tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post4800385980104937994..comments2024-03-29T10:44:12.904+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: British Jobs for British WorkersDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-90037107347275176412009-05-21T17:06:14.815+01:002009-05-21T17:06:14.815+01:00No, you are confirming how tragically insular once...No, you are confirming how tragically insular once-outgoing Scotland in general, and her admittedly always rather peculiar Nationalist subculture in particular, has become since devolution.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-1392969762540651262009-05-21T17:01:58.728+01:002009-05-21T17:01:58.728+01:00Dehli might be mates, but it does not do what is t...Dehli might be mates, but it does not do what is told. Has not since the horn was blasted "at the stoke of midnight" within the Union Parliament chamber in 1947.<br /><br />She merely yawns along with those thirteen renegade colonies to the west of these isles. <br /><br />We used to rule them. Now we work for them.<br /><br />What you have written confirms that Westminster is a "crack-pot" etc.The Aberdoniannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-63967292222603820042009-05-21T16:40:25.449+01:002009-05-21T16:40:25.449+01:00"If you want Westminster to lose face by looking l..."If you want Westminster to lose face by looking like a crack-pot post-imperialist Leviathan then fair enough"<br /><br />Not at all. I want to it do that which everyone who voted Yes to devolution voted for it to do - continue to enact supreme legislation in all policy areas for all parts of the United Kingdom. If you didn't want that, then you should have voted no.<br /><br />In fact, any really principled Nationalist should have abstained, as advocated by Jim Sillars. But I bet you didn't.<br /><br />And good luck with explaining to the people of whatever area of Scotland that they cannot have the project in question, campaigned for by their MP, because it is an act of "a crack-pot post-imperialist Leviathan".<br /><br />What SNP argument? There no longer is one. Money talks.<br /><br />Oh, and you are wrong about relations with India. It is a very close alliance indeed.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-3982045672271375852009-05-21T16:31:04.695+01:002009-05-21T16:31:04.695+01:00David you know perfectly well that an act of parli...David you know perfectly well that an act of parliament cannot be challenged in a court of law. So Salmond and co cannot do so.<br /><br />If you want Westminster to lose face by looking like a crack-pot post-imperialist Leviathan then fair enough. It merely strengthens the SNP's argument.<br /><br />Of course there are lands where London was once sovereign. But when the "Mother of Parliament" roars these days New Delhi yawns.<br /><br />I love this parody by the way by Ian Hamilton:<br /><br />http://www.ianhamiltonqc.com/blog/?p=364#commentsThe Aberdoniannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-27571388569342119442009-05-21T16:21:25.617+01:002009-05-21T16:21:25.617+01:00"One out of 129?"
We'll see.
"Paul Martin announ..."One out of 129?"<br /><br />We'll see.<br /><br />"Paul Martin announced last night he was not running for Glasgow North-East. He said he was committed to Holyrood"<br /><br />In other words, it would just be embarassing, what with everything that has happened. Funny how it was a done deal up until this week.<br /><br />"Sewell motions are enshrined by law"<br /><br />Not such as can override an Act of the Westminster Parliament. If taht Parliament just legislated for the Orkney and Shetland This or the Inverness and Lochaber That, then that would be that.<br /><br />And you and yours would be left trying to explain why you didn't want it to happen, and/or why Holyrood had not already done it. Would Alex Salmond go to court to stop it? That would go down well...<br /><br />"It was recently the 10th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament being elected by the way"<br /><br />Who cares? There'll not be a twentieth. There is simply no longer the money for such luxury items.<br /><br />"Why do you keep harking on about Highland Lib Dems?"<br /><br />They do it themselves.<br /><br />"The Lib Dems are a federalist party"<br /><br />Not really. They are really as I described.<br /><br />"the Scottish media"<br /><br />Who cares? Scottish Labour MPs certainly don't.<br /><br />"You want those tanks and Salmond arrest scenarios don't you?"<br /><br />He doesn't warrant that level of attention. And anyway, he's really the biggest Unionist of the lot. Any sign of that referendum? Well, there you are, then.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-28410191083155734752009-05-21T15:02:05.707+01:002009-05-21T15:02:05.707+01:00Er, what do you mean about MSPs running for the C...Er, what do you mean about MSPs running for the Commons. The only person known to be doing so is Margaret Curran - and that is only probably to save face over her defeat in the by-election and get revenge. One out of 129?<br /><br />Paul Martin announced last night he was not running for Glasgow North-East. He said he was committed to Holyrood.<br /><br />Sewell motions are enshrined by law. Live with it.<br /><br />It was recently the 10th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament being elected by the way.<br /><br />Why do you keep harking on about Highland Lib Dems. The Lib Dems are a federalist party. Next thing you will claiming is that Charlie Kennedy is a hardline line ultra unionist.<br /><br />I am well aware of Scottish Labour backbench MPs - particularly Davidson and co. But the Scottish media tends to treat them as a laughing stock and questions whether they are worth the £64,000 per annum plus expenses. And today's papers are splashed about Mr Davidson and his decorating arrangements.<br /><br />You are just annoyed that Martin praised the Scottish Parliament from his chair during the statement.<br /><br />When you write such repostes I can imagine your face twisted with rage. You want those tanks and Salmond arrest scenarios don't you?The Aberdoniannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-37692382408861000842009-05-20T17:22:17.815+01:002009-05-20T17:22:17.815+01:00"I noticed you did not mark the 10th anniversary"
..."I noticed you did not mark the 10th anniversary"<br /><br />What's to mark?<br /><br />"regulating expenses"<br /><br />Nothing to do with the principle.<br /><br />"And of course Westminster is copying the Holyrood system of electing the chair"<br /><br />I doubt they've ever heard of it. They just got it from the same think tank paper out of the Ark, that's all. And, again, nothing to do with the principle.<br /><br />"Sewell motions"<br /><br />No status whatever.<br /><br />"And Dave is offering to meet Salmond and whoever else in Bute House monthly which is good"<br /><br />Believe in it when you see it.<br /><br />"He is offering to go in front of the Scottish Parliament yearly which I think is pointless"<br /><br />He'll never do it, anyway.<br /><br />"fevered fantasies on your part"<br /><br />And on the parts of the Lib Dems in the North of Scotland, and on the parts of the Labour Party in Glasgow, and...<br /><br />Who needs to do anything? Mostly because of the changed economic circumstances, the thing can and will just die. Slowly. But surely.<br /><br />I ask again, if it is so wonderful, or even terribly important, then why are so many of its members, of all parties, putting up for Westminster? Why is a seat in it just somewhere to park an MP's son before he inherits?David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-3666908411812673362009-05-20T17:14:36.241+01:002009-05-20T17:14:36.241+01:00You are really obsessed with driving down devoluti...You are really obsessed with driving down devolution aren't you? I noticed you did not mark the 10th anniversary.<br /><br />Strangely Westminster has been in touch with Holyrood to see what they can borrow from Edinburgh in terms of regulating expenses. And of course Martin called for this in his speech yesterday.<br /><br />And of course Westminster is copying the Holyrood system of electing the chair------<br /><br />Concerning Westminster legislating for Scotland in devolved areas, there is already a system - it is called Sewell motions. Whitehall sits down with Calton Hill to agree what is acceptable in the Queens Speech and then if it is acceptable to Holyrood the Scottish Parliament gives consent.<br /><br />And Dave is offering to meet Salmond and whoever else in Bute House monthly which is good. He is offering to go in front of the Scottish Parliament yearly which I think is pointless. However his plan to allow some sort of formal dialogue between the two legislatures is in the right direction.<br /><br />I know you fantasies of tanks rolling down the Royal Mile and Salmond being arrested and flown by gunship to a secure cell in Belmarsh. But fortunately they are just fevered fantasies on your part.The Aberdoniannoreply@blogger.com