tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post3679483941293870032..comments2024-03-19T09:19:39.539+00:00Comments on Constantly Furious: Brown and Cameron's get-out clauseConstantly Furioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03010139518958428871noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-85587601488081989042010-04-27T19:06:16.980+01:002010-04-27T19:06:16.980+01:00SR - please have some sympathy for us English.
We...SR - please have some sympathy for us English.<br /><br />We have a British Parliament to rule us & you.<br /><br />You have the British & Scots parliaments (and the Welsh & NI similarly).<br /><br />Yet we have no option for self-determination. If the Scots are so proud, why do they bother to stand for the British Parliament? You want your cake, & to eat it too.Joe Publichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829909061904690380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-9352501775555861302010-04-27T19:03:28.752+01:002010-04-27T19:03:28.752+01:00I've checked the list of candidates in Bournem...I've checked the list of candidates in Bournemouth and strangely enough there isn't an SNP candidate I could even vote for if I wanted to.<br /><br />Until the day comes when the SNP decide to put themselves in front of the whole country and not just thier countrymen, Alex Salmond and his party of useless Scottish wankers can just fuck off as far as I'm concerned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-40854315070338974632010-04-27T19:00:29.134+01:002010-04-27T19:00:29.134+01:00"It's not a British parliament, it's ..."It's not a British parliament, it's the British branch of the EU."<br /><br />And if Scotland goes independent, Holyrood will become the Scottish branch of the EU.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-21103865227689615242010-04-27T18:59:13.204+01:002010-04-27T18:59:13.204+01:00"your Westminster bunch"
They're Sc...<i>"your Westminster bunch"</i><br /><br />They're Scotland's Westminster bunch too.<br /><br />Michael Martin was a good, upstanding, Scottish MP. He was so good he was made Speaker of the House of Commons. Then he resigned and got made a Lord.<br /><br /><i>"Scotland and its governing party"</i><br />At Holyrood, but not at Westminster.<br /><br /><i>"The Scots Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-68472844244699427812010-04-27T15:56:00.251+01:002010-04-27T15:56:00.251+01:00I'll tell you something anonymous, if you did ...I'll tell you something anonymous, if you did yourselves a favour and took note of how the Scottish parliament and its MSPs conduct themselves then your Westminster bunch wouldn't have been allowed to get away with their frauds.<br /><br />Also it would show you how a minority government works because you've never seen one have you? You vote red or blue down there.<br /><br />Why subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-52785499480728193392010-04-27T13:09:01.262+01:002010-04-27T13:09:01.262+01:00@Subrosa
"Scotland and its governing party&qu...@Subrosa<br />"Scotland and its governing party"<br />Exactly. Scotland's governing party. These debates are for potentional British governing parties, the main 3 being Lib Dems, Labour and Conservatives. While the SNP can claim to be a major party in Scotland - and therefore could argue for Scottish debates - they are not a major party in Britain as a whole. Why should the rest of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-36522942498220595922010-04-27T13:05:50.760+01:002010-04-27T13:05:50.760+01:00Up here our biggest party is a Scottish one Marvo....Up here our biggest party is a Scottish one Marvo. Now don't you get me started, CF's done enough damage already!<br /><br />CF, therein lies one of the big differences between the Scots and English. The Scots think principle and morals do matter and are prepared to do something about ensuring they do. The English? Well...<br /><br />You don't have much of a handle on the BBC'subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-84911211966400170632010-04-27T12:39:33.791+01:002010-04-27T12:39:33.791+01:00@subrosa
I respect your point of view, but I have...@subrosa<br /><br />I respect your point of view, but I have to say, handing 50 grand to a bunch of lawyers, just to make a point of principle, does seem pretty mock-worthy to me.<br /><br />And hasn't there already been a televised debate with MSP's, featuring all the 'main' parties in the Scottish parliament? <br /><br />The SNP were - rightly of course - represented in that. Constantly Furioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02820008075933084222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-13329308810965251272010-04-27T12:19:52.292+01:002010-04-27T12:19:52.292+01:00@Rosie:
"What have you got down there?"...@Rosie:<br /><br />"What have you got down there?"<br /><br />I'm guessing again, but is it a party that stands for Scotland and only Scotland?Uncle Marvohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00146362608723100601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-32760541215280055332010-04-27T12:08:56.139+01:002010-04-27T12:08:56.139+01:00At least we're doing something about the BBC b...At least we're doing something about the BBC bias CF and not, like you, just ranting about it.<br /><br />True, I doubt we'll win the court case but what you seem to have missed, in your desperation to ridicule Scotland and its governing party, is that the SNP are also doing this out of principle and in the name of democracy.<br /><br />Mock as much as you wish. Until I see an English/subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652557843713412263.post-33046823841985810202010-04-27T08:55:36.016+01:002010-04-27T08:55:36.016+01:00"If Gordon Brown and his advisors admitted to..."If Gordon Brown and his advisors admitted to themselves that, every time his grey and gurning face appears on television, Labour haemorrhage thousands more votes"<br /><br />Jesus, CF, don't tell them that. It's not too late to put someone brilliant in charge, like Millipede, Mandy, Balls ...<br /><br />Er ... as you were.Uncle Marvohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00146362608723100601noreply@blogger.com