SlipperyP Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Labour held a meeting at East End Park last night with Gordon Brown in attendance - no idea what the subject matter was though. In the referees room, or was that to big? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Regardless of your political persuasion is Nicola Sturgeon's boast of locking the Tories out of Downing Street even if they are the largest party bitter and undemocratic it is it perfect democracy in action ? Read this and work it out http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/queen-palace-coup-miliband-snp-cameron-huitson-345 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Operation scare old people is underway going by the tweets of the labour types on twitter If you're aiming to scare old people, doing it by Twitter isn't the best idea I've ever heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 The past 6 months have really opened my eyes to the state of the broadcast and print media. Before the referendum I always thought they were, overall, balanced. I've been most disappointed in the BBC. Imagine how balanced or otherwise our MSM must be regarding world affairs given their imbalance on local subjects we now know a lot about. When will Ukraine pop back up on our screens? Is it just a coincidence that we're watching refugees in boats every day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 You need 326 seats in your block to be able to carry confidence motions (and other legislation) in the Commons. Given the Libs might get 25 ish and the SDLP 2, so a Lab\LD\SDLP block would be viable with Labour getting near 304/5ish seats. Why does this explain Boss Nass boasting he would be writing the budget (which all the neo nationalists immediately declared "only a joke" and yet gets a high billing in English press)?If the Lab\Lib\SDLP block is viable, then either the SNP would have to offer a better deal or they would get locked out. So the SNP and Conservative keep playing their little double game of pretending to hate each other while needing each other. Scumbags like Sturgeon and Boss Nass make ludicrous comments like the manifesto of eternal spending and the Tories use this in the English marginals. Off course this is all ludicrous because Cameron would not be laughing at not tweeting Boss Nass's fantasies.... https://twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/590851033753985025 Con\SNP. W&nkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodjesSixteenIncher Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speckled tangerine Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Imagine how balanced or otherwise our MSM must be regarding world affairs given their imbalance on local subjects we now know a lot about. When will Ukraine pop back up on our screens? Is it just a coincidence that we're watching refugees in boats every day? Yeah. Who remembers the BBC coverage of the Edinburgh Yes rally in September 2013? A sixty second piece of the "2000" protesters shoehorned in just before the shove ha'penny results. It was kinda ironic that it took another state funded broadcaster in RT to give any sort of relevant coverage at all. Sure, we all know that the Kremlin funded RT has an agenda. But by giving a passing nod that something trivial (as they saw it) was going on, BBC Scotland showed that it too has an agenda and one that we fund with the weight of law behind it. Anybody who reads one paper or relies on news from one source needs to broaden their horizon. The BBC moulds itself as a selfstyled beacon of "trust" but on indyref, Savile and some woefully skewed foreign reporting of late that trust is swirling round the pan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P45 Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Fucking hell. Is this what the Tories are reduced to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivo den Bieman Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I might be wrong but don't we already use an Australian points system for the non-EU migrants? no, we don't. money is the main determinant of whether you get in or not. you need a minimum of £18,400 / year plus health insurance (as of 6 April) before they will even consider your application. If you or your sponsor /partner don't have that money, you;re not getting in. the system is also deliberately obtuse and complicated, with the response calibrated towards "no". unless, of course, you are a Russian or other investor with a seven figure bank balance- then you get straight in on an "investor visa" without any of the pettifogging regulations to hold you up. Points have nothing to do with it, money everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RabidAl Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 You need 326 seats in your block to be able to carry confidence motions (and other legislation) in the Commons. Given the Libs might get 25 ish and the SDLP 2, so a Lab\LD\SDLP block would be viable with Labour getting near 304/5ish seats. Why does this explain Boss Nass boasting he would be writing the budget (which all the neo nationalists immediately declared "only a joke" and yet gets a high billing in English press)?If the Lab\Lib\SDLP block is viable, then either the SNP would have to offer a better deal or they would get locked out. So the SNP and Conservative keep playing their little double game of pretending to hate each other while needing each other. Scumbags like Sturgeon and Boss Nass make ludicrous comments like the manifesto of eternal spending and the Tories use this in the English marginals. Off course this is all ludicrous because Cameron would not be laughing at not tweeting Boss Nass's fantasies.... https://twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/590851033753985025 Con\SNP. W&nkers. Except that Labour are only polling at 271 seats and the Lib Dems at 28, so that falls on its arse straight away - not viable. New theory needed by you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Fucking hell. Is this what the Tories are reduced to? Yip http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/anti-scotland-cameron-last-resort-snp?CMP=share_btn_tw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fide Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Dunno if anyone's seen this. Not good for the boy standing for SNP in Edinburgh South. http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/snp-candidate-sorry-over-twitter-trolling-1-3751958 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Heliums Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Except that Labour are only polling at 271 seats and the Lib Dems at 28, so that falls on its arse straight away - not viable. New theory needed by you! All this talk about Labour not needing the SNP ignores the practical fact that Labour needs to work – and be seen to work - with the SNP for constitutional reasons, irrespective of whether they can work as a minority government. Here’s why. Historically Scotland has voted Labour and got Tory. If we’re now to vote SNP and get Labour dismissing co-operation with the SNP, that’s a massive democratic deficit equal to anything that has gone before. It’s Scotland being ignored again. Is Labour really daft enough to adopt that approach? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivo den Bieman Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 bah, it's froth, really. expect lots of stories like this in the next fortnight. SNP candidate blanks lollipop lady- front page news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fide Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Scottish LabourVerified account@scottishlabour4m4 minutes ago Big crowd gathering for our rally in Edinburgh this morning! #voteLabour https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/EE15D706B41202964606193491968_3d322ae1305.3.0.16690331991220919332.mp4?versionId=5wnWDz1kV7Lgs4xAU9D6BoaRhXlWchKc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBud Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Tbf that Quisling patter is atrocious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Dunno if anyone's seen this. Not good for the boy standing for SNP in Edinburgh South. http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/snp-candidate-sorry-over-twitter-trolling-1-3751958 No surprise that its a key marginal. Mr Rational, any comment. You have been campaigning hard here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Dunno if anyone's seen this. Not good for the boy standing for SNP in Edinburgh South. http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/snp-candidate-sorry-over-twitter-trolling-1-3751958 The worrying thing is voters thinking do they want somebody as thick as that representing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Scottish LabourVerified account@scottishlabour4m4 minutes ago Big crowd gathering for our rally in Edinburgh this morning! #voteLabour https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/EE15D706B41202964606193491968_3d322ae1305.3.0.16690331991220919332.mp4?versionId=5wnWDz1kV7Lgs4xAU9D6BoaRhXlWchKc These SLab events all seem to feature the same people. If it were the SNP there would be accusations of 'rent a mob'. It just shows how fucked Murphy and his minions are that they have to resort to this. 2015, the year Scottish Labour gave up the ghost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC92 Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Dunno if anyone's seen this. Not good for the boy standing for SNP in Edinburgh South. http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/snp-candidate-sorry-over-twitter-trolling-1-3751958 He sounds like a fucking idiot to be fair. Quisling? Good grief. They can't punt him now without giving up the seat as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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