This, today, was the best speech, by miles, that I have ever heard from Snotty - passionate, sincere, factual and all the more eloquent for the occasional slip; by comparison Salmond really is just an oily bastard, playing to a crowd of retarded mutants. One has to ask,why didn't Brown make this speech months ago?
We can set aside his bollocks about more powers, he has no power to deliver anything from MediaMinster; we can set aside his history of stuttering, bullyboy incompetence as unelected prime minister, his cowardice, his blackmailing, his great clunking nailbitten fist of Doom thumping on the despatch box; his serial hypocrisies, his graft, his backdoor money from David Abrahams and others; his dodgily funded think tanks, his intolerable nepotism; all of these are chronicled in glorious Technicolour by my young friend, stanislav, who,incidentally, was saying these things whilst all in MediaMinster, absolutely all, were praising Prudence and her Iron Chancellor; we can ignore all that because the Jock Terror is commencing already - togetherist farms, here, in Orkney of all places, last night the scene of criminal damage by NatNutters - and these nasty wee men will never be happy, happiness has been bred out of them and will grow violent perhaps murderous, regardless of the outcome, tomorrow.
Brown is naturally more popular here than down there and his plea was to perhaps more sympathetic undecided voters as well as being an encouragement to the sensible togetherists. Stealing, comprehensively, Salmond and Sturgeon's bogus patriotism, we caught a glimpse of what he might have been had he not joined the Mandestein-Blair-Campbell Betrayal of the Labour movement. A pox on him for that but may his current passion prevail, for all our sakes.
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I do feel a lot of sympathy for the sensible Scots.
There has always been a large constituency of aggrieved, chippy Jocks and Salmond plays them like a concert violinist.
Speaking as an Englishman who has no love of unions, either trade or political, I will be happy if they do vote yes but I fear that life will never be the same for the sensible ones.
It is interesting to hear a defence of Brown - and I can believe that he could have been a better man had he never met Blair and his cronies - there was a time when he was John Smith's creature and I had great hope for his premiership - but like all people who stood in Blair's way on his march to power he seemed to die suddenly.
Blair's treachery towards him certainly seemed to tip him over the edge.
Power eventually sends all men mad but in Brown's case it was want of power that did for him - and Blair made sure that he waited and waited.
I would say that you are welcome south of the border - but I know that none of our scenery is a patch on the Highlands.
Jeez, Mr I, are growing McWeed in that garden of yours?
Definitely his finest hour. I suspect he was never really happy out of Scotland, away from his ain folk (oh dear, overdosing on Scottish songs at the moment).
It is upsetting to hear about Natsi raids; what on earth is it going to be like if they lose?
Well, mrs n, whether they win or lose the position, until Independence day, is that if civil unrest occurs it will be down to the British Army to quell it - and it may come to that, such is the hatred of Jock for his fellow man. More later. Rally round the flag, y'all.
Likewise re: the Natsi nutters Mr I - I thought the Orcadians were above that sort of thing, both geographically and politically. Maybe some 'Sturmtruppen' sent in from further south? Regarding Paw Broon, maybe he has done some small net good here, perhaps he could be granted a place next to M. Hollande, a little way back from the heating system in the place you mentioned back up the road? That said his sins are very grave...
It is too late. The answer will be in the negative but the commodification of power is irreversible, because its main vehicle - the voice - can no longer be controlled. You have seen that a knife and a video camera now buys you a dialogue with the prime minister, and the power to tip his country into war. At no time in history has the common man been more powerful, and it is a shame that at no time has having power been more boring.
Yes tomorrow is now already in the past: the noes will have it but the seeds of chaos are sown.The problems will arise initially in England and Wales where there is already stewing resentment at the prizes endowed on the Scots in panic by the Public Schoolboys. A dream for the Faragistas, and so there will ensue the usual mounting hatreds North, South and West; what idiocy to have opened this box but it cannot now be closed.
If it's NO, I wouldn't want to be in wee Heather's shoes when Jock gets home from drowning his sorrows. This could be ugly.
For a host of reasons, hunches and wind-sniffings I expect a No majority but the major one is hope, which may be muddling my reason.
It is not Orcadians kicking-off but incomer Jocks, who may find themselves ostracised, as happens here; regardless of a national picture, crime is most unwelcome here and the SNP has introduced it.
My own experience, today, was interesting. In the town, I looked at the Yes shop, its windows filled with truly infantile material and a group of neanderthals hovering and then went a few yards down the roadto a trio of togetherists, tried to bouy their spirits a bit and left with a NoThanks sticker on my jumper; within five minutes, however, I had removed it, not wishing to be identified by the monsters. I sometimes leave Harris in the car, my nearest neighbours are a quarter of a mile distant, I have outbuildings packed with tools and machinery, as well as grounds lovingly gardened and stocked over some years, no matter how many sharpened sticks I have, I am vulnerable to malice and if I am how much moreso are those, older, frailer, poorer, living cheek-by-jowl with grievance made flesh, and why would they declare their preference to some impertinent trollop like Kay Burley or some old tart like Jon Sox?
I acknowledge the logic of others here, have argued it fir some time, that in an age of mass ownership of or access to electronic media technology minority groups can no longer be suppressed but having a voice dies not guarantee an outcome and I think it would be fair, in all the circumstances for a victorious Union to rubbish Jock into moody silence. There are common men and there are dangerous morons, Jock, who will beat Heather, regardless, as is his right, is in the latter category; many more, thanks to Salmond, can now see that.
If it is like that where you are Mr I, fuck knows what it must be like in places further south. Reminds me of opponents of the Nazi regime who always ensured that an obilgatory picture of the Fuhrer was prominently displayed in their sitting rooms and copy of 'Mein Kampf' kept by the bedside. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the 'Yes' posters on display in people's windows are there for protective purposes like the fire insurance marks of old. Like you I hope for a resounding 'no' vote tomorrow but I fear and, indeed, expect that that will not be forthcoming. In some ways a slim margin of victory for 'no' may be the worst result of all. Whatever the outcome, the nationalist genie is out of the bottle and I do not think it can be put back. I hope that your remote location and close community keep these barbarians from your gate Mr I.
In a cab on the way to Waverley station - so that I would be safely out the country when it all happened, I lost my reason for a few minutes and engaged the cabby. He professed himself undecided. As I guess a sensible cabby should if he doesn't want to lose half his tips.
But after I had shared the green nature of me lugs and my lack of a direct dog in the fight, he loosened up a bit and agreed that women were still more likely to be No voters but surprised me by his view that the kids didn't buy the Braveheart BS and were lining up as Noes too. Perhaps just as in Ireland, and it is to be hoped one day in Gaza, the kids don't care about all that crap, dad. And then he said that he thought it would be wise to stay in too but that the London lot were testing his patience ever more as the day grew near. The way he understood it was that the No campaign was tending to drive the undecideds away by the misery of their arguments directed towards folk already lost.
As ever, ask a bookie - and they say a comfortable No win. The only flaw in that is that they may not have appreciated the postal assymetry which will assuredly be a cause of unseemliness in the event of a narrow Yes.
Good luck with it, Mr I. Comfort can be drawn from the fact that most of the racket will bugger off back south and leave you islanders be whatever the outcome.
Is it a No? When anyone 22 or younger, when idiot teenagers and random foreign nationals get to vote for their first time - well, fuck me, I don't trust the polls.
I'm sure it has been rather unseemly but I guess this is what happens when you get 2 unelected PMs on the trot - the people get revolting! All the best, makes for good TeeVee if nowt else.
A vow from Cammo, Clegg and Milimeister? Yeah, yeah - that's really gonna work! These guys are meant to be professional and they can't even run a negative campaign - fuck me Jesus, where did these fucks go to skool, it's been pathetic.
It would have been a fair turn up for the books if; whilst Blair leaves office to pursue his apocalyptic quest , Brown brings dour Scots passion and magniloquence endeavouring to keep a union of three hundred odd years from dissolving.
Granted; he should have brought his bombast to the fore some time ago..arrest the momentum of yessers. He might not be the man for the job but he’s giving it a go…fair dues for that.
I’ve seen snippets of the aforemention speech. It’s just …if only… is the impression I got. If he’d done that in office when the banks had the country on the ropes.
They constitute a ruinous tyranny, these fucking pollsters as do all the tellybastards like Maitliss and Snow, to whom the matter is just a step on the career road to Dimblebyism - and now ladeezangenulmen give yourselves a round of applause. Night after night Emily has presented putative undecideds who in the space of a Newsnight show, packed with noisy gabshiteing members of the Free Mutants Movement, get all smirkily Damascene and opt, finally, for Freedom, she's like a mutation of that arsehole, Jeremy Kyle, badgering the studio stooges for some entertaining moments; Alex Thompson, God fucking help us, was reporting from halfway up
Ben Nevis and Kay Burley from the hard streets of Aberdeen; look. here we are, expertly placed in actual Scotland by our locations managers.
It's not just the children and the Gippoes, mr dick, who will muddy the waters, it's all the riff-raff of skymadeupnewsandfilth, a once in a lifetime festival of stupidity, BAFTAs all round. I'm off to vote, hopeful of an encounter with a member of the Yestapo, whose teeth I will, at the slightest opportunity, rearrange.
You be careful with that violence up there, Mr I. Wee Eck might come over all Dr Strangelove once he has had the McBlackshirts march on Faslane and take control of those submarines.
I hope it all went well. Naturally, down here, it's been a bit of a side show almost, always difficult to gauge someone else's election but i've definitely been offended by the 3 fucking main parties just making shit up as they go along, like they have a fucking mandate or something when all 3 of them could be out on their arses imminently and each was 'elected' by foul means not fair.
I dunno - it's not often that elections matter - if ever, and i'm yet to be convinced that either way, this one will make a difference - it's just political class fuckers making jobs for other political class fuckers with no one really noticing the difference except that there seems to be more political fucks knocking about - not that we haven't got far too many of the gits anyway. I mean - ffs, why don't we start paying school governors money for turning a blind eye to institutionalised abuse - it's what politics is all about and a healthy £10,000 per year should err...lube their indifference!!
I didn't hear rthe Maximum Imbecile and I don't care to. The man is a lying cunt.
He even went to court to get judicial backing to the effect that anything he, as a politician, might promise was 'not subject to legitimate expectation'. If anybody falls for his lies they are utter fools.
I was unaware that the Seriously Nasty Party' had been throwing its weight around in your adopted manor. It bodes ill for their rection in the event of a 'NO' vote. In fact it bodes ill for their reaction in the event of a 'YES' vote. Salmond has unleashed his Dogs of War and they'll take some reining in.
Best of luck whichever way the vote goes.
Best wishes to you MrI from the far South West of Cornwall. I have hardly been able to believe my ears at the rubbish sprouted by the Westminster Bubble livers as they keep upping the largesse they propose to strew around. Is there nobody with common sense willing to speak or is it that the 'Meejah' don't want to hear from them? What a miserable state of affairs.....
When even such a prick like Darling, open mouthed spectator to the Great Tits Up can put Fat Eck on his back merely by asking what`s the currency going to be, well, fuck me, it isn`t like they haven`t had a few decades to work it out and didn`t the First Skirtsman used to be an economist ? Which explains it.
Funny how its gone all quiet on them going for the Euro, realising Merkel will seriously grip them by the balls unlike Wisteria and Empty Suit.
I want to know how long it will be before Taffy joins the party.
After they have shot themselves in the foot, I expect the strongest contenders for independence out on the streets....the Yorkshire muslims.
There is no news just yet, for every screwball nationalist, many of them English, running B and fucking Bs or counting Ospreys for a living, the media broadcast a troubled togetheris; no point in watching it. Might be some Exit Poll predictions soon.
Where's the fucking CIA When we need them? They're supposed to stop shit like this, aren't they?
Stay calm Mr I. All shall be well. Or maybe not. Are you still not drinking? Now surely is the time for some beautiful anaesthetic, waiting for the dawn. Having been serenely indifferent to the whole shitfest, I'm now feeling unaccountably jittery. Might take my own advice and down something to blur the inevitable news orgy over the coming hours.
THE THIRD MAN? Recently I have been hearing about the late Reverend Doctor Paisley and Mr Marty Kneecaps and how they spent time chuckling together. Now I hear that Herr Salmond is also chuckling:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100286685/five-small-consolations-if-scotland-votes-yes/
Is there something we should know, Mr I?
Andrew fucking Neil. The horror. Time for bed.
Interesting to hear Big Al Carmichael, just now, declaring Orkney and Shetland's right to remain part of the UK, or rUK, us and our oil. It is unique, street names, place names -my own- are Norse, connections to Norway are strong,,the DNA pool is the purest and oldest anywhere in Europe, the impact on these islands of the military occupation in two world wars, of its huge material imput - the Navy built all the roads, POWs built the causeways which linked the islands, changing thousands of years of maritime separation, farmers still use aircraft hangars and Nissen huts for agricultural purposes, diving on the scuttled WW1 German fleet is a huge tourism attraction, the ruins are Viking ruins, Orkney is as different historically, culturall and linguistically from Scotland as is Scotland from England, in fact, much more so; it is an argument which few nationalist could counter, although they would.
No, the drink has still lost its savourmr bungalow bill, although a bottle of champagne may yet find itself in the freezer by daylight.
I will read Mr Martin in a moment, mr sg, although, more and more, I need to drag myself to the Filth-O-Graph.
Since earlier, that knobhead, Kellner, has predicted a No victory, I hope that for once he is correct.
When the rioting starts after the NO, will Dave have the balls to send in the Army (an English regiment would do nicely).
He' gone, now, I thought zi was nightmaring.
If there is rioting, mr mike, it will need troops, but Jock, alone, is traditionally cowardly, as he shows, just now, it is only as part of the British Army that he has distinguished himself, he will most likely attack defenceless people, in the dark, rather than riot in daylight.
First result, of 31, is a reversal for the SNP.
I think that we are all now losing the will to live. Well done in Orkney though, Mr I. How many times did you vote?
The ducking and diving has, of course, started and the "Solemn Vow" of Devomaxified Home Rule looks to be have been less solemn, less home and less rule than was commonly supposed.
The question is now what damage has been done to the unwritten, almost common law, constitution and what further damage will now be done in the cant name of clarity, and via a politicised codification? And was that the plan all along? And can we trust a bunch of Scottish-biased but Westminster-based politicians and media whores to manage the process honourably?
I was surprised by how many votes they actually polled here, I expected 10 -to-1, not 10-to-4;they will be harder to round-up and drown in Scapa Flow, but it is not impossible. The Shetland vote was also surprising, 64 per cent to 36 per cent
The media coverage, I feel, was dreadfully pro the Story, the Story being Braveheart Independence and against the Reality, no business like showbusiness. Entirely irrelevant arseholes,, like the Green hobgoblin, Patrick Harvey, have been all over the airwaves, when the ghastly little mutant leads a party of one or maybe two MSPs.
I am as baffled as any by the unkowns of your third paragraph, mr mongoose, this is not the revolution I would have sought.
Someway still to go, though, in the results.
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