tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post2746535213595420882..comments2024-03-28T23:49:28.343+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Be Careful What You Wish ForDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-42823842457170900192011-02-01T14:08:18.088+00:002011-02-01T14:08:18.088+00:00Something else entirely, as you know.Something else entirely, as you know.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-58659128585477994102011-01-31T16:00:35.767+00:002011-01-31T16:00:35.767+00:00But what about the Manx minister?
You condemn Sco...But what about the Manx minister?<br /><br />You condemn Scottish nationalism but seem to think the Manx equivalent to be cool?<br /><br />"And AV would make no difference, in fact it might well be worse for the SNP. Whose second preferences would they get, even where the Labour candidate didn't get more than half of the first preference votes"<br /><br />Maybe you should analyse the casting of the second ballots at Scottish general elections.Don Robertonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-41224645096545679962011-01-31T15:19:13.724+00:002011-01-31T15:19:13.724+00:00It's the voting system that there is. And AV w...It's the voting system that there is. And AV would make no difference, in fact it might well be worse for the SNP. Whose second preferences would they get, even where the Labour candidate didn't get more than half of the first preference votes?<br /><br />Being a Labour MP from Scotland is now practically a peerage, even complete with a re-emerging hereditary element. Yet they can turn round to their Holyrood contingent and say, "You lose at least as often you win, whereas we always win". And they will always have the ear of the Labour Leadership, simply because they are there rather than four hundred miles away.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-28113123457966943052011-01-31T15:13:03.090+00:002011-01-31T15:13:03.090+00:00So why are you not demanding the arrest or dismiss...So why are you not demanding the arrest or dismissal of the Manx Minister for Infrastructure?<br /><br />If Salmond came out with something like that------<br /><br />"or about the SNP, which proved last year that it was no threat whatever to the position of Labour MPs."<br /><br />Thats because of a flawed voting system. It is not totally a coincidence that the head of the parliamentary group for preserving FPTP is Brian Donohoe.Don Robertonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-48755784972922337182011-01-31T15:05:57.939+00:002011-01-31T15:05:57.939+00:00I stopped reading after the first sentence, becaus...I stopped reading after the first sentence, because you still don't get it: Labour at Westminster couldn't care less, either about their "colleagues" at Holyrood, or about the SNP, which proved last year that it was no threat whatever to the position of Labour MPs.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-58071998489109636512011-01-31T15:01:12.635+00:002011-01-31T15:01:12.635+00:00Yep, Labour in Westminster blatently trying to und...Yep, Labour in Westminster blatently trying to undermine their colleagues in Holyrood a few months before the general election would be a gift for the SNP - and doing so with the collusion of the Thatcherite wing of the Tories. Double bonus.<br /><br />One thing that is thrown at Iain Gray is the accusation that he will be London's man in Scotland. There was cartoon recently in a Labour-supporting newspaper - the Edinburgh Evening News - as a dog sitting beside a gramophone saying "This is London". The caption - "His Master's Voice".<br /><br />Should Labour take power in May and form a minority government, then the Tories will stitch them up like kippers in the funding department. They will become the Tories' Sonderkommando in carrying out cuts. They will be against the cuts but no choice but to carry out the dirty work.<br /><br />I really shake my head at your Scotophobia and your creepy, authoritarian-imperialist cant.<br /><br />As for this:<br /><br />http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/uk_more_foe_than_friend_to_island_says_minister_1_2898182<br /><br />Why are you not petitioning the Queen not to have this man sacked for treason and then to be transported in chains by gunship to the Tower to held at her pleasure?Don Robertonoreply@blogger.com