A list of nothing
The Daily Record today outlines what it’s pushing hard as a triumphant intervention from Gordon Brown which justifies a No vote in the referendum. (It also claims the credit, comically suggesting its Monday front page drove Brown’s announcement.)
It lists “12 new powers” in Brown’s plan. Let’s take a look.
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“1. New powers for Job creation
Full devolution of Work Programme to Scottish local authorities to meet the needs of jobs market”
IS IT NEW? No. It’s on page 21 of Labour’s devo proposals from March 2014.
IS IT WORTHWHILE? No. The Work Programme is a waste of money. Putting it in the inept hands of a bunch of Labour councillors won’t magically transform it.
“2. New powers in areas of transport
Devolution of railway powers to facilitate a “not for profit” option for ScotRail franchise.”
IS IT NEW? No. It’s on page 37 of the March devolution document.
IS IT WORTHWHILE? Couldn’t hurt. But it would also be delivered by a Yes.
“3. New borrowing powers for economic and social investment
Scottish Government to issue its own bonds to finance investment in infrastructure and borrow £22 billion for capital investment.”
IS IT NEW? Well, sort of – page 59 of the March devolution document notes that there are £2.2bn of borrowing powers coming anyway due to the Scotland Act 2012. Either Labour have suddenly proposed a massive 900% increase in borrowing for Holyrood, or some monkey at the Record can’t type properly. We suspect the latter.
(Though of course, Labour has some recent history of spuriously multiplying things by 10 for effect.)
IS IT WORTHWHILE? It’s happening anyway.
“4. New powers over land use
Full devolution to local councils of the Crown Estate’s responsibility for the seabed and foreshore to local authorities.”
IS IT NEW? No. It’s on page 22 of the March devolution document.
IS IT WORTHWHILE? Yes. But the Scottish Government asked for devolution of Crown Estates back in 2011. It was refused. So any chance of it being devolved after a No vote would appear to depend on the election of a Labour UK government, and then that government keeping its promise.
“5. New powers over social care
Attendance Allowance for severely disabled people or those aged 65 or over who need help to be devolved. Over 140,000 people receive Attendance Allowance in Scotland worth £0.48 billion.”
IS IT NEW? No. It’s on page 41 of the March devolution document.
IS IT WORTHWHILE? It would certainly be welcome to have the damage done by the last Labour government reversed. Given that history, readers may be sceptical of Labour’s intentions.
“6. New powers over housing benefits
Housing benefit to be devolved Over 400,000 households in Scotland get Housing Benefit, with expenditure amounting to £1.7 billion, representing 12.3 per cent of DWP benefits expenditure in Scotland.”
IS IT NEW? No. It’s on page 18 of the March devolution document.
IS IT WORTHWHILE: It’s a moot point, as there’s no realistic chance of housing benefit actually being extricated from Universal Credit in just one part of the UK. Labour’s own devolution document is very vague on how such a difficult task could be achieved, and the Conservative one more or less says it’s impossible (page 17).
“7. New Employment rights
Bolster workers’ rights responsibility for administration of employment tribunals, including charging arrangements.”
IS IT NEW? No. It’s on page 201 of the March devolution document.
IS IT WORTHWHILE? Well, it’s probably not harmful. But we’re not aware of it being a thing anyone has ever cried out in anguish to have devolved. Labour’s devolution document notes that “their statutory origin means that there is little/no difference between employment law in England and Wales and Scotland”.
“8. New Health and safety powers
Establish a Scottish Health & Safety Executive to set enforcement priorities, goals and objectives.”
IS IT NEW? No. It’s on page 195 of the March devolution document.
IS IT WORTHWHILE? No. The devolution document is dismissive of the idea of any serious devolution of health and safety, noting that “full devolution of health & safety on the Northern Irish model would not be appropriate for Scotland”. The new “executive” would be a talking shop.
“9. New equality powers
Enforcement of equalities legislation devolved to ensuring women are fairly represented on Scotland’s public boards and in other public appointments.”
IS IT NEW? No. It’s on page 213 of the March devolution document.
IS IT WORTHWHILE? Hard to say. The devolution report offers no explanation of why such powers would need to be devolved. Of course, we back ALL powers being at Holyrood, so ANY being transferred is good, but the practical difference it would make to anyone’s life in this case is difficult to ascertain.
“10. New Constitional powers
Confirming the Scottish Parliament as a permanent, irreversible part of our constitution.”
IS IT NEW? No. It’s on page 82 of the March devolution document.
IS IT WORTHWHILE? No. It’s totally meaningless. No government can ever bind the hands of its successors. If a subsequent UK government wanted to overturn the decision it could do so at will.
“11. New powers for elections
Administration of elections and related order-making powers. UK Parliament will remain responsible for UK General Elections and European Elections.”
IS IT NEW? No. It’s on page 14 of the March devolution document.
IS IT WORTHWHILE? We don’t have that already?
“12. New powers in relation to income tax
Further devolution of tax powers, particularly in the sphere of income tax. The biggest transfer of fiscal power in the history of the UK.”
IS IT NEW? No. We’ve been covering it in depth for months, and it’s all over the March devolution document, starting on page 15.
IS IT WORTHWHILE? No. It’s a massive trap that will cost Scotland billions. And Labour knows it, which is why it’s so feeble compared to the more extensive Tory offer.
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So what the Record calls “12 new powers” are in fact 12 old ones we’ve known about since March. They’re being offered by a man who didn’t implement them when he had the power to do so, and who is unlikely to even be an MP after the next election. The Times observes this morning that:
“Mr Brown will try to force Labour to expand the list of powers that it will promise to devolve to Scotland, a move that is likely to pitch him into a confrontation with Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor.”
So even if Brown IS still in Parliament (which he probably won’t be), and Labour DOES win the election (which it probably won’t), he’ll be slapped down by the Chancellor.
On the basis of this wafer-thin and tissue-fragile premise, the paper wants Scots to vote No and then cross their fingers and hope for the best. We can think of something else readers might want to do with those two fingers.
I presume what you are suggesting folk might do with those two fingers is use them to hold a pen, and put a cross in the Yes box, ensuring we get all of those powers, plus a whole lot more.
Isn’t that right, Rev?
Pointless powers,vote yes – get everything,vote no – get nothing,because that is what these amount to.
Here is my two finger “V” ( best I could manage!)
I sincerely hope NONE of these people have anything to do with our NEW SCOTLAND” duplicitous scum.
12 new powers – written on a steamed-up window.
“We can think of something else readers might want to do with those two fingers.”
I can also think of more useful purposes for the Daily Record.
A wee reminder
Before any further taxes are devolved, under the Scotland Act 2012, Scotland will be responsible for collecting 16% of all taxes raised in Scotland, with Westminster collecting the remaining 84%.
The Conservatives proposals would see just 28.3% of taxation controlled by Scotland, and 71.7% controlled by Westminster.
The Labour proposals would result in 20% of taxation controlled by Scotland, and 80% controlled by Westminster.
The Lib Dem proposals would result in 40% of taxation controlled by Scotland, and 60% controlled by Westminster.
a) If these ‘new’ devolved powers(?) are what Gordon Brown et al are what they think we need, why weren’t they included in the Scotland Act? After all, it’s only two years old.
b) Wouldn’t it be better to ask what we think are in our best interests and not have our best interests decided for us?
Let’s vote YES and keep 100% of our income and decide how, when, where and why we want to spend it.
Neatly dissected.
A full set of Joke proposals from the Joker himself!
A Yes vote will let him know what we think of his promises of “new” powers.
Thankfully the BBC has been banging the drum for there’s great new powers so I’m sure no one will be mislead about their true nature
12. New powers in relation to income tax
Shouldnt this be number 1 or is the fact it isnt an admission it means nothing.
So we’re so in love with Scotland, we won’t let use our pound, makes as much sense as whatever the hell kind of con Laboir in Scotland think they’re trying to pull.
Vote No for empty promises.
Vote Yes for full powers.
Tripe tripe and more tripe. Plenty for Blair McDougal to feast on.
Did anyone else notice that a lot of these are new powers for *Local councils*?
ie, cutting Hollyrood out.
The anti independence campaign really is getting tied in knots, telling some people one thing, whilst offering different things to others. It is full panic mode in Westminster right now, so much so, that we will have Ed Miliband and David Cameron flying up to Scotland tomorrow, to campaign together (thought they apparently won’t share a platform).
Take a look Scottish Labour voters, YOUR leader of the Labour party is campaigning with the leader of the Tory party. Still think they are socialists?
Bottom line is, that all we now have is a timetable for some meetings and reports. Why would anybody in the media take that seriously? It’s a joke.
@desimond
Morecameron & Unwise – they think they have the right points, just not necessarily in the right order.
All – Forward far and wide. We must not let any such nonsense gain any traction.
Send it to everyone you know. I don’t care if I get in 10 times as long as everyone gets it once.
Is the visit from the Westminster leaders to Scotland being funded by the taxpayers or by the No campaign?
Also note how there is not a chance in hell of Scotland getting anywhere near Scots oil devo, no way. They need Scots oil for giant infrastructure spends in England and London.
It is impossible for anyone to guarantee these non new powers will be implemented in the timetable outlined as the House of Lords can refuse to implement them or delay them or water them down.
BBC News says “another momentous day in Scotland”
We will get all the news soon from Westminster!
Says it all really.
12 old proposals dressed up as new.
Even a memory deficient goldfish could suss that.
Three Stooges Head Norf.
Angus Robertson currently stellar on Radio Scotland.
Not to forget that all of said ‘powers’ can be removed at the whim of even the un-elected HoL, as was the case with Scottish Renewable Energy powers in Dec 2013.
Kermit the Frog explains the ‘new powers’ offer.
link to youtube.com
I’ve just written to the problem page of the Daily Record. I can’t find the zip up the back of my head to allow me to enjoy the contents of their newspaper.
Best thing we can do is ignore them and just get on with it. Now lunch over and back to campaigning.
“DODGY DOSSIER” on flimsy EMANCIPATION for Scots.?
Lest we forget –
We all remember the other DODGY DOSSIER that murdered millions in SLAB`s Illegal War in Iraq in 2003.
Krash Gordon fails to understand that a fake promise of Devo-Max Plus was REJECTED by SLAB,mibbeland,BamCAM and Clegg only two years ago.
Struck from the Indy Ref – by all of them.
Now Krash is asking the dim and dumb to vote for a proposal that all Unionist Leaders Rejected – a proposal that is strategically MISSING from the Indy Ref Ballot.?
TRUST Krash with supplying maybe 10 per cent of EMANCIPATION for Scots – AFTER – he and his fellow SLAB scabs awarded 6,250 square miles of Scotland`s Ancient Inshore Fishery – to England.
TRUST Krash after he and his SLAB scab MP`s Shifted Passport Processing from Glasgow to Belfast in 2007 – ON the 300th Anniversary of the Act of Union of 1707.
NO-ONE,repeat, NO-ONE Votes for 10 per cent of EMANCIPATION.
NO-ONE VOTES FOR 10 PER CENT OF FREEDOM.
NEW as in NEW LABOUR! NEW FUTURE! NEW! NEW! NEW! what a load of shite. shite. shite. shite. This plutocracy has to be told to GTF! NFI’D! They are beyond a disgrace. I feel completely abused being spoken to by all these creeps as if I am a complete idiot. YES.
Marcia,
Agreed. This is all just one distraction, of no consequence at all. It just takes people away from the winning of voters for YES.
DCam & Milli are only coming
for the aged and the infirm of mind;
for mindless Labour voters
and the one or two undecided Loyalists;
for the hopelessly gullible,
and for any family up here and close personal friends.
May Dave & Ed enjoy their trip.
Two Unionists together – one blue, the other red.
They’ll both be red when it’s over.
“2. New powers in areas of transport
Devolution of railway powers to facilitate a “not for profit” option for ScotRail franchise.”
IS IT WORTHWHILE? It’s pointless as you would still have the current disjointed structure. And im practical – the Scottish Government would have to create a new not-for-profit body which would then need to spend £10m on a bid for the rail franchise. And completely missing the point – teh Scottish Government already has the power to use concessions instead of franchises (though one has to admit that their deicision to continue with a franchise, while risky, has so far worked out well).
And of course these will merely form a proposal to draft a bill.
Basically we’ve been offered and guaranteed precisely nothing. Which considering the fact postal voting is already underway is just as well. I mean we wouldn’t want to believe that the unionist parliamentarians are trying to shift the goalposts would we?
Clearly they believe we suffer from a short term memory problem.
The real worry about a NO win is if they are serious about pulling away what power and finances Holyrood has and giving it to City councils. Please god don’t let that ever happen. Here in Aberdeen the unionist council is not just an unspeakable bunch of spend thrifts, Aberdeen’s missed out on endless opportunities to really develop. The AWPR by-pass isn’t just 40 years too late, the delays have held back billions in economic growth and all down to a bunch slow eyed unionist troughers wasting a fortune on all the usual pointless business trips around the planet.
dressers of tripe!
D’ye think Brown suffers from constipation? He seems to be full of it.
@llly – that’s what worries me greatly.
Slab know it’s there only chance of power – all that wheeling and dealing and backstabbing and bullying behind closed doors and they are trying to sell that as democracy.
If JoLa can behave the way she does in public imagine her in private – I know, I know!
It would be like Stirling all over again where the 3 minority parties form a coalition to keep out the majority SNP
HUGE media coverage as if Gordon Browns timetable was some major announcement – Real federalism or Devo-Max..
The purdah rules wouldn’t matter – they would simply spin it as individual party announcements, not the UK government.
They obviously have NO intention of anything more than the useless ‘power’ to vary income tax already coming our way.
So they either think the UK media can fool the Scots with some fake ‘compromise’ offer, or we will still bottle it.
If we want genuine powers, we have to take them.
O/T(?) Advice please – This guy from ‘Windows’ keeps phoning me saying he could fix my computer. I’m not sure I believe him, but he keeps on telling me the same thing, so maybe he’s right after all? Or is he just a con-man?
By the way, this is what happens to devolved powers when Westminster suddenly decides they’d like them back, thank you very much:
link to newsnetscotland.com
So, vote for new devolved powers that aren’t really new, aren’t really powers, and which can be taken back at any time, or vote for independence and full control over all issues?
Hmmm, that’s a hard one.?
Some of the media questioning that followed the announcement by the Three Stooges was very good.
I wonder if BBC Scotland/London, STV, and Sky will have the guts and decency to remind Rennie, Davidson, and La Mont that there are NO ‘new powers’ on offer – just a possible timetable for discussing the existing offer.
Then it’ll be up to 540 England-based MP’s (AKA Westminster) – many/most of whom think Scotland already gets too much – to decide.
All very well, these new for old powers. BUT – the purse strings are not devolved. They stay in Wasteminster. So I can hear them tell us “But you have the power!” Yeah, but the budget cuts means we won’t have the money.
Any real change that Wasteminster does not like can be choked off by throttling the money supply…
link to nairnyes.wordpress.com
Re devolve to local authorities, we make sure the labour troughers are out by then.
Also see that Stu has tweeted that Broon is standing down not seeking re-election in 2015 GE. Must have missed that date on his time table
@Auld Sandy – is there anything wrong with your computer?
As far as I know they don’t phone you, you phone them.
I had a weird big blue page turn up on mine with a unhappy face saying we have detected a problem with your computer, we will restart it to fix problem, them a countdown appeared – I quickly switched it off and the on/off button.
As Fox Mulder would say – trust no-one.
You’ll need to do more than put your y-fronts on top Gordie to bring forth ‘more powers’.
‘cos we’re not listening to this shite anymore,we have better things to do.
Cancelling PMQ’s really shows us whose knickerbockers are in knots!.
Is Darling still in charge? Not seen him around today?
“Three Stooges Head Norf.”
lol, no panic !
Greetings from Raleigh, North Carolina. Maybe I’m missing the finer detail, but isn’t it the case that, no matter what the proposals are, all that Gordon Brown is offering is a debate in the HoC, if the Speaker agrees? In short, bugger all.
BBC News online still running with the lies
Scottish independence: What new powers might Scotland get?
Kermit the Frog explains the ‘New Powers’ offer.
link to youtube.com
(sorry mods forgot to remove http the first time)
He can say ANYTHING. He’s a backbencher who’s time has gone. If you believe this, you’ll believe anything.
And according to the Rev, he is stepping down and not standing for re-election in 2015 – in other words he can promise us the moon.
“So what the Record calls “12 new powers” are in fact 12 old ones we’ve known about since March.”
It is possible these idiots thought they could introduce real new powers in the final stages. It may even have been a plan. And, at the weekend it sounded like they were about to actually announce new powers.
If so, they overlooked purdah. They are pushing the envelop with their actions, but I believe they are stupid enough to have forgotten that it isn’t possible to rewrite their offer completely at the last minute!
More incompetence, thanksfully!
It there is a Yes win, I hope the history books reflect the hard work of ordinary Yes supporters, however I think it is a certainty history will record Better Together as a complete shambles!
So, are we to take it that Cameron will be in Scotland in the forthcoming days?
If so, when is he going to debate with Alec Salmond?
Cameron has no excuse if he’s emptied his diary!
Illy says:
Did anyone else notice that a lot of these are new powers for *Local councils*?
ie, cutting Hollyrood out.
I noticed that as well Illy. I am also wondering if this mass of *ahem* new powers for Labour run councils is a final admission from Labour that they will NEVER get back into power in Holyrood ever again!
There IS a god!
Are the three amigos coming to give Brown a cuddle so we can see the love in close up? Or are they hoping we egg them so they can claim we are insurgents and cancel the vote?
Lesley Anne
Then in a few years time the SNP take control of a number of councils and Labour start bitching about the powers councillors have. They are so short term in everything they do it beggers belief.
Gordon “Arthur Daley” Brown, Scotland’s very own dodgy wheeler-dealer. To borrow from the old US Democrat campaign targeting Richard Nixon : “Would YOU buy a used car from this man?”
I am just having one of those “thinking outside the box” moments here, don’t worry though folks I have already taken my meds so I should be O.K.
Everyone from t’other side keeps referring to these *ahem* powers as NEW powers. Now if this were the case we all know that this means that the three unionist parties/ Better whatsit/ Westminster have broken the purdah that is currently in place. However, we also keep getting told that these are NOT *cough* NEW powers but just an announcement of a timetable. Well, in my highly sought after view, someone is LYING!
If these are *ahem* NEW powers, which we all know they are not thanks to the great diligence of Stu, then the Electoral Commission MUST come down on these people like a ton of bricks. Don’t worry though folks the EC will not being doing this because the EC is a toothless,gumless wonder!
On the other hand if these are NOT *cough* NEW powers then our beloved media, BBC,STV,SKY etc MUST come down on these idiots like a ton of bricks asking them why they are all LYING to the electorate. Don’t worry though folks because like the EC the whole media circus is another fine example of toothless, gumless wizardry!
The last 24 hours on BBC television and radio has been
Dedicated to “blanket coverage” of a now “totally discredited”
No campaign.This latest “media outpouring” on behalf of the
London Westminster establishment is a complete and utter
“Affront” to democracy. The Scottish electorate must surely see these
People for what they are now ” individuals beneath contempt”
On 18th Sept we must “rid our country of these chancers FOR GOOD.
And vote yes for a return to our country’s CORE VALUES of social justice,
Decency and concern and help for people unable to look after themselves
In society.
Our country has never embraced the “metropolitan money grabbing
Greedy Thatcher philosophy “.lets move forward to a social democratic
Scotland on “our day” ( in court)
Auld Sandy says:
“guy from ‘Windows’ keeps phoning me saying he could fix my computer. Or is he just a con-man?”
Aye, Sandy he is a con man. Just hang up on him or if you are on the TPS (Telephone Preference Service) ask for his company name and threaten to report them. Ask to be removed from their contact list.
They are just trying to get access to your computer and/or information.
Are we watching The Record going through it’s Hillsborough moment.
when KRASH Gordon repeatedly regurgitates the same spiel, does that process qualify as – vomitting.?
Vomitting on his own SLAB scab voters will be nothing new to them.
Drool Fool.
@AuldSandy
It is a con. I do not have a windows computer. So I’ve had great fun with them on that matter. Asking them what operating system my computer is running if they know so much about it etc. Stringing them along for a change.
One tactic is to hit them in the karma, they are all young Indians, ask them if their mothers know they scam people for a living. They don’t like that.
Whatever you do DO NOT go to the website they suggest, it will load malware onto your computer. It may well be cryptolocker, what happens then is all your files and programs get encrypted and you have to pay them money for the decrypt key.
1979. Former Scottish PM wheeled out to promise more powers if Scotland says No.
2014. Former Scottish PM wheeled out to promise more powers if Scotland votes No.
Comical.
@ Auld Sandy its a con Sandy tell him to go bile his head ,all they want is access to your pc so they can create a back door to rob you,dont fall for it mate ,never give anybody access to your pc.
OK, so this is ‘Devo Nano’ reheated – nothing new at all – but it only represents the Labour position.
I’m mighty confused. With just over a week to go what, exactly, is the No campaign offering its voters? We’ve been hearing about this ‘guaranteed’, agreed package of ‘more powers’, but what is it?
‘You’ll maybe get the extra devolved powers proposed by Labour/the Tories [delete as applicable] if the UK happens to elect a Labour/Tory [delete as applicable] government, and they manage to get the legislation through both houses of the Westminster parliament’ isn’t really good enough – fortunately.
You are so right there HaS. Labour are incapable of seeing past the end of their nose. Where ever the nearest money trough is that is where you’ll find the Labour party. Where ever they can ignore the electorate the MOST that is where you’ll find the Labour party.
I really do hope that in 2016 the current crop of Labour councillors, M.S.P.’s are given a real kicking by the electorate for the disgusting way they have behaved.
@liz
@Auld Sandy – is there anything wrong with your computer?
As far as I know they don’t phone you, you phone them.
I had a weird big blue page turn up on mine with a unhappy face saying we have detected a problem with your computer, we will restart it to fix problem, them a countdown appeared – I quickly switched it off and the on/off button.
As Fox Mulder would say – trust no-one.
Arrgghhhh!
I had exactly the same thing, 3 times I closed it down and everytime I restarted same thing happened!!!
I’m using my wife’s computer now. How pathetic is that? This is why trolls are telling us we should be out knocking on doors. The comments on here with so many new readers since the WEE BLUE BOOK hit the street are winning many yes converts.
Democracy in the UK? You need to ask yourself that question.
Daily Record … ‘Scotland’s Champion’ … yeah only if it’s only a region situated in North Britain hence the championing of North Brit Brown the pension thief. As someone said on Twitter, Brown is stepping down as MP at the next election so he’s perfectly placed to promise everything and deliver nothing.
“Leaders in No vote trip to Scotland”
If I paid the trainfare, do you think they would bring Boris as well?
Perhaps they could stay over until the 13th and meet up with Nigel for a chinwag and a pint down the local.
Perhaps they can take in the splendour of the Orange Order parade.
Shame they missed the Edinburgh Book Festival though, works of fiction were well received!
Ye olde music hall acts coming soon to a town near you;
The magician, the illusionist and the ventriloquist.
As advertised by the BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION and the DAILY RECORD.
HEHEEHEE!
Gordon Brown is the new Alec Douglas Home.
So we get Dave Ed and the other one all up on a plane sitting apart from Nigel Farage in steerage. Should invite them to that Orange Walk for No voters. That should make them feel welcome. Who said politics south of the border was all the same?
Email just received from Yes Scotland
Dear Nana,
The so-called “action plan” cobbled together by the No campaign has been called out for what it is by the STUC – “a political fix”.
There is absolutely nothing new in what No is talking about and the parties still don’t agree on what powers Scotland should have.
So we need to remind voters that a No vote still means:
• No adequate protection for Scotland’s NHS against the knock-on effects of future English privatisation and cuts;
• No new job-creating powers for Scotland;
• We will definitely get more Tory governments we didn’t vote for.
Only with Yes will we have the full powers to make Scotland’s wealth deliver far more for the people who live here.
This weekend
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I wonder is the reach of Wings Over Scotland managing to extinguish this propaganda… Or are we being slaves to the tyranny of those who still buy the gutter press – and swallow all that is printed – 37/38 daily editions regional or national?
Yes for Alba,
Don
Gordon Brown has assumed the role of the bullying, abusive, serially lying partner who, when faced with the reality of the impending divorce, starts grovelling : “Things will be different…I’ll change, you’ll see…let’s talk about this”
Have some dignity Mr Brown, get off your knees, wipe away those crocodile tears and take a long hard look at what you and your dysfunctional Party have become and stand aside and allow your fellow Scots to forge a new future for themselves in an independent Scotland.
I know Gordon.. Your right.. All we have to do is subscribe to your vacuous promises and everything will be just fine.. (I love Jam. Don’t feel like any today. How about tomorrow Gordy.. would that suit?)
So if we do prescribe to your empty promises the City will react in kind and the terribly volatile market will recover and.. err.. hang on.. What’s that? Shares in RBS and Lloyds have recovered and are above the market price they were when Yes were reported at 51% ahead..
Oh well.. that’s fine. Just a blip then. It’s what shares do every day of the week. They go up and down, up and down. Bit like Westminster’s Treatment of Scotland. It’s been a very up and down relationship. Up when they want our resources, down when it comes to doing anything of any benefit.
They really are tripping over themselves to hang to us aren’t they? Flinging any old Sparkly Turd into the mix.
He really is a c**k.. (sorry, was my microphone still on..)
Somewhere a deluded Mags Curran ( did anyone see her salivating over Ed Balls in Aberdeen yesterday?) is screaming “Oh Cameron, Clegg and my lovely Ed are coming, this is a game changer!” and behind her the ghost of Robin Cook is wailing “The Games a-Bogey!”
Three of the horsemen on their way.
link to tinyurl.com
oh and here comes the fourth once he finds a pale mount.
link to tinyurl.com
@Skip – NC
Correcto.
Voting YES delivers the whole shebang, guaranteed, no question.
Voting no delivers a debate, some committees, loads of arguments amongst the parties who will all eventually deliver pretty much what they were going to deliver prior to the whole referendum.
That being, as little as they can get away with.
Why so many postal votes?
link to berwickshirenews.co.uk
NEW LABOUR
AULD ENEMY.
No form of devolution is meaningful if it results in the ultimate control of purse strings with a Laissez Faire/Neo Liberal government in Westminster. Conservative and Labour parties offer nothing other than this. Their shared policy trinity is – elimination of the public sphere, – total liberation of corporations to do their worst – skeletal social spending. In short, profit before people. This is why real Labour voters have been changing to Yes. Mr Brown has suggested nothing to change this. He does not have the power to change it in future regardless of his past performance which has been well highlighted elsewhere.
My personal preference for the term Neo Liberal is its alternative description “Reaganomics”, which better captures the inherent stupidity of the system. Come on Labourites! See the matter whole! Shoulders to the Common Weal.
Why is everyone suggesting that we should be inviting Cameron, Grommit, whatshisname and the political mirage along to the Orange parade thingy.
Haven’t you all heard THEY are leading the damned parade!
Thanks for all the advice. As far as I know there’s nothing wrong with my computer. Don’t know why Gordon Brown spouting the same old rubbish made me think of these scammers.
Only 1 of my fingers are working
link to encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com
Renowned ex spin doctor turned best selling crime thriller writer Quintin Jardine has cast his vote with an accompanying message to Gordon Brown.
link to quintinjardine.me
He,s a real nowhere man
living in his nowhere land
making up his nowhere plans
for nobody
(With apologies)
Lets all panic! Panic always helps.
I do hope we’re finally watching the death-rattle of the Westminster’s Empire.
Yeay, it was the Record that done it lol.
They’re raising a Saltire over Downing Street. Never mind Project Fear, I can smell fear. Hilarious.
I’ll be looking forward to the BBC covering this in such detail, this evening.
Does Watemonster not appreciate that they have broken the Union, with their anti-democratic behavior and rhetoric? Do they not comprehend respect and dignity?
@NanaSmith
Re: why so many postal votes
1. People working offshore/away from home.
2. People going on holiday. May without kids go now while the weather is still good but after English schools go back. So both cheaper and less aggro.
3. People in rural areas that live some distance from their polling place.
4. Sheer laziness allied with a desire to vote earlier than others to get it over with.
5. Idiots who actually think this seriously civilised referendum campaign will descend into violence and intimidation at polling places.
6. Variations and combinations of the above.
The Yes campaign will fail now.. Saltire just this second being raised at Westminster.. OMG can’t stop laughing
Sorry Downing Street!!
Donald
Canny find the zip at the back of my head either …help
Oh good grief..
The media is now running with ‘currency union incompatible’ says Carney
Auld Sandy
If your pc works fine tell then to bugger off. They are famous for finding faults. If you have a problem let me know and i will try to help ..FREE.
Westminster 2 Years ago
Okay, there must be something we can offer Jock
There isnt
Theres nothing?
Nothing
Offer them that then?
What nothing?
Yeah, we wrap it up nicely, they’ll never know till too late!
They’ll never buy it, lets file that idea under Plan B
Ahm waiting fur the White Flag over No.10……..
Heavy breathing, nail biting,
nose-picking, fly-catching,
stuck for a snappy noun;
taxing, oh taxing,
a micro-solution,
as UKOK brings on the clowns:
crossed lines in the sand
drawn by Davidson’s hand;
an unanswered query
for Lamont is leary;
a barrage of fear
when Farage draws near;
oh flip Morningside
where does Darling reside?
But worst, by a mile
that terrible smile
a smile from lugubrious Brown.
He didn’t seem to go so far as to suggest that he might actually turn up in westminster for these debates.
y’know, like what he’s paid to do.
YESGUY
I posted on the last article, not sure if u seen it. U had mentioned about some readers (including myself) getting frustrated and wound up.
Just wanted to day that I agree with u. We are all passionate about this campaign mate and agree that we can get carried away.
I appreciate your comments pal.
o/t @ thepnr check out a program called hitman pro its free for a month with no obligation to subscribe it can be downloaded onto a cd ,it might help clean up your virus ive had good results with it in the past.
I take it that Broon and Co have the full agreement of the 500 or so other MP’s plus full support in that unelected retirement home? It will vanish just like MH370.
Auld Rock
@Auld Sandy
It’s a con, Sandy. DON’T give them any information. Just hang up the phone.
A friend of mine got these scumbags phoning, telling him he had a virus on his computer and that they could remotely fix it for him. My friend, being very computer-savvy, went along with them for the ride. They told him to do this and do that to his PC. My friend then, jokingly, told them he did what they instructed and there was now smoke coming out of the computer–“What should I do now?” He kept them on the phone for ages (WITHOUT giving them his credit card details so that they could bill him for their **ahem** ‘service’) as it cost them a fair bit for the call.
When I get these pest calls I usually tell them that they have to speak to young Mr Grace who’s sleeping at the moment or I start talking to them about the Bible–the Book of Revelation usually has them scarpering pronto.
So NO–tell them to get lost and never to phone you again.
I saw the guy from the SUN being interviewed on the Daily Politics programme yesterday and he said in response to the question about WM being panicked by the latest poll that they were in FULL PANIC mode.
With the raising of the Saltire above Downing Street I think we now have confirmation, as if we actually needed confirmation, that YES indeed Westminster and Downing Street have hit the FULL PANIC mode button. Up until now no one outside of Scotland has actually realised just how panicked they all were. With the raising of the Saltire the whole WORLD now knows that WM and Downing Street are all panicked out!
I wonder how the money markets will react to the full announcement that WM has now adopted the FULL PANIC position. Everyone and their dogs from London media were desperately trying to blame the fall in the pound being wholly due to a probable YES win. I wonder what their *ahem* excuse will be today for the share prices RISING again today, probably something along the lines of Gordon Brown saves the world … AGAIN! maybe?
Just had a wee chuckle at the idea of Jim Murphy hearing Clegg, Cameron and Miliband are coming up to speak to the “huddled masses”
“But thats ma joab” whines wee Jim!
I just hope we get lovely coverage of people slow clapping the 3 Stooges as they play the lovebomb cards.
Lovebombs…more like stinkbombs.
Re my computer problems.
Tried a system restore. Won’t work, “there was a problem using system restore”
Tried PC Refresh. Won’t work, “there was problem using system refresh”
Nine days to go to win democracy back, next step is wipe the hard disk. Paranoid? Absolutely, shouldn’t I be?
Workmen hoisting Saltire above Downing Street. Half way up, it falls down.
That is an omen folks.
@Derek M
Cheers, will do.
dennis mclaughlin says:
Ahm waiting fur the White Flag over No.10……..
To be honest Dennis THAT was the flag they meant to hoist up the flag pole.
The guy in charge of flying flags from flag poles, not very bright you understand, was told to run up the flag of SURRENDER. However, as I said, he isn’t all that bright and asked which flag was the flag of SURRENDER. He was told it was the one with WHITE on it. Unfortunately for him the first flag he came across that had WHITE on it was the SALTIRE!
@gillie
Reminds me also of wonderful Flag Day by The Housemartins
Too many hands in too many pockets
Not enough hands on hearts
Too many ready to call it a day
Before the day starts
So you thought you’d like to see them healed
Got Blue Peter to stage an appeal
For the poor, for the poor
It’s a waste of time if you know what they mean
Try shaking a box in front of the queen
’cause her purse is fat and bursting at the seams
It’s a waste of time if you know what they mean
Flag day, flag day, flag day
Those three aren’t coming up here tomorrow to sway a referendum. They know that individually and collectively they’re about as popular as a fart in a space suit. They’re coming up here with a general election in mind. Just so they can say ‘well I did my bit to defend the union’. They’re looking to head off calls for heads to roll.
Its becoming farcical, saltire over downing street, what next
shortbread and compulsory kilt wearing.
To be fair Macart, a fart in a spacesuit IS actually useful. Remember out in space it is rather cold and as farts generally are warm they can double as extra “central heating” in your spacesuit for a wee while.
The three, or is it FOUR Stooges who are making their way Norf tomorrow are about as useless as … well let’s not go there O.K.
Will David Cameron be forced to eat a fries Mars bar and drink some Bucky to be seen as being one of us?
Oh the horror. Eton obviously never prepared Cameron for this.
Whatever happens on the 18th and I hope to God it is a victory for common sense and YES, we MUST MUST MUST set up a Scottish newspaper. It needs to be on the shelves in shops across the country to counter the lies of the trash who have been claiming to be a free press. I will be happy to support such a paper and it is clearer than ever that Scotland has the writers, women and men, to illuminate what needs to be done to renew Scotland in the 21st century.
Labour councils getting more powers
That will be the same Labour council that did such a good job on Edinburgh trams. They where hopeless and SG had to jump in and sort it.
Steve BOY.
No problems my friend. Just like everyone else we get angry and frustrated. All of us. But there are new posters and many lurkers here. keep calm and they join in.
Look at some of the comments just now. I’m having a great laugh reading them. This site is pretty much like that. And it attracts the ” Shy YES voter” if they see the jokes and brilliant retorts.
It’s going to be a long 9 days.
Les Wilson, Croompenstien, Thpnr, lesley-Anne , Onwards, grouse and McCart . Need your jokes to keep me sane.
More of the same please
Just waiting for their lurve in to start. Should be good entertainment LA.
Raising Saltires for a day over Downing street and English councils.
What patronising guff.
We can raise the Saltire over a sovereign Scottish parliament FOREVER.
Edinburgh castle too for that matter.
And all over the world, whenever Scotland competes as a normal country in any international event.
What a boost for tourism that will be..
Question to the leaders of the parasite parties +big Gordy
Will oil revenues be devolved to Scotland?
Just watched Ed Miliband on BBC News, if we fall for this pish, then we really are too stupid.
@YESGUY
Then have a wee look over on WGD too.
Tamson says:
“1979. Former Scottish PM wheeled out to promise more powers if Scotland says No”
YES, very relevant to the situation we find ourselves in now.
The 1979 devolution offer was not a cross party affair, it was a Labour offer. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, former Tory PM, promised voters that if the devolved assembly then on offer was rejected, a stronger devolution package would be offered by the Tories.
He lied. Nothing was offered, far less delivered.
The relevance to 2014 is that Scots once voted NO on the basis of empty promises. Not again, surely?
No one should take the risk of believing a former UK PM now! Vote Yes and get real powers!
What I hope for is that come 18th September all the anger that is flowing through the Scottish populace at this moment follows thorugh to the Polling Booths and people put their mark in the YES Box.
What really annoys me as a staunch Royalist who is voting for Independence is this. Brown lies through his teeth, Milliband allows Brown to speak on behalf of Labour and Cameron is wetting himself in case Independence is voted for and he is being asked to involve the Queen in a mess which is not of her making.
I work for the Yes Campaign. I deliver in my area. There is Yes Posters everywhere. And a great grass roots . The people on my area are more Yes than No. And yet we get no honest Media or BBC reporting. I feel like my Country Scotland is in Prison. It’s not allowed to have its side told unless it’s on line. Not everyone in this great Country has access to WiFi or OnLine. They rely on the supposed to be people’s paper the Daily Record. Which I never Buy. But the people do . They have no way of getting the truth. Especially the elderly and Disabled. I am constantly being asked when is my No people coming round as they only see me. What do I say there is no No campaign it’s all bused up from over the border students getting paid by Westminster to come here and deliver leaflets for £8.00- 25.00. Depending on what they are doing. It is Shocking. The way the ordinary man and woman in Scotland are being treated. Yes for Independence.
gillie says:
Will David Cameron be forced to eat a fries Mars bar and drink some Bucky to be seen as being one of us?
Oh the horror. Eton obviously never prepared Cameron for this.
But it has prepared him for what Boris is going to do to him on the 19th !!
Thepnr.
Go on youtube buddy and look for – “Restore to factory settings” . Watch the video and it will take the pc back to when it was first out the box. You will lose any info but if it’s that bad it might be worth doing. If i was closer i would check it out myself. Sorry bud.
Nuisance calls.
Used to get them despite being ex-dir and CP. Last time I changed my phone base, after several weeks I noticed that although pre-recorded message was set to english it was in fact in french.
I also noticed that I had had far less annoying calls, in fact they are now pretty rare.
Maybe having a different language removes you from their lists?
@ Calls from “windows”
Total con.
First off, they’d be identifying themselves as from “Microsoft”, or far more likely, “A Microsoft Partner” if they were legit.
Second, Microsoft doesn’t call you, they *like* having your computer be buggy as hell, it helps them sell their new version with “less bugs”.
Ways to get rid of them:
I like that one about asking if their mothers know they con people for a living.
Personally I just tell them I run Gentoo (one of the more involved Linux flavours), and they stopped calling me.
Telephone Preference Service doesn’t do much good, since they’re normally based in India or somewhere else out of reach, so it can’t really do anything to them.
That Blue Screen with countdown:
Sounds like you’ve been trojaned. I’d grab a Linux LiveCD and have a good look through the machine from the safe boot environment to find what did it (MS *still* haven’t gotten Windows to boot from a CD yet). And turn off all the obvious security holes that Windows leaves open by default.
(OK, no, I wouldn’t, I’d grab an external hard drive, grab a copy of the dead machine’s hard drive so I didn’t lose any data, then wipe the machine clean and install a Linux, flavour dependent on user (Fedora’s good for beginners))
I stopped paying attention to most (non-social-engineering) security issues when I switched to Linux, so sorry I can’t be more help.
What I am finding absolutely hilarious is that we have these three Stooges, possibly four, coming to Scotland in full blown PANIC PLUS mode. They are supposed to be the leader and wannabe leader’s of one of the *ahem* greatest powers in the world. What sort of image do you think they are all giving to the world when they are seen to all be in PANIC PLUS mode?
I can just imagine the next Security Council meeting in New York when the U.K. rep walks in.
“What are you doing here mate, you look lost.”
“No I always come here, I’m the U.K. rep.”
“Oh right. Well we’ve had a wee meeting you see and to be quite frank WE have all decided that we no longer want you in our little club.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well it’s like this. You know when you hit your PANIC PLUS button last week.”
“Yes”
“Well how do you think that made US look?”
“What do you mean?”
“How do you think the rest of the world sees US now after you hitting that button?”
“But we had to. We had to save the union.”
“Screw you pal. Screw your pathetic wee union. We only allowed you into our club because you had a couple of toy nukes on loan from your Uncle Sam. You’ll now be returning them to your uncle so you are OUT!”
“But…”
“No buts you are OUT. Good bye!”
Does Ed think he will get a better reception in the streets with Dave to hold his hand?
For me, the acid test (of any proposal re powers) is this.
Will Scotland have all control of all of Scotland’s money ?
Yes or No.
I know what I do with the unionist Daily Record, when I run out of toilet paper.
The three amigo’s (Cameron Clegg and Miliband) will be in Scotland tomorrow, spewing their double speak, I was hoping they’d appear together so we could see the head of the Hydra,but the sneaky toffs,are appearing in different parts of Scotland.
I hope these corrupt sirens are flash mobbed by Yes supporters.
Ohhh …. a Lord has stated – they do not agree with any rushed bills being put through parliament and will vote against them because they will be hurriedly debated – there ya have it – any new promises no matter what will be rejected by the lords.
With Cameron announcing he is not doing PMQs and coming to Scotland instead, Hope someone (hint) asks him if he agrees with Ruth Davidson that the Tories have no chance of winning the next general election. Would make a good opener.
Here we go again.. SKY news just now.
Gordon Brown getting more ‘unbiased’ air time in front of a selective audience.
How come the Yes side isn’t getting this air time? Oh yeah maybe because we don’t need to keep digging a hole for ourselves
Doing the math, devolving housing benefit and attendance allowance would leave Westminster with 87% of Scotland’s welfare/benefit spending decisions, and devolving the totality of income tax (not even being proposed by Labour or the Tories) along with the already devolved council tax, business rates, stamp duties and landfill tax would still leave Westminster in control of over 70% of Scottish tax revenues. And, that is what unionist politicians, and the media including the BBC, are calling devo-max, a federalist approach and even home rule. Fraud and corruption from Westminster – lazy journalism and compliance with the British establishment by the media, and particularly the BBC – no change there. But, it won’t be forgotten.
@arthur thomson says:
Whatever happens on the 18th and I hope to God it is a victory for common sense and YES, we MUST MUST MUST set up a Scottish newspaper. It needs to be on the shelves in shops across the country to counter the lies of the trash who have been claiming to be a free press. I will be happy to support such a paper and it is clearer than ever that Scotland has the writers, women and men, to illuminate what needs to be done to renew Scotland in the 21st century.
Exactly.
It is a miracle we have got so far with the biased media.
The headlines yesterday, screaming from every news-stand, made me want to vomit.
I know the internet is taking over, but print copies act as free political billboards and advertising over the country.
That’s why they will exist for a long time yet, and will eventually be subsidised and given away at cost price, or for free.
How good would it be to see a paper copy of Wings available at train and bus stations all over Scotland?
Anyone know if the YES campaign has a free newspaper planned during the last week ?
I remember the SNP had a similar initiative before.
Are there enough Subway outlets in Scotland to handle this panicky invasion?
I’m trying my best YESGUY.
Oh NOOOO!
NOT the lurve in Macart. I cannae dae it Captain, the lurve in is daen too much damage. I’ll hae to stop ma engines an restart them in lurve in mode!
John Russell says:
What really annoys me as a staunch Royalist who is voting for Independence is this. Brown lies through his teeth, Milliband allows Brown to speak on behalf of Labour and Cameron is wetting himself in case Independence is voted for and he is being asked to involve the Queen in a mess which is not of her making.
You obviously missed the discussion that we were having the other night on Wings John. From what you are saying it would appear that both David Cameron nor the queen have received my e-mail yet. This is a wee bit disturbing. Think I’ll have to resend it.
Basically John the e-mail informs Cameron and the queen that as of the 19th she is no longer queen o Scots … I AM!
Gordon telling lies on Sky again. I never knew how big uncertainty was. No he is not wearing a sheet with two eye holes but he would be as well if he had.
Seems all three main parties have agreed his timetable.
New powers better than Independence….Aye right.
Let’s carry on until voting day for a YES.
It is mental, the unionists are doing and saying anything to keep Scotland restrained and tied up, and if we say No, they will then kick the crap out of us.
If we don’t vote Yes, you can bet your bottom dollar they will never let us forget it.
I can’t believe that the MSM are allowed to keep holding these ‘meetings’ and letting the No campaign just air their views to everyone.. unbelievable!!
Any parliamentary bill has to go to the House of Lords to be approved. An unelected set of nobody’s can still reject any offer or promise offered.
Can anyone remember blackadder the 3rd when he claims with glee “this bill will never be allowed to go through by the lords”
@ Lesley-Anne
I wonder how long the lurve in would last if you asked each of them in turn if they agreed with the devo proposals mooted by the others?
It would be carnage within five minutes.
I love your confidence that their lurve in would last as long as 5 minutes Macart. I wouldn’t give it 5 seconds.
I feel like singing some Phil Collins – join in everyone.
“Can you feel the love tonight”
Independent Countries since 1900
1901 – Australia
1902 – Cuba
1903 – Panama
1905 – Norway
1907 – New Zealand
1910 – South Africa
1912 – Albania
1917 – Finland
1918 – Estonia
1918 – Poland
1918 – Iceland
1919 – Afghanistan
1921 – Ireland
1922 – Egypt
1923 – Turkey
1929 – Vatican City
1932 – Saudi Arabia
1932 – Iraq
1943 – Lebanon
1945 – Korea
1945 – Korea
1945 – Indonesia
1945 – Vietnam
1946 – Syria
1946 – Jordan
1947 – Pakistan
1947 – India
1948 – Burma
1948 – Sri Lanka
1948 – Israel
1949 – Laos
1949 – Bhutan
1951 – Libya
1953 – Cambodia
1956 – Sudan
1956 – Morocco
1956 – Tunisia
1957 – Ghana
1957 – Malaysia
1958 – Guinea
1960 – Cameroon
1960 – Senegal
1960 – Togo
1960 – Congo
1960 – Somalia
1960 – Madagascar
1960 – Benin
1960 – Niger
1960 – Burkina Faso
1960 – Cote d’Ivorie
1960 – Chad
1960 – Central African Republic
1960 – Congo
1960 – Cyprus
1960 – Gabon
1960 – Mali
1960 – Nigeria
1960 – Mauritania
1961 – Sierra Leone
1961 – Kuwait
1962 – Samoa
1962 – Burundi
1962 – Rwanda
1962 – Algeria
1962 – Jamaica
1962 – Trinidad and Tobago
1962 – Uganda
1963 – Kenya
1964 – Tanzania
1964 – Malawi
1964 – Malta
1964 – Zambia
1965 – Gambia
1965 – Maldives
1965 – Singapore
1966 – Guyana
1966 – Botswana
1966 – Lesotho
1966 – Barbados
1968 – Nauru
1968 – Mauritius
1968 – Swaziland
1968 – Equatorial
1970 – Tonga
1970 – Fiji
1971 – Bangladesh
1971 – Bahrain
1971 – Qatar
1971 – United Arab Emirates
1973 – Bahamas
1973 – Guinea-Bissau
1974 – Grenada
1975 – Mozambique
1975 – Cape Verde
1975 – Comoros
1975 – Sao Tome and Principe
1975 – Papua New Guinea
1975 – Angola
1975 – Suriname
1976 – Seychelles
1977 – Djibouti
1978 – Solomon Islands
1978 – Tuvalu
1978 – Dominica
1979 – Saint Lucia
1979 – Kiribati
1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1980 – Zimbabwe
1980 – Vanuatu
1981 – Antigua and Barbuda
1981 – Belize
1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis
1984 – Brunei
1986 – Marshall Islands
1986 – Micronesia
1990 – Lithuania
1990 – Namibia
1990 – Yemen
1991 – Georgia
1991 – Croatia
1991 – Slovenia
1991 – Kyrgyzstan
1991 – Russia
1991 – Belarus
1991 – Moldova
1991 – Azerbaijan
1991 – Uzbekistan
1991 – Latvia
1991 – Macedonia
1991 – Tajikistan
1991 – Armenia
1991 – Turkmenistan
1991 – Ukraine
1991 – Kazakhstan
1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina
1993 – Czech Republic
1993 – Slovakia
1993 – Eritrea
1994 – Palau
2002 – East Timor
2006 – Montenegro
2006 – Serbia
2008 – Kosovo
2011 – South Sudan
—————-
2014 – Scotland
Any Nimmo
Having stopped reading Quentin Jardine books because of some nasty remarks about the SG and his general right-wing views, I misunderstood your post.
I opened the link anyway and was pleasantly surprised to read that he voted Yes, albeit with some reservations. If QJ votes Yes perhaps there are more well-off people than I thought who would look at the bigger picture and vote for a fairer society.
Sorry ANDY
Brown’s prime-ministerial hand-gestures are a joy. The sad sod actually believes he’s PM again. Like some sad old actress reliving former glories: No more boom and bust! I saved the world! Oh, my public! My public!
The Saltire being raised over Downing Street, or maybe not!
WARNING!
This has commentary by Kay Burley!
link to tinyurl.com
Never mind, as I said earlier today by Thursday, this tirade will have slackened and the YES will have recalibrated the debate.
The noise from down South London town will be ebbing a little.
The real debate is within Scotland and those eligible to vote, they will, in the main, see this for what it is panic!
Dave and Ed will fly in, lay an egg, disappear and YES will be a few more votes to the good.
Oh! Now the question on the ballot is wrong! Too late Davy agreed it was fine and so did Ruthie.
Pat Cox, former Pres. European Parliament ‘the eu…have always and only ever been enablers of the democratic will of the people.
Just said on Sky
Andy , well done with your list. And to think none of these countries has a currency, they are all bankrupt by now and their borders all have armed guards . I also noticed they are all queuing up to give up their independence as they preferred to be governed by someone else.
Sorry, but I just had to.
Chumbawamba – We Don’t Want To Sing Along
link to youtube.com
Goldfinger, he’s the man, the man with midas touch
A spider’s touch – such a cold finger
Beckons you, to enter his web of sin, but don’t go in
Golden words he will pour in your ear
But his lies can’t disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he’s kissed her
It’s the kiss of death, from Mr. Goldfinger
Pretty girl, beware of his heart of gold
This heart is cold, golden words he will pour in your ear
But his lies can’t disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he’s kissed her
It’s the kiss of death, from Mr. Goldfinger
Pretty girl, beware of his heart of gold
This heart is cold, he loves only gold
Only gold, he loves gold
He loves only gold, only gold
He loves gold
Sorry, the list was by Wee Alex.
From Quintin Jardine blog linked above:
“When Douglas Alexander, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, speaks of imaginary economic problems, he shows why his colleagues are said to have christened him ‘Rain Man’; he has difficulty connecting with reality.
‘Rain Man’ works for me. That’s his name now.
Lesley-Anne
Even the flag will not be tamed lol
Priceless!!!!
Trouble at Westminster mill.
Both the House of Commons Speaker John Bercow and Conservative MP Christopher Chope have demanded that ministers inform the house of what new powers Scotland is being promised.
David Cameron is facing a back-bench rebellion.
@Lesley-Anne
Ha Ha! salty doesn’t want to fly at No 10.
You couldn’t make that up.
So, a wee bit of Seagull Management coming from Westminster.
They will fly in, make lots of noise, eat all the food (usually), lay an egg, cr*p on everyone and then fly out again.
link to nairnyes.wordpress.com
Power devolved is Power retained….
Self Rule is better than Home Rule
As Home Rule means English Rule
Agree to it now —It will be for ever.!!
The three amigos are riding into Scotland tomorrow, Cameron, Clegg, and Miliband Westminster’s finest word warriors intent to overwhelm the Scot’s with wicked logic and unmatched sublime offers. Although they consider themselves heavily armed they may be approached as they are only firing blanks
What I am finding absolutely hilarious is that we have these three Stooges, possibly four, coming to Scotland in full blown PANIC PLUS mode.
Coming soon:
PANIC MAX
call me dave says:
Dave and Ed will fly in, lay an egg, disappear and YES will be a few more votes to the good.
Oh NOOO!
The three, or four, Stooges are coming to Scotland to deliver and EGG! Does Murph the Smurph know about this *ahem* egg delivery?
Are Murph the Smurph’s *cough* security team on full alert for this special egg delivery?
Is Murph the Smurph having an all night omelette party and this is his special egg delivery?
The Lawyers’ Debate
The lawyers’ debate will feature academics, advocates and solicitors from both sides of the debate and consider the consequences for the law, legal system and legal profession if Scotland becomes independent. Lawyers for YES: Joanna Cherry QC, Prof Aileen McHarg, Brandon Malone. Lawyers Together: Prof Adam Tomkins, Claire Mitchell, Mike Dailly.
Should be lively and I wonder how Mr Dailly with his list is getting on.
@Thepnr – I left mine switched off for a couple of days and used my daughter’s computer.
It seems alright now but I am certain it was someone try to look in.
LOL – white flag over Downing St!
Giving all this airtime to one side MUST be breaking the rules.
Newsnet Scotland are good at this sort of stuff.
I don’t have an account on there but someone could suggest to them to see if the EU should be getting involved.
Keep playing the clip with the Saltire trying to escape from Downing Street’s mast, so funny.
That’s a sign.. we will win this!!!
Isn’t this PANIC MAX mode that Westminster has gotten itself into absolutely brilliant!
I agree with both you Stevie and CMD the Saltire *ahem* incident atop number 10 is priceless. If there was ever a heads up moment in the whole campaign that had to be it. It really says it all about the union when even the Saltire refuses to be run up the flag pole at number 10.
Thing is CMD, if we did make this up no one would have believed us!
piggy says:
9 September, 2014 at 2:20 pm
Ye olde music hall acts coming soon to a town near you;
The magician, the illusionist and the ventriloquist.
As advertised by the BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION and the DAILY RECORD.
HEHEEHEE!
UPDATE
NEWSFLASH…..HARRY POTTER is reported to be appearing also.
Lesley-Anne
Priceless. The Saltire doesn’t want to go up – there. Live on telly and they can’t get the flag up . I’m laughing so much my belly hurts.
OMS
Lesley-Anne
Yeah they would have said it was some angry nationalist pulling at the thread to cause havoc
Listening to Douglas Alexander on the radio this morning he was positively gloating over the fact that millions as he put it had been wiped from the value of some companies and as he sees it peoples pensions. Blair Jenkins was very poor and let the little patronising shit get away with his blatant lies. He at least could have pointed out that it was one Gordon Brown as the failed chancellor who did more damage to pensions than any one with his tax raids, and the scrapping of the 10p tax rate. I’m now nursing a very sore hand as I slapped the radio very hard, and it exploded down the steps of the wheehouse to lie dead on the deck. I must get a Dougie Alexander punch bag. What a patronising oleaginous lying shit he is.
I watched the Brown spiel on Sky and found his guff peppered with complete lies, some outrageous
Also noted that his crap was frequently peppered with ‘Nationalist’, ‘SNP’ and ‘Alex Salmond’ Brown really hates Alex Salmond!
And that ladies and gentlemen is a mistake, if your trying to put a point forward, never attack someone or a group by name on such a frequent basis
At the end of the Sky piece the new political editor was almost objective, as you could tell that he witnessed crap
The interesting thing about Cameron, Clegg and Miliband coming up is they refuse to appear together, they wont even travel together. None of that cross party love-in nonsense for the real General Election politicos now
As for Johann, Ruthie and Wullie this morning…well say no more but the Human Centipede movie does springs to mind.
@ Colin Church says:
9 September, 2014 at 1:31 pm
Angus Robertson currently stellar on Radio Scotland.
Only heard last five minutes when he was fine until an open goal was presented by John Beattie: “In the last 30 seconds….why do you think they(BT)are so keen to keep us?”
Instead of mentioning the need to keep our oil revenues etc.to avoid a run on the pound, all we got from Angus was some platitudes about ” I’ve no doubt that there are many on the BT side who are absolutely sincere in their desire to keep the UK together”. 30 seconds up and a(nother) wasted opportunity to ram home to folk what this is really about. Hardly stellar, in my opinion.
OT. My folks received a leaflet from someone called save the union based in Glenrothes. They’re not registered with the electoral commission that I can see. Anyone know if they should be if they want to distribute leaflets?
This has got to be a wind up, you mean they’re ACTUALLY raising the Saltire over Downing St? That it’s not as I initially assumed just some kind of joke doing the web rounds?
J H Christ, what, in their idiotic panic and desperation will they try to pull next?
Full blown riot at oo parade Sep 13th perhaps, with bt plants posing as Yes supporters causing trouble?
The bad news I think, is that Brown is putting himself up for daily ‘meeting’s’ which, because the media are like they are, will get daily coverage.
Plus add to that Cameron, Militurd and Clegg, we will end up with wall to wall coverage (which is their intention) on a daily basis all the way to polling day. They are basically pushing the YES campaign of the tv screens
So its now more important than ever to utilise the internet, to get around the wall of shit
I think I have sussed out why the Saltire refused to go up Downing street’s flag pole. It was the WRONG Saltire ya numpties! THIS is the Saltire that you should have been raising. DOH!
link to tinyurl.com
balaaargh
Yes anyone or any group publishing leaflets and distributing for a cause during the run up to polling have to be registered
Normally it should say in very small print on the bottom of the leaflet
Report them
@liz
I couldn’t even use system restore from safe mode. Used PC Restore to basically reset to factory settings. Difference from system restore is that all your programs are wiped but at least your personal files, photos ect are left alone
It was that wee miserable face that done it for me
Definite tampering and I am pissed at that!
Have they really put a saltire over Downing Street?
If so then then they do not have an adequate sense of the ridiculous.
This is from the Guardian:
The three UK leaders are to appear at separate events in their party’s core areas to rouse their own voters, party sources have told the Guardian’s Severin Carrell.
He says that Nick Clegg is due to visit the Borders – a stronghold for the Liberal Democrats.
Cameron, Clegg and Miliband “will be taking the campaign to their own voters, that’s all that matters now. Labour has a job to do, the Lib Dems have a job to do and so do the Tories,” said one Lib Dem.
The job was to “reinvigorate their base, particularly those who thought this wasn’t going to be a reality. They’re going to have to strain every sinew to win this, which is a good thing.”
What a farce!
@Hen Broon – it really is disappointing – they need to up their game.
Anyone of us would have said – No doubt Mr Alexander you are now very pleased that all shares are back to the level they were before the fall.
This is coming down to a straight fight for the wavering Scottish labour voter. Will they stay or will they go over to YES.
The whole ball game might be up for grabs and it’s up to everyone to encourage the Labour for Independence movement to do well and support their message when out and about.
Many labour folk will balk at the thought of going to YES but they will surely see that in an independent Scotland there will be an opportunity to get a proper opposition in place to fight for their values.
baulk (the verb)
Edward @ 4.03
If they actually do simply block ALL Yes commentary from the MSM and have nothing else but pro bt crap from now till the 18th, how do you/we think that will affect those who still watch msm “news” etc?
Will it piss off enough of them to backfire or would it work in shaking the resolve of some weaker, softer Yessers?
Fiona
Yes they have and they’ve also called for Saltires to be flown all over England.
Do you think, when they’re all up here turning on the charm, we should all march into England and take over Westminster
Just a thought.
Just had quick look at Referendum Live. I’m picturing Laurel and Hardy. This is unbelievable.
No sensible person is listening to their rubbish. I have been three different places this morning (including my bank and its unanimous staff) in which the overwhelming sentiment has been “Do they think we are all stupid?”
My local Sikh grocer just agreed that they are now shitting themselves in public
Dave McEwan Hill says:
My local Sikh grocer just agreed that they are now shitting themselves in public
Not a pretty sight I can tell you!
( no not your Sikh grocer DMH the other thingy 
)
So, odds on the kilt-wearer being Cameron or Clegg, or both? sorry just can’t imagine Milliboid in one, but then again, stranger things have certainly happened over the last few days
Only a couple of months ago they wouldn’t even let the Red Arrows release the colours of the Saltire over the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.. now it’s being lifted above Downing Street!
They really do thinker are all mugs.
Notice that it’s turned into the Labour Vote No campaign? All red and yellow. That’s at least the third rebrand. Where’s Darling? Brown now de-facto leader of No according to the Mail. Someone thinks he’s popular. So popular he wasn’t in charge to start with.
Re the flag raising when did the BBC do Dadl’s Army in colour?
Just saw the latest BT advert on the BT facebook page, it’s on TV tonight. No patronising lady, just patronising Gordon Brown.
It’s just an advert for the Labour Party, even managed to get grainy video footage of John Smith and Donald Dewar into it. Hope there were no Tory or Lib Dem people donated to it.
As I informed Sky news last night TYRAN, Gordon Brown is as popular in Scotland as someone having the desire for Mumps, Chickenpox and Measles all at the same time!
Dave McEwan
Snap!! Funnily enough I’m just home from my wee local shop where I usually chat to the shopkeeper about the campaign and the first thing he said time was ‘they are really panicking now eh?’
You’re right, no-one is being taking in by this garbage (except the No camp).
Makes you laugh
AuldSandy
This is how to deal with a telemarketer
link to hark.com
Thepnr
I have separate hard drives for my system and data. That way I can re-install the system without loosing any data. If that isn’t an option for you, what about partitioning your hard drive? It essentially does the same, so you can re-install systems without data loss.
When if ever! was the Saltire flown on the Downing St flag pole,anybody know the answer to that question.
The only time I can remember, sort of, Ronnie is St. Andrews day, I think.
They’re just playing it for laughs now, hoping to get a vote from people with a love of the absurd and ridiculous.
TYRAN – I’ve been wondering where Flipper is too. Are the Three Amigos from London being sent up to wipe up Flipper’s mess?
@CameronB Brodie
Yes will be doing that, and forget Windows. I’m moving to Linux.
Woops!
CEO of Kingfisher, owner of B & Q, has come out with the old mantra that Scottish consumers will face higher prices after a YES vote. Hmm. I’m thinking there will be a sudden sharp drop in their sales figures when this *ahem* threat is spread about a bit.
If you want to get your dander up it’s worth watching last night’s edition of Newsnight where the whole programme was devoted to the referendum. Tom Devine was pitted against Neil Ferguson a Scottish ex pat based in the USA.
I have never seen Tom Devine get so animated, but it’s not surprising when the other guy claimed that an independent Scotland would be like Belarus. A totally obnoxious guy.
The woman on the programme wasn’t much better but Devine managed to tell both exactly what he thought of their opinions.
The discussion starts at around 38 minutes in.
link to bbc.co.uk
08092014
On my old laptop Thepnr I had the hard drive partitioned. One part used Windows 7 and Linux on the other. I usually used Linux but I needed Windows to run my flight sim and airline sim. My new laptop arrived with Windows 8 on it and I can not partition it or even just wipe Windows 8. I have no way of getting Linux onto my computer. Linux is a far superior operating system in my view.
Lets’ keep focussed a few more days – don’t presume anything – just keep taking up YES!
Best,
Don
@Alan Gerrish
Posted before he finished but with radio on in background he did capture the complete panic in WM and BT – “smelling the fear” he said. Until then picture painted of Scotland quietly contemplating a thoughtful offer from BT, just a matter of time until it seeps in and we come to our senses and vote NO.
O/T-ish; I don’t know if anyone else has posted a response from the Electoral Commission re the breach of purdah and electoral rules by Westminster. But I’d emailed the Electoral Commission about it and got a response today and thought it should be seen by as many people as possible because it’s frightening that any so called democracy could have a situation like this.
I’ve posted the full text of the email below but basically it just says that the EC have no regulatory powers over Westminster’s activities and Westminster are not bound by the Referendum Act anyway. So I’m guessing that means there will be no purdah period for Westminster as there are no controls. They say they have no powers over the Scottish Government either but I have no doubt if the Scottish Government did what Westminster have done the MSM and Westminster would be screaming bloody murder. Anyway, here’s the full email if you want to read it:
The Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013 (the Act) gives the Electoral Commission responsibility for regulating campaign spending and donations.
The Commission has no powers to regulate the activities of either the Scottish or the UK Governments. However, Schedule 4, para 26(2) places restrictions on certain Scottish public bodies on publishing material related to the referendum in the 28 days before the poll. The UK Government are not bound by the Act but have undertaken to adhere to the same restrictions.
You can find a factsheet that we have produced on the public bodies and referendum material here link to electoralcommission.org.uk. This includes the contact details you need with regard to any concerns you may have about the activities of either the Scottish Government (cabinet_secretariat@scotland.gsi.gov.uk) or the UK Government (Proprietyðicsteam@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk).
Rhys Cisuelo
Public Information Support
The Electoral Commission
Tel: 029 2034 6802
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk
ticktock
I hope that it does backfire
I’m getting fed up with the one sided coverage by the MSM
and am hoping that the soft yes and undecided also see it for what its worth
@Jwil – OMG – that Niall Ferguson bloke has a face you would never tire of ‘kissing’ – in case I get accused of being a rabid indy Yes.
How much time was that guy given to witter on and that women fronting the prog kept interrupting Tm Devine.
When read that Kirsty it raises one question.
What the hell is the point of the Electoral Commission exactly?
Biggest bunch of toothless, gumless, gutless feart wonders on planet Earth I reckon.
Saltire might have flown when Murray won Wimbledon tennis but not sure. It was promised, well did he keep his promise?
Salmond calls out Clegg and Cameron as untrustworthy but not Miliband or Brown.
Aye OK Mr Salmond.
Hoi Dave, we cannae see yer flag fae here, naebody wi’ a vote can.
But we can look outside out windows and drive along our streets and see 10,000 Yes saltires flying proudly, everywhere. You might catch them tomorrow.
Do hang about for yer pals in the Lodge and that nice Monsieur Farage at the weekend
Correction St Andrews day Nov 2013
We were getting love bombed so saltire was raised.
The patronising 3 Amigos offer nothing new, and are likely to be even less popular in Alba than Gordon ‘ pensions thief’ Brown. You also need to ignore Carwyn Jones who’s up there from Wales – we take no notice of him here in Wales, hopefully you’ll treat him in a similar way!
I’m hoping Farage and Boris turn up in Edinburgh soon, after all it appears there’s a good chance they’ll be joint leaders in any post 2015 government in Wasteminster, and NO voters deserve to see and here the bigoted lies of those they are helping to support.
Really need to push the similarity between the promises made in ’79 and those from Gordon Brownstuff this week – these devo min proposals have little or no chance of getting through Wasteminster even in the very slight chance that the 3 amigos aren’t just lying again…..
Patronising arrogant Feguson, these people including the news presenter and that woman know nothing of the Scotland they refer to. They are inciting devisiveness in Scotland; there is no anti-english feeling, they are talking Scotland down because in thier arrogance they believe they are superior in every way and will stop at nothing to protect thier interests. Paid up lackeys one and all.
We must get out of this, I hope that we can reach the others in time. It does not bear thinking about the possiblity of our future with these people running the show, thier true colours are showing through now.
Aye, the flag falling down at downing street, there’s thier answer right there. God, I’m so angry right now after watching that newsnight.
OT. The first bit of kit I bought when in business, was a 3.5 Gig Ultra Fast external hard drive, for Mac. At the start of the century, that cost almost £3,200 (ex. VAT), if memory serves. Haven’t things moved on since then? You can pick up a 500 Gig USB 3 external for Mac, for roughly £50 (ex. VAT).
Move over Westminster, Scotland wants to get on with things. Time is the most precious commodity, and Britain has already had 300 plus years to justify it’s existence. Today’s fiasco is clear evidence of the complete failure to do so.
So it seems that what Gordon’s offering is the Labour in Scotland devolution commission report.
Read that and you find out that Scotland will retain Barnett Formula funding and have the wonderful opportunity to hit its population with above the UK rate income tax increases.
The housing benefit power is interesting because there is a warning from (recent) history, Northern Ireland.
DUP respond to Welfare Reform deadlock
Northern Ireland controls its own welfare system but it’s funded on the “parity principle” which is pretty much the principle of “fiscal equality” which applies to public service funding in the UK.
The parity principle means that Northern Ireland can do what it wants with its Welfare system but it only gets funded as if it was mirroring the system in GB.
NI are in big trouble at the moment because they refused to follow the current UK government’s welfare reforms and now they have to fund welfare from other public services.
Brown promises:
“6. New powers over housing benefits
Housing benefit to be devolved Over 400,000 households in Scotland get Housing Benefit, with expenditure amounting to £1.7 billion, representing 12.3 per cent of DWP benefits expenditure in Scotland.”
But if it is funded under the parity principle as it is in NI then it simply means that we can do as we want as long as we accept that we’ll be in a financial straitjacket controlled by Westminster.
Cameron is not coming up here to save the union. He is avoiding PMQ time. To save himself.
Correction (not that it is important):
My first Large Format Printer was over £3.5k and the external drive around £1,500. Just for any nerds checking up om me.
me thinks jackie bird and the rest of the bbc crew have a few bob on no…totally rehearsed set of questions to darling there on the bbc news…with a wee disagreement thrown in just to make it look good…fooling nobody
Just watched Jackie Burd cooing up to her Darling Alistair. It was embarrassing. Not once did she interrupt him, or even try to get him to answer a direct question. He was allowed to drone on incessantly. Is there any point in complaining to Auntie? In fact he even interrupted her questions. She was in so much awe.
What ever happened to Cameron’s it is for the Scots to decide ? Here we have have three Englishman and maybe more coming up to Scotland to lecture us yet again , do they not understand that it is because of them and their policies that we want independence , they are so arrogant that they really think they can convince us to change our minds what plonkers Vote Yes
Can’t remember exactly but my first hard drive was about £300 and about 150 Meg.
My first home computer was about £300, almost a tenth of my annual salary in 1979. It had 4 k of Ram (2114s) and consisted of a printed circuit board and a bag of ttl and cmos chips and components that you had to assemble yourself. Even the keyboard had to have each individual key assembled and soldered into place.
In those days, home computer enthusiasts were numbered in the hundreds or maybe a couple of thousand, in the UK.
Just read on page 2 of the Daily Mail copy I picked up in keswick. “Though George Osborne trailed an announcement on a cross party agreement on a devolution timetable at the weekend,there was surprise at Westminster that Mr. Brown had made it,”
Mr Cameron is not thought to have been consulted beforehand.
“They are in a right mess” So much for so called “NEW POWERS”
better together referendum broadcast on the bbc there…cant believe they mentioned the minimum wage,they think its something to be proud of.
Tonal
“Just watched Jackie Burd cooing up to her Darling Alistair. It was embarrassing. Not once did she interrupt him, or even try to get him to answer a direct question. He was allowed to drone on incessantly. Is there any point in complaining to Auntie?”
Glad I missed that.
Wonder if Ponsonby will do the same? His sneering attitude and perpetual interrupting with Alex Salmond was about the same as Big Bird’s was. If he is equally fawning re AD then it will leave no one in doubt as to his allegiance.
@ No Better Together Thanks
C O N F L I C T E D?
I thought Jackie Burd just let Darling witter on. I was embarrassed for Darling he sounded really panicky.
I do wish that Jackie Burd would have challenged him, when he claimed 1 million gov jobs would be lost if we vote for independence, explain that comment, where are those 1 million jobs?
I’m almost certain AD had a little anxiety wee wee during that interview. The man was in melt-down, and I think Bird did well just to let him gibber and gabber. Got to feel sorry for the guy – losing a referendum campaign so badly, you get replaced by Gordon Brown!
Chic,
Not the Altair? I don’t remember having to use solder on that (my first) but at the end you ended up with lots of odd screws and bits, a tad alarming until you realised that they had just bought packs from the DIY store for the kit.
Yes I thought the Tory Darling losing it a wee bit, but he was still given an easy ride by Ms Burd.
As for Bernard Ponsonby, He is a Republican for Ireland and a Lib Den Unionist for Scotland. How he squares that with Irish Republicans urging support for the Yes campaign is a matter for his conscience and Unionist logic.
The same shitty deal but at least we’ll get it quicker. Ffs
If we are to draw logical, mathematical conclusions from how support is developing for YES or NO these days then we must look to the relative persuasive strengths of the various mediums of informative outlets. E.G. 1.Newspapers- printed versions, 2.Newspapers – electronic versions, 3.TV , 4.Radio , 5.Polls – telephone?, 6.Social Media – Electronic, 7.Social Media – word of mouth.
Here is my take :-
SCORE
1 – NO -1
2 – NO -1
3 – NO -2
4 – NO -2
5 – MaybesAye/MabesNaw 0
6 – YES +4
7 – YES +5
Result +3
But hell what do I know – work it out for yourselves- personally I think we are going to win.
Gordon Brown the great savior of the NO campaign – afraid to be questioned in public prefers to hide and pontificate in Miners Welfares to the unquestioning loyalists. One has to ask why have the Tories and the Libs come to this? Answer is they need a scapegoat – they know they have lost!!
Daily Record: shitty rag as per usual.
How do some of you feel, knowing that you actually paid to read this soiled toilet paper a few days ago?
Cearc
No it was a Compukit UK101 a clone of the Ohio Superboard II.
Think we got the kist in late 78 minus the OS Rom.
So they weren’t up and running till ’79. There’s a story goes with that which I won’t bore you with, but I know for a fact me and my mate were the first two of the commercial kits to be up and running.
Donald
Remember an argument with a common aquaintance of ours, also from the TV world and a pal of Ponsonby’s who swore he was pro-indy. I had queried why he was copying BP on Indy First emails.
OK. Shame I’ve never met anybody who had the Altair kit, about the same time.
Jackie Bird’s body language suggests she is not relaxed in her new role as chief inquisitor for BBC Scotland.
She never seems at ease, continually moving and fidgeting and that means she is not confident enough in herself to get any constructive and cogent answers from a politician.
Terry Wogan has a lot to answer for by suggesting that news presenters have an easy job just sitting behind a desk reading from their autocue and should be sent out into the real world to do something more challenging and productive. It seems that the BBC readily jumped at his baiting, which immediately had the poor sods out of their depth.
I saw a video on telly this evening showing the Union Jack flying over Buckingham Palace. Wouldn’t it be nice if that could be exchanged for a Saltire, even for a day.
New Scottish print newspaper?
As others here have pointed out, we need one after Independence.
If Wings, BellaCaledonia and NewsNetScotland got together with a big crowdsourced fundraiser to start up a new newspaper, I’m sure many of us here would contribute to get that off the ground. I know I would.
At 12:40 Sky paper review has the guy, name unknown, and the hostess {as appealing}, giving their personal opinion that they don’t think we will vote yes. Is that heart over the head feelings?
Seem to remember a certain BBC guy with a personal opinion to the FM. Impartial my arse.
You can guarantee some great comments on the Scottish Question from those guys on Sky’s newspaper reviews.
Like ‘OMG what will happen to the UK if there is a YES vote’.
They just cannot comprehend what those people up there are doing.
I’ll repeat. No lie is too wee, too big, or too dirty for that lot. They cannot help it. It is too ingrained in the British Nationalist psyche.
I saw the Powers GB and the three stooges are peddling described as a carrot. Please make sure that no squirrel is allowed to gorge itself o them. Apparently too may carrots can kill them.
On a lighter note, I read this comment on a recent post regarding the legality of the current “Operation Hearts & Minds” campaign:-
You all know the tune, so here we go – 1, 2, 3, 4………
“Rule Britannia, Britannia Waives the Rules….”
Ho Ho
I’m pretty sure the reason they chose Nogood Brown (hate this damn spellcheck!) to announce the “new powers” guff is so that they can disavow him if “no” is successful.
“He had no right to say such things – he’s only a backbencher with no powers after all. Promising things whilst being fully aware of one’s inability to deliver is typical Labour behaviour…-er-…oops!”
Even if the Tree Stooges did deliver more powers for dog licences, etc, it still inadequate as the power and finance still stays with London spiverry.