redcliffe62, have a look at the seat and you will see that the SNP were simple not in this race in the 2010 GE. I think that we have to remember that while Scottish Labour take the Westminster Parliament more seriously, and we see all their campaign funding and talent heading that direction. Equally, all the SNP talent and money went in the other direction towards the Holyrood elections, and their result there last year reflected this.

But while the SNP bask in the glow of that Holyrood result that saw their main rivals take an absolute drubbing against Salmond and his team. Just 12 months before this, Labour achieved just as impressive a result at the Westminster GE in Scotland by directing the same amount of effort and money in their campaign using their most talented and effective media performer. Basically, Salmond was extremely popular and effective as FM in a Scottish election, but he was crap as SNP Leader in a Westminster GE, that really does put it into context.

And yet your hero Cammie Blair who stood MPs in every part of the U.K. at the G.E. was not only crap in scotland at the G.E. his SCON clowns were crap in scotland at the scottish election.

“Drubbing” would be far too kind a word for a laughable one MP and SCONs worst result ever.

At least Cammie managed to win a majority against someone as hopeless as Brown.

No, wait, he couldn’t even manage that.

 I was watching some programme about boy bands a few days ago, and had to admit to being a Bay City Rollers fan to much laughter. Anyhoos, it was an interesting programme and delved back as far as the Monkees etc on the subject of boybands. I feel a bit guilty after remarking just how well Davey Jones had aged when he was interviewed.

In Porridge, there was a black character called Jock who spoke with a  strong Scots accent – that was 40yrs ago.

“Starkey eloquently put forward the best argument yet for why the current NHS reforms are so desperately needed, and I am sad to see the current SNP administration in Scotland cannot see this.”

The Cameroon spinner thinks the SNP should be taking advice for a comedy QT guest.

Priceless.

Just when you think they couldn’t possibly be more out of touch with the scottish public the Cameroons double down on the lunacy.

Lansley’s NHS reforms debacle may be unpopular in England but it is as nothing to the hilarious idea that Lansley’s inept bungling  would be popular in scotland.

Agreed. She seems to be arguing that Scotland is subsidised by SE England, and that should continue. In reality, the three richest parts of the UK – London, SE England, and Scotland should subsidise the poorer parts of the UK like Northern Ireland and the northern English regions in a UK.

Unfortunately, London & the SE use “unattributable” spending to keep much of their money to themselves.

I would have some respect for Lamont if she was arguing that Scotland’s wealth should be used to alleviate poverty in other parts of the UK, Europe and the world. That would be good socialism.

Alas, she is simply a wee wifie putting her own earnings into the family pot, while being pathetically grateful that her man doesn’t spend all his earnings on fags and booze.

Or in Wales where the ICM poll showed that 77% rejected the idea that the NHS England “reforms” should be introduced in Wales.

538
Here’s a chart showing the (in)accuracy of primary polls this year; more to come later. bit.ly/Aa7wJm

It’s a tragic subservient mindset I thought SLAB might have managed to free themselves of by now but apparently not.

Lamont’s dithering over Eric Joyces fistfight then slamming him after the schoolgirl affair story got out must have stirred up a hornets nest not only in SLAB but in westminster.

There’s going to be a crunch point with her leadership sooner or later.
 

I don’t know what the odds are on getting the boot at some point in the not too distant future are but they’d be worth a punt now.

I would have thought all that wealth trickling down from second home owners would make it wealthier. They seems to expect the same in London with all those Russians and Arabs needing a place to park their dodgy money.

Recognise the rivers?

 Forth, Tweed(?) and Tyne.

“A Spanish village has voted to rent out land to grow marijuana as a source of desperately needed revenue.
Rasquera, a hamlet of 900 in Catalonia, said its councillors approved the plan by a 4-3 vote, despite the fact that it is not legal.

Councillors took the decision because of the high unemployment, which stands at over 20 per cent.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108888/Spanish-village-leases-land-grow-marijuana-high-unemployment.html#ixzz1nvCfZcQl

 “Lamont to warn the party’s MPs and MSPs that they cannot expect a job for life.”

Ask not for whom the bell tolls Lamont, it might just be tolling for you too. ;^)

 ’SCOTTISH Labour leader Johann Lamont has ruled out supporting
“devo-max” and the transfer of all economic powers to Holyrood,
insisting it was independence in all but name’

Mick, sounds to me like the wimmin in charge of the rainbow alliance are speaking from the same hymn sheet. And to be honest, even Blair at the height of his political dominance in Westminster and the media had his critics. The SNP are just plain weird at the moment because they are so utterly focussed on Independence rather than normal issues that matter. And that might actually not be a good thing for them or their glorious leader if he becomes a joke of President, Kim Il-sung proportions. Especially with the kind of praise Rupert Murdoch is heaping on him.

In Tesco today, 1 item for £1.86 or 2 for £6. I would never buy both at the same time!

Mick, got a very much loved Auntie who has now spent over a month in and out of Hospital up here in Scotland. I didn’t witness it, but my Uncle did see her GP have a complete slanging match with the Hospital doctor who sent her home to her doorstep at 6pm alone and without telling him or her family, and with an ongoing infection minus her most vital medication for her diabetes.

 That beats the 1 item for 1 pound or 2 for 2 pounds!

I’m sure that you are wholly aware that comparing the leader of any party in the UK (with the possible exception of the BNP) to a totalitarian dictator is utterly offensive, as well as being very childish. 

I’m sure that’s why you do it, but it does demean you to a great extent.

 I walked along the old trackbed between St Andrews bus station (itself the site of the closed railway station) and the new University science buildings on the western edge of the town.

Here is some footage of a train going through St Andrews in 1964 about 3 minutes in. Turn off the volume on your computer if you watch it though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=9LrZxjdgrIg

 I saw Durham Cathedral going up, but didn’t see Peterbrough until tonight, all lit up. I was sitting facing backwards on the outbound journey you see! Here’s Durham:

Doesn’t demean me at all. Just shows that you would rather spend time here on this site accusing others of being ignorant rather than watching our arrogant glorious leader try to dominant all strands of news information.

 Wonderful! Not sure how much of that I actually recognised but I guess a lot of redevelopment has ocurred since the 1960s.

 “only dyed in the wool partisan posters here have a problem with Cameron’s Morrison’s photo op”

Even Richard Nabavi admitted it was a photo-op or is he labour or SNP now?
The only dyed in the wool partisan poster is yourself who wouldn’t even concede that obvious truth till now.

“Not once have you or any of them highlighted where he was before that
Morrison’s visit, and where he was heading afterwards…….”

On the contrary the fact that he went to look at a nuclear submarine was highlighted by me as it only emphasises just what a laughably obvious and desperate photo-op the Morrisons “drop in” was.

Care to explain where all the hilarious photos of “ordinary bloke” Cammie looking at some cabbages and buying a fish while holding a basket like it was going to attack him came from ?

Cameron at Morrisons: proof that Downing Street is missing Andy Coulson

Late on Friday evening, just as the weekend newspapers were being
finalised, the Press Association sent round a striking set of photos.
They showed David Cameron doing an “impromptu” shop at Morrisons, where
he bought fish and vegetables for a family dinner. Sea bass was on the
menu chez Cameron, we learned.

Such occasions are never impromptu, of course. The award-winning PA photographer Stefan Rousseau was presumably given fair warning of this 15-minute photo op. So I wonder: did Cameron’s team really think it through?

Not to be rude, but the Prime Minister sticks out like a sore thumb.
He’s massively overdressed – the doorman at his old club White’s would
approve of that outfit – and looks awkward on his own. He may as well be
wearing a t-shirt that says: “Sorry about the aloofness, I usually shop
at Waitrose.” Somehow, I can’t imagine Tony Blair having the same
problem.

How many Sun readers
were convinced by the pictures in their Saturday morning paper? Here’s a
guess: probably about the same number that ate sea bass the night
before. No doubt about it, Andy Coulson would have vetoed this little
outing.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100135375/cameron-at-morrisons-proof-that-downing-street-is-missing-andy-coulson/

But Cammie’s number one fan fitalass was convinced and isn’t that all that matters in the end? ;^)

Mine was a trip on the Tyne ferry as was.

It was blowing a gale and raining sideways – the wind carried the overwhelming smell of the glue factory and the guide wibbled about local heroes I’d never heard of or of micro family details of one’s I had as if anyone cared.

However, that doesn’t seem as bad as Sarcozy, who has obviously been taking lessons from Iain Gray.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17227438 

Nytol

At least you got a free high by the sound of it.

The widget still works in Firefox with GreaseMonkey, although I never quite perfected it for Disqus, so there are things that break, like clicking “more comments” at the bottom failing to apply the favourite and ignore stuff.

IIUC the situation with current versions of Chrome is that you don’t actually need to install TamperMonkey any more – for a while it Just Worked on Chrome. But one of the upgrades to Chrome has broken it, and I haven’t got around to fixing it yet.

Sorry to take so long on this – I’ve been busy with some other (very interesting) projects, and mostly use the site on Android myself where my widget doesn’t work for me either.

Just watched QT – what a cracking edition. The best in as long as I can remember.

And on Ms Reeves – oh dear. What has happened to her? She was super at the Labour conf – genuine, animated, fun and direct.

Has she been on the botox? I didn’t see her expression change once, though she managed a bit of eye-rolling and sighing as she parroted SpeakYourWeight lines.

The chap from the footballer’s union was thrice as articulate and compelling. As an aside – it was interesting that he had no idea what a Pilgrim was, and totally against the idea of tax payer funded union reps.

Mr Redwood surprised me with much of his tax-the-rich rhetoric. An interesting angle – ‘I want to get as much from them as possible’ and using that as the case to drop 50p rate.

For a Dewsbury audience, I thought it was very unpartisan and much more civil than usual. Ditto Mr Dimbleby’s chairmanship.

I get the impression someone has had a word.

And right on cue after oldnat goes fitalass plays the victim again.

Why even bother anymore? Nobody believes a word of it you aren’t even very good at it and you do it all the time.

Message to rest of PB, beware of the SNP dominanted debate here, it doesn’t reflect either the polls or the majority views of fellow Scots living up here.

*falls off cat crying with laughter etc*

You are a scottish tory who thinks Cammie Blair walks on water. You couldn’t be more out of touch with scottish public opinion if you tried.

Don’t you even have the slightest ounce of self-awareness?

Presumably if Portsmouth do get liquidated, then only two get relegated? Which is something of a straw to cling to if you are a Forest fan!

I like reading your comments, even if i do not agree with them always, and if I agree with you I have been known to comment.
Re Jo Swinson, I think the SNP will come 2nd to labour and not win, with the libs 4th.

Sunil could become an honorary thistle head, as long as he perfects his new Scottish accent like that chap from Porridge herein mentioned.

Bugger

German Retail Sales m/m -1.6% v expectation of +0.5%. Previously +0.1%

“In Tesco today, 1 item for £1.86 or 2 for £6. I would never buy both at the same time!”

Is Gordon Brown managing that branch. We should be told ?!?