Undoubtedly.
Really?
Agreed.
I put the first reply as a bit of a wind up to your good self, K
He's always been a fantastic orator but his politics baffle me. He wants independence for every country bar his own.
The end point of politics that come from what you are against more than what you are for. A confused and sordid mess.
Care to expand on what you mean by that?
I’ve remarked on it multiple times since 7/10 Archie, immediately rubbished for it by Gareth (I think it was) and yet here we are already.
Galloway won with 16% of the electorate in a safe Labour seat with no Labour candidate. It's the equivalent of someone walking down the street trying front doors and finding one unlocked.
yup. Although more a directly PR scenario that is nevertheless broadly what has happened by parties converging onto the liberalism of the ruling class whatever their ‘primary colour’.
Nah, it’s still a by election protest vote. When it comes to the serious GE, people will come out to make sure he dosent get in.
Hardly because him and his party are any good. FFS its the mess across the bench in Westmister which is giving the Knight the chance tae govern. Labour will be a disaster for Scotland just like their Tory pals.
We’ll see. He’s won a GE seat with broadly this act before, and that was nearly 20 years ago. Britain has changed an awfy lot since then.
You are right but I don’t know why you keep emphasising the distinction when the impact on Westminster politics affects Scotland too. It could be a ploy for Indy right enough, though.
Don't you think we need a change from two very tired administrations?
We need a change from two very tired parties (at Westminster level). But yes, the SNP have lost it from too much power.p for too long.
Just like wee Eckie - a little shite who can manage a crowd.
Once more I agree with you, but the context is British level politics, British foreign policy etc, so I don’t think it matters.
I think we should have nothing to do with Westminster archie.
This is the goat pretending to be a cat on a TV show.
Heres another of him at a different time on the same show. The pschophantic whore that he is
I get that. So you have to say that Labour would be a disaster.
You that daft that you think there will be a marked difference with labour? The Tories take away 10 things, Labour will give us "back" 2.
Do you really think Labour will be much different ? Indeed can be much different ? They sit within the same very narrow Overton window defined in the Blair years and extended by Cameron and Osborne. They are aimed at the same set of interests give or take the varying sops each throws to build a coalition. They will inherit the same economic mess they bequeathed.
You pull out misleading stats when it suits your shock jockey narrative.
But you know as well as anybody else, the SNP exist for one reason, and one reason only. And if they had achieved that goal, they would have disappeared like snow off a dyke.
What misleading stats?
Well in theory yes. But the reality is that Scotland needs run in the mean time. I think that reality is not endlessly deferrable.
I don't know. I think they will be more competent and less riddled by infighting (at least in the early years). I think they will have an eye on issues that matter to people like health and housing. But I guess this plugs in to your vote for no one narrative.
OK but what about the issues facing people now?
Actually I don't think we need a continuation of the status quo. I just don't believe that the Nationalist approach is the only game in town.
Yeah, cause no way could Scotland survive and prosper like the likes of Belgium and Netherlands while bordering huge countries . Never mind the giants of Malta and the likes.
It does. That’s an individual choice and I am not trying to persuade anyone else.
Well that’s my point!!!