Those pesky spam people – just cleared it.

However, your spam bot type clearer is none too easy to comprehend

>a new “nofollow”

not sure how to tag that on to the dreaded ‘Texas poker’ we had – not grasped it at all for now.. just have to avidly search and delete the rogues asap for now…

Appreciate your advice tho’ and will hope to finish them off well soon

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http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

Apparently ‘comment spam,’ in which commenters try to hijack your blog for the purpose of advertising links, is a major problem with well-known bloggers. Luckily, there’s a way to combat this.

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You are entitled to your opinion, but I am not going to debate your recollections of the Scottish parliament referendum. In any case, I doubt if anybody is reading this thread any longer.

You can come and debate the issues on my blog http://skakagrall.com if you wish. I assume you don’t have your own one.

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The SNP are, without question, political infants. At their most recent conference they were selling ‘Tony Blair Toiletpaper’, official party merchandise. Does that sound like the behaviour of a party of government?

And listening to the speakers on stage was like turning back the clock to the looney left party conferences of labour back in the 80s. Every single one of them (apart from Fergus Ewing) was utterly thick. I’ve written last minute college essays at 2am, with a hangover, which were more coherent.

Their foriegn policy man (don’t remember his name) made a blistering speech, essentially calling America the Fourth Reich. 3,000 people are employed in my home town by an American company. I have no idea what the total is for Scotland as a whole, but again, it’s a bit thick to be biting the hand that feeds you.

The Scottish Parliament is an embarresment. The standard of debate could barely be lower. The only thoughtful contributions coming from David Mcletchie (the cerebral, super cool scottish tory leader, who could easily be a national tory leader one day) and Robin Harper (the Green Party leader).

Other than that, you’d be aswell getting a bunch of highschool kids to shout insults at each other.
Quite perversly, if any political party is to benefit from the circus, it’d probably be the Tories. The other parties have been in the spotlight, and not come out looking very good at all.

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Ah! The politics of abuse! If you don’t live in Scotland you won’t have to trust the SNP, but I wonder who you think can run the political “pie stall”. My own view is that we won’t see competent government without reform and modernization, which are not offered at present by either Labour or the Conservatives.

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[Right, finding your comment and my original took a bit of archaeology!]

We are close to agreement here, although I don’t accept that your original example was a good one, and I think we need to see the big picture.

We need to see an end to the present constitutional mess of semi-devolution with overlapping parliaments and an unreformed House of Lords.

We need a Scottish parliament with full powers and a corresponding English assembly. If a British parliament is needed (which I doubt) then it should be constituted from the national assemblies (including Wales). (The tripling up of MPs, MSPs and MEPs in Scotland is ridiculous.)

Of course the problem lies in England, not Scotland. It is London that has all the historical baggage of undemocratic institutions: an unreformed old-fashioned first-past-the-post election system, an appointed House of Lords complete with contingents of dubious clerics and lawyers, an inflated monarchy, an established church, entrenched traditional print and broadcasting media etc. all embedded in one of the world’s most ridiculous class systems, reinforced with a system of idiotic feudal titles. Argh!

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It’s no worse than the atrocious political coverage on the BBC, ITN, or Channel 4. All of whom are guilty of producing left wing tabloid garbage. Their anti-americanism (to give an example) verges on outright biggotry at times.

The reason I mentioned anti-semitism was because the Guardian article mind-bogglingly accused talk sport of being a Nazi propaganda station spreading malicious rumours about jews, a totally nonsensical claim (as I said, one of their most popular presenters is jewish). It’s actually the left wing press which verges on anti-semitism at times (how often do you hear the terms ‘neo-con’ and ‘jewish lobby’)

Finally, Nazism did emerge among intellectual elites. Read ‘the road to serfdom’. It owed a great deal to Plato, Hegel, Spencer and Nietzsche. A fact all too readily ignored in modern politics textbooks.

The nasty ideologies of the future (following communism, social darwinism, existentialism etc) are more likely to eminate from cynical intellectual elitists than from ordinary working class folk.

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Not sure how likely this is, but are there areas of policy which the GLA has control which would mean a similar situation for London based MPs? It’s possible there aren’t.

What if a Minister represents a Scottish (say) constituency? Should they not be in charge of a department which has been devolved? What about the PM – who in reality has a dominant role in policy making?

The more you think about it, the muddier the waters get.

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