Minister has risen by more than half over the past four years despite a catalogue of failings over rail upgrades.
More than 50 staff at the organisation now earn more than £142,000, up from 32 when the Coalition came into power in 2010.
Mark Carne, the chief executive, earned £771,000 last year while the five most senior executives at the organisation took home £2.4million between them.’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11734020/Pay-increases-for-rail-bosses-despite-delays.html
Simon Jack wrote yesterday on the proposals. Note his concerns about safety.
Safety fears raised over government railway plans
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38201570
Grayling’s plans will meet approval from Thatcher’s children. Branson and co must be loving it.
There are many people in many walks of life who earn more – much more – than the Prime Minister.
Which poses the following question – is the Prime Minister underpaid, especially in view of his or her responsibilities?
I happen to think that he/she is.
Really.
Do you get a better puppet if you pay them more.
Perhaps.
The cabinet secretary is paid more than the PM.
And he’s higher up the chain of puppets.
I don’t quite understand why you are referring to “puppets”, Herbie, in this discussion about the relative pay of the British PM and certain Network Rail executives which was initiated by Sharp Ears’s post.
You’re perhaps suggesting that those Network Rail executives are “puppets”?
More generally and re. your thought about a “chain” of puppets, who in your opinion is the chief “puppet” – the one at the top of the “chain” (in the UK )- and who is the Grand Puppet Master?
You’re not contesting the fact that the cabinet secretary is higher up the puppet chain than the PM.
Fine.
Who’s above the cabinet secretary?
That’ll be a very select committee of the privy council.
Even more select than the cabinet itself, which is a committee of the privy council.
Bit like that group of 32 who really run Iran.
Most countries, even those which effect to be democratic, operate like this.
A kind of perennial cabinet which steers the ship of state, irrespective of the public cabinet you see in No 10.
I mean, who’s gonna trust to the vagaries of passenger opinion, when steering the mighty ship twixt Scylla and Charybdis and past the seductive Sirens.
Eh?
Herbie
“Who’s above the cabinet secretary?
That’ll be a very select committee of the privy council.
Even more select than the cabinet itself, which is a committee of the privy council.”
_________________________
Sound rather vague to me.
Does this mysterious “very select committee of the privy council” – even more select than the Cabinet, apparently, – have a name?
Thanks in advance.
To insiders, it does.
But not to the public. It’s just an unvariegated privy council to them.
It’s a bit like when the UK used to pretend not to have any intelligence service.
You remember that.
Before Blair changed it.
Anyway.
Future proof all United Kingdom Nuclear Power Stations against Tsunamis.
Durham University professor of marine geology Peter Talling said: “We believe the government should consider adding tsunamis to the National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies.”
The register sets out plans for rare, but potentially devastating disasters, such as flu epidemics and floods.
https://www.rt.com/uk/369260-tsunami-landslide-nuclear-plant/
Hinkley Point is within the catchment of the 1607 Bristol Tsunami
http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/1607-flood.shtml
I listened to Radio 4 on Sunday evening. They were clearly disappointed by the result in Austria, and positively salivating with glee at the Italian result, hinting at problems for the Italian government, Italian banks, the Euro and hinting at the breakup the EU. I suspect, however that this is pure projection.
Personally I would like to see the BBC thrown out of the EBU for such despicable conduct.
I too listened to the BBC on Sunday evening and must report that there was neither clear disappointment at the Austrian result nor salivating with glee at the Italian referendum result.
On the contrary, I thought the coverage was fair, impartial and balanced. And why, indeed, should it not have been?
Perhaps we have been listening to different BBCs?
OK, here it is. Let the clucking begin…
http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html
Sites, knowingly or not, relaying the Russian state line.
Propornot are an embarrassment but not as much as the WT for running with it. But corporate media is exactly that media for profit, and if you’re product is being outsold by another newer slicker product then well, start a good old smear campaign. It’s just standard business practice.
This is a good article on it all
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/06/post-fact-politics-reviewing-the-history-of-fake-news-and-propaganda/
That’s a bit of a rant, though, isn’t it? And it concentrates very hard on the iniquities of US mass media without dwelling on (say) Russian domestic media control. However, it concludes:
Spotlighting propaganda is an important goal in any society that cares about democracy. But we do little to understand how manipulation and indoctrination work if we engage in false narratives that unfairly demonize progressive media, while ignoring the actual propaganda that’s perpetrated in the “mainstream” media. In an era of record mass distrust of the media, efforts to identify propaganda as merely the work of “others” are hopelessly out of touch with growing public anger at officialdom and the officially-allied media propaganda we euphemistically call “news.”
Obviously, Propornot have touched a nerve here. But is what it’s doing – simply listing what it sees as Putin’s mirror sites – ‘unfairly demonising’ them, or making a valid association? It’s not beasting all ‘progressive’ sites, but as its intro makes clear, is rather keen not to be unfair. And is ‘public anger against officialdom’ not rather easily generated and sustained by promoting the ‘progressive automatically good, mainstream automatically bad’ dichotomy? And whose interests does this anger serve?
Let’s learn to be critical of all opinions, eh?
Clucking or not, Glenn Greenwald laid this egg.
Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group/
Scottish schools drop in world rankings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-38207729
Education professor calls Scotland figures ‘shocking’
http://www.itv.com/news/border/2016-12-06/education-professor-calls-scotland-figures-shocking/
Time Sturgeon got back to the day job.
“Time Sturgeon got back to the day job.”
Is there much call for clowns? I understood people were hunting them down recently so has this caused a shortage?
Frau Sturgeon could wear a ginger wig?
Surely it’s the Professor, and his profession, that need to get back to their day jobs?
We pay professors in Scotland to teach Latin and Greek to the kids of wealthy European bankers and lawyers.
But we can’t afford to teach Scottish kids to read and write.
Fred.
I think you’ll find the whole of UK dropped not just Scotland, with discriminate reports like that Fred, a job at the Ministry of Truth awaits you.
I think you’ll find that Scotland had better results than England in the last test and have worse in this test.
Carnoustie by-election results are in.
IND: 43.6% (+43.6)
SNP: 32.1% (-4.3)
CON: 17.7% (+11.5)
LAB: 4.4% (-1.8)
LDEM: 2.3% (+1.4)
Ind gain from SNP.
These poorly educated Scots probably thought they were voting for Indy.
And if you look out at the sea at Carnoustie golf course, you see English waters, the 6000 miles that were stolen under Labour.
Repeat a lie often enough eh?
No I think you’ll find it is Westminster that is full of liars, “the only way Scotland can remain in the EU is if it votes no.”
And that’s just one big fat lie, there are plenty more.
Remember or have you conveniently forgotten?
So where is the legal advice Salmond claimed to have received claiming otherwise?
There wasn’t any, it was a lie.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10367759/Alex-Salmond-spent-20000-keeping-secret-non-existent-EU-legal-advice.html
You are obsessed with Independence, why not have yet another once in a lifetime Referendum?
You know you want to.
If that does not work, just have another.
The Vow, the Smith Commission, mobile phone charges to rise attacks from outerspace, and dozens more lies from Better Together who represented the Westminster government.
Oh and lets not forget, the sheer and utter bias of the Treasury under Nicholas MacPherson.
Infact the whole union of 1707 is built up lies, with only 1% of Scots allowed to vote back then, the rich, the nobles and the wealthy merchants, who all received, lands titles and financial gain to sell their country out.
A parting of ways is well overdue.
SNP down 4.3 points, Conservatives up 11.5.
That’s a fact.
Treeza emulates Bush and Blair on board a warship. Shame she did not have one of the new aircraft carriers on which to parade around. She’s got Christmas on the brain.
Theresa May wishes troops Happy Christmas on Royal Navy flagship in Bahrain
The Prime Minister stood on the sunbaked flight deck of HMS Ocean, sending season’s greetings to 300 sailors, airmen and Marines
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/theresa-wishes-troops-happy-christmas-9400164
Shame on the Mirror for the war porn within the propaganda piece.
Elsewhere in Saudi Arabia, part of the Gulf Cooperation Council she is meeting today, are executing 15 men today. They were accused of being spies for Iran.
But it’s OK. She is going to ‘raise concerns’ at the Gulf Cooperation Council ‘summit’ – a gathering of despots, dictators and murderers especially Saudi Arabia in Yemen for the last two years.
Theresa May urged to raise human rights concerns on Gulf visit
PM unveils joint security effort and says she will discuss rights as Bahrain cracks down on journalists and activists
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/06/theresa-may-announces-joint-effort-on-security-in-gulf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Cooperation_Council
“Elsewhere in Saudi Arabia, part of the Gulf Cooperation Council she is meeting today, are executing 15 men today. They were accused of being spies for Iran.”
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From time to time people get executed in Arab countries for being spies for Israel.
Curiously enough, however, I have never seen anyone protesting about that on this blog.
Israel can spy where it likes.
That’s what the US experience shows.
Indeed, Israel has a virtual carte blanche, when it comes to aggression around the world. The Great Satan, (consecutive US governments) se too that.
Where are all these countries which have been attacked by Israel (“Israel has a virtual carte blanche, when it comes to aggression around the world”) ?
Has Israel attacked any country or organisation other than those countries abd organisations which have attacked it (some of which still deny Israel’s right to exist)?
RoS
when you are an independent country
what currency will you use?
Israel spies where it is able to – exactly like every other technically capable nation.
You’re putting the cart before the horse there, habby.
Israel wasn’t at all a technically capable nation when it started nicking US secrets.
Far from it.
It was only through the spying that it developed that capacity.
So.
Must have had friends in the US.
Israel, stole the hard working American’s tax dollars, just like they’ve stolen Palestinian lands.
Both could not have happened without the aid of the US.
If the American public ever wake up, and realise that they’re being fleeced to support a warmongering oppressive military state, things might get pretty ugly pretty quickly.
@ Herbie: Actually I think it was French nuclear secrets. The reason Israel so well understood the Iraqi nuclear programme is that it was another copy of the same process.
And Israel started off with a lot of very capable technicians that Europe didn’t seem to want for some reason – and who for perhaps the same reason did not want Europe
We’re talking about technology more generally.
The Israelis have stolen quite a lot from the US.
That’s not in dispute.
For other readers who might what to know what from ‘time to time’ means for a UK fan of a Saudi regime that keeps its proxy wars as dirty as shaitans al aanhah, it means about 50 people/per month. Its just to keep people in fear of the regime, they are paranoid that someone finds out about their weekly wiski flights from the UK. Saudi is keeping two dirty proxy wars in Syria and Yemen, and mass suppression of Bahrain’s majority Shia population, going and which has been seen to ignore and break UN human rights more than once, its more like a profession there.
Like it was mentioned before, all with our help and much arms and bombs that keep the profits coming in, ehhh, maybe not in, the profits might end up in some tax haven.
here in blighty they are called accident victims.
Merkel Schmerkel
http://www.thinktank.uk.com/thinktank-thoughts/2016/3/14/a65ue1j87gms1t0iglw5ujb3pqxrik
Frau Angela Merkel endorses burka ban
so she may be having a re-think
German State Media Defends Not Reporting German Girl Raped and Murdered by ‘Refugee’
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/12/06/german-state-broadcaster-fails-report-migrant-rape-murder/
State control of media?
Not any more http://www.dw.com/en/freiburg-shock-in-a-near-perfect-world/a-36661226
Have you heard of the saying ‘One swallow does not make a Summer’.
Suggest a viewing of Vanessa Redgrave’s new film, Sea Sorrow.
’21 hrs ago / Press Association 2014
A hard-hitting film directed by Vanessa Redgrave which exposes the reality of the refugee crisis across Europe is set to be launched in London.
Sea Sorrow is the Academy Award-winner’s debut as a director, and also takes her a step further in her long-standing campaign to protect the rights of refugees.
She said the film, being screened at Hammersmith Town Hall on Tuesday, will make viewers feel “stronger” and encourage solidarity with refugees.
The 79-year-old told the Press Association: “We all get tired, we’ve got to be reminded of the deeper things that make it worthwhile to live and to help others, and that’s really why we made this film.’
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http://www.barrheadnews.com/news/entertainment/14948666.Vanessa_Redgrave_makes_directorial_debut_with_film_exposing_refugee_crisis/
Theft of Palestinian land and homes by settlers is being legalised
Israel votes to authorise illegal settler homes in Palestine
Passage of bill to evacuate one settler site while retroactively recognising others meets with condemnation from UN and US
5 December 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/05/israel-votes-to-authorise-illegal-settler-homes-in-palestine
‘Israel’s parliament has voted to retroactively legalise thousands of illegitimate settler homes in outposts built on private Palestinian land, in a highly controversial move described by critics as a “land grab”. The measure, which passed in a stormy Knesset session late on Monday, has been met with international condemnation, and has already strained relations within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing rightwing coalition.
It comes in sharp defiance of a call on Sunday by the US secretary of state, John Kerry, who urged Israel again to rein in the construction of settlements on West Bank land.
The bill passed its first reading by 60 votes to 49, and still has to pass a further three votes before becoming law. During the debate, the opposition leader, Isaac Herzog, fiercely denounced the law by equating its adoption to “national suicide”. While the bill seems likely to have support to pass its further readings, it appears inevitable that it will be challenged in court.
Israeli critics and Palestinians have described the legislation as a land grab that would further distance prospects for a two-state solution to end the long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some high-profile political supporters, echoing that view, celebrated the vote by saying it opened the way to annexation of the West Bank and the end of any prospect of a Palestinian state,’
The BBC unbelievably carried this news on their programme Outside Source tonight but the news item is rather hidden away on their website on the ME page.
Israeli MPs advance bill to legalise West Bank outposts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38215653
‘The international community regards all settlements as illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.’
Palestinians see settlements as a major obstacle to a peace deal with Israel.’
Israel disputes this……. of course.
The two-state solution exists only as a meme to distract from its logical alternative, an integrated, single state with equal rights for its inhabitants. Both are equally impossible to reconcile with Israel’s current exceptionalist standpoint, and it might nowadays be more constructive to address the atrocities per se rather than calling them in aid of this or that ‘solution’.
MAP has just sent me its Christmas appeal pack – the card shows a dove with a crosshairs aligned on its breast. Fortunately, it is wearing a flak jacket…more here:
https://www.map-uk.org/
If you can, do.
The SNP began as a nationalist party and were denounced by the “Left” as “Tartan Tories” but then the “Left” joined to form a vehicle against the “Labour Tories” and the “Westminster Tories” and because many of the new constituency were “Green” they also denounced the “Orange Tories”, but retained support among many “Scottish Tories” against the “Southern England Tories” and as both UK Labour and Conservatives fortunes waned due to their embrace of EU/Globalism and mass-immigration, the SNP was left holding the baby as the “stronger voice for Scotland party” a sentiment captured in the rest of UK by UKIP. But now SNP is in power and scrutinised the Corbyn “Left” are denouncing them as “Tories” and the “Tories” are denouncing them as the “EU/Marxist phoney independence party” that will squeeze the SNP and fuel a realignment in Scottish politics.
Dave that sounded quite good but there was too much toing and froing, so i got somewhat lost.
Is the gist “£ the SNP are now just like any other main stream party, fist-fighting, threatening their own members, stealing, fiddling expenses, telling lies to the voters, feathering their own nests and so on?
Italy’s Renzi hands in resignation amid European political turmoil
Not sure if Renzi has actually gone, might be as in Nigel Farage, I’ve resigned, oh no I have not.
‘It’s dying before our eyes’ Now Nigel Farage promises to take a WRECKING BALL to the EU
The European Empire is like a wounded deer, doesn’t yet know the game is up.
The BBC has said it should not pay Sir Cliff Richard the damages he is seeking as a result of the coverage of a police raid on his home in England in 2014.
The BBC were hooked up with the police from Yorkshire.
The BBC hounded Sir Cliff, it made his life ghastly.
This may have been to over-compensate for looking the other way over Mr.Savile,
who worked for them for years and was untouchable but not untouching.