I’m delighted to see Murdoch and Salmond in alliance. They belong together.

Or alternatively, how about an absolute majority in Scotland’s Parliament?

How about it?  Defence is a reserved issue as you and the voters well know.

I think Labour’s use of identity politics was  and is  abhorrent.

I’ve no problem with saying that at all :^)

Fair enough Chris, I agree. But I would have thought the protests would go the other way if the UK govt upped and decided to move the submarines and their jobs to Portsmouth.

“I would say Mike’s so-called ban which you didn’t bother reading what he actually said”

So why did I directly quote what he actually said when launching my “crusade”?  Don’t add up, Alan.

SeanT posted this article the other day IIRC – just read it and its well worth 5 mins of your time.

Some
years ago, at a management retreat held by Rupert Murdoch’s News
Corporation, the senior managers and their distinguished guests returned
from lunch to find freshly minted copies of the Times — the original London Times,
that is — lying on their chairs. This was slightly odd because the
afternoon speaker was Kelvin Mackenzie, then the imaginative editor of
its much less respectable neighbor, the noisy, populist tabloid Sun.

Still, Mr. Mackenzie bounded up to the lectern and genially invited
his audience to look through his rival’s stories. What did they think of
them? Solid responsible reporting? Or dull conventional stuff? Which
was it?

The audience, doubtless suspecting a trap, indicated cautious approval.

Whereupon Mackenzie expressed unfeigned delight since, as he told
them, the paper they were reading was composed word for word from
stories originally written and published in the Sun and then re-printed for the occasion in a Times broadsheet format. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292189/son-isuni-john-o-sullivan?pg=1

An anti Semite could pick out three places on that list and start posting that they all had higher than average percentages of Jews.
It would be the exact pointless mirror image of your “thing” about Muslims.

‘Romney’s Top 10 Wealth Gaffes’

1 – My wife “drives a couple of Cadillacs”
2 – “I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners.”
3 – Annual speaking income of $370,000 is “not very much”
4 – “I’m also unemployed.”
5 — “I like being able to fire people”
6 – “Corporations are people, my friend.”
7 – “I’ll tell you what. Ten thousand bucks. A $10,000 bet.”
8 – “I’m not concerned about the very poor”
9 – “There are times when I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.”
10 – Romney on Newt Gingrich: “He’s a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million dollar purchase from Tiffany’s, you’re not a middle class American.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2012/02/28/romneys-top-10-wealth-gaffes/

Is the Vote2007 website working for anyone?

http://www.vote-2007.co.uk/

Lucky boy Fenster. Must be getting close to lambing time now.

Because they were better than the alternative at the time.

Isn’t that what a non-tribal voter does?

Are you in complete agreement with every SNP policy?

Unless you are – the same applies to you ;^)

In that case, I’ll just note the irony of you complaining about me not reading the information that’s given.

Sir Rupert and the Toy Boy.

 http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/opinion/alex-and-rupert-a-fine-bromance.2012032122

TIM: “you’re obsessed” – well it sure takes one to know one m8i!!!

 By all means do.

OK.  How ironic it is, Alan, for you to complain about me not reading the information that’s given.

“He enjoys the thrill of St Andrews Day by kidnapping the first Englishman he finds and skinning him like an apple, before setting fire to an A4 portrait of HD2.”

I promise you that I have only ever done one of those things.

“Mr Cameron confessed to using the show’s catchphrases such as “what’s occurring?” and “tidy”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/9114459/David-Cameron-bows-down-to-Gavin-and-Stacey-actress-Joanna-Page.html

He’s attempting to be clever, it doesn’t quite work.

I was focusing on the use of the word ‘recollection’ in an article from that bastion of socialism, the Telegraph. Perhaps Mr Cameron needs to use better PR people.

Its because Tim can’t help himself. 
First he thinks it clever and funny.
But really it’s Tim imposing his bigoted view of people, all people, (like Mrs Duffy) who are opposed to immigration and concerned/angry/whatever over various terror attacks by muslims.  Tim’s view of Mrs Duffy equates with Gordon Brown’s.

Tim does not realise that the sweeping scale of his generalisations earmarks him as being as much a bigot as the people he criticises.  He goes out of his way to make nasty insinuations at opposing parties but ignores and runs away from the same issues that have been proven against his own party.

He is given far too much leeway on this blog and his spamming ruins it – and that before you bring the McSpammers into it.

And the usual suspects turn up.
The “Zionist pedophiles” fixated Trevor and his little helper.

Is there any betting site where odds are available re: which Sun or NotW will get arrested next ?

These Romney ‘gaffes’ are quite ironic, really.  People are always complaining that politicians (especially Romney) are fakes and should be their natural selves rather than trying to pretend they are something they are not.

Romney follows the advice, and gets pilloried for it..

I rest my case.

James, seriously – why can’t you just say – Oops. I was wrong?

There is no indignity in that. Most people respect others more when  they recognise their errors.

Showing that you are big enough to be wrong, demonstrates self-confidence.

—

You’ve got to prefer Daves approach.

That not knowing how many houses you own, coupled with not being able to “recollect” going riding with Rebekah Brooks are just a cover for the inner Guinness and Footy man.

Jeepers, the powers of PB knows no bounds! SNP alter policy due to persistent Herd assaults?

‘Independent Scotland could join Nato, say SNP sources’
- SNP is believed to be considering scrapping opposition to Nato membership as part of radical shakeup of defence strategy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/01/independent-scotland-could-join-nato?newsfeed=true

“Showing that you are big enough to be wrong, demonstrates self-confidence.”

OK, so let’s see if you practice what you preach.  Will you now accept that it was ludicrous of you to repeatedly demand a link to a TV programme that was several years old?

Murdoch’s decision. Another flip flop from weak Eck.

It’s no more defamatory or less fact-based than the stuff he makes up about me.

Sigh.  This isn’t new, Chris.  It was in the Scotsman the other day.  *If* the policy changes (and that’s highly speculative at this stage), I’ll disagree with it.

What link was this and when did I ask for it? Did I *demand* it or just ask for some back-up evidence as is common practice on PB?

Really, just for second look at what you post.

It’s aggressive, often spontaneous personalised attacks, unwilling to accept you are ever wrong and deliberately intended to provoke others who don’t agree with you.

And you regularly assume that I must read your blog. I have absolutely no idea why you think so – unless you believe you’re irresistible.

It’s like a chap working in Greggs’ assuming I have a crush on him because I sometimes buy a sandwich when he’s manning the till.

And then angrily blogging about it when I didn’t notice his special tie.

If someone had singled out three places with high Jewish populations on that list and tried to put that forward as the defining factor for the RightMove list they’d deserve to be picked up on it, you are exactly the same with Muslims.
And you have rather a long history of it on here.

“perhaps any other SNP lurkers might now want to contribute to the debate”

Don’t worry – Plato knows their names of all the pro-NATO Nat lurkers off by heart.  Especially when she’s frantically trying to disprove that this is a Tory-dominated blog!

Apart from your Republican beliefs
Your disagreement with the majority of SNP supporters on defence.
And your views about Scottish Golf courses…

Are there any other substantive issues on which you take a minority view, within the minority party?

It’s getting very personal in here this afternoon.

“Did I *demand* it”

Yes, you did.  And you claimed that if I didn’t provide it (which of course was physically impossible), that meant I was making the whole thing up.  You’ve repeatedly gloated about it ever since.

Can I now have an apology please?  It’ll make you look more self-confident.

“It’s aggressive, often spontaneous personalised attack”

This from the woman who called me “creepy”, “weird”, “a w*nker”, “a twat”, “a tiresome upyourself jerk”, etc, etc?  I must have been going some to match all that.

You just couldn’t make it up.

 Must be Ilford South – Ilford North is still Tory