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  • teamsaint
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 25204

    Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
    Indeed
    BUT why on earth have the Scottish embraced Trump?

    OT I know
    not all of them have, TBF.

    Karine Polwart playing Cover Your Eyes at Celtic Connections, Glasgow in January 2012. (Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, World Turned Upside Down concert).Karine ...
    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12801

      Originally posted by mangerton View Post
      The tories don't like the Scots - we are not people like them. .
      ... and yet, and yet - there used to be a solid tory ("Unionist") base in Scotland - in 1931 winning 79% of the seats - even as recently as 1955 getting over 50% of the votes and 36 of the 71 seats...

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      • MrGongGong
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 18357

        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
        ... and yet, and yet - there used to be a solid tory ("Unionist") base in Scotland - in 1931 winning 79% of the seats - even as recently as 1955 getting over 50% of the votes and 36 of the 71 seats...
        I don't think this bunch of spivs are the same "tories" at all.

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        • french frank
          Administrator/Moderator
          • Feb 2007
          • 30259

          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
          I don't think Scottish disillusion with Westminster is to do with control of education at all
          I was misled by your mention of Scottish students into thinking that the fact that they were students was supposed to be significant.

          I'm not sure who (exactly) it is people 'can't trust', given that the parliamentary party itself was split in the Commons fees vote (and the rest of the thousands of PBI weren't consulted).
          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30259

            Originally posted by mangerton View Post
            But they all got their come-uppance on Thursday.
            The Tories didn't. They held on to 100% of their seats.
            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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            • subcontrabass
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 2780

              Gove to be Justice Secretary:

              David Cameron makes Michael Gove the justice secretary and Mark Harper chief whip as he continues to put together his new Conservative government.


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              • MrGongGong
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 18357

                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                I was misled by your mention of Scottish students into thinking that the fact that they were students was supposed to be significant.

                I'm not sure who (exactly) it is people 'can't trust', given that the parliamentary party itself was split in the Commons fees vote (and the rest of the thousands of PBI weren't consulted).
                I think it's significant that they are youngsters voting for the first time
                but also that they aren't necessarily representative of the whole country

                To spell it out

                People trusted the Lib Dems last time
                they betrayed the trust by voting for things (not just tuition fees) they claimed to be opposed to whilst trying to hold onto the idea that they were a party of principle
                (we really have been round this a thousand times!) the details don't matter, what matters is whether people are honest or not.
                That's also a point about 'self interest', many people prefer ethical behaviour even if it makes them worse off financially.


                (It's not that the Labour party are any different, they weren't planning to abolish free schools)

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                • Frances_iom
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 2411

                  Both Labour + Tories took Scotland for granted (eg Thatcher that her gov could trial run unpopular measures and Labour just assuming the Scots were vote-fodder) - actually a fairly typical example of English Imperialism
                  - the Referendum was won by the 'stay in' side based on fear of the unknown (loss of jobs, loss of the pound, no guarantee of remaining in EU which actually funds some key Scots infrastructure and is I think viewed favourably by most Scots),
                  the Tories used the SNP as a 'fear' weapon (coupled to the obvious unelectability of adenoidal kid as I pointed out some time ago) - Camerloon won't have time (nor does the EU have any inclination to really help) to get any significant changes in EU membership and given that a significant part of his party and much of the tabloid press have succeeded in portraying the EU only in a bad light I can see a referendum (unless totally rigged) actually giving an exit vote by the English but with the Scots wanting to stay in - at which time full devolution + applying to join EU might well see Scotland become with Irish Republic the preferred English speaking springboard into EU

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                  • french frank
                    Administrator/Moderator
                    • Feb 2007
                    • 30259

                    Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                    Gove to be Justice Secretary
                    No justice, eh?

                    Council results interesting. It may show a north-south divide (I presume that), but there can't be much doubt left that that represents a genuine swing to the Tories after five years in government.

                    UKIP and the Greens (especially the Greens) benefit from the hole-in-the-middle gap where the LibDems used to be, nature abhorring a vacuum.
                    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30259

                      Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                      the details don't matter
                      Oh, quite.
                      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                      • MrGongGong
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 18357

                        Originally posted by french frank View Post
                        Oh, quite.
                        They really don't
                        It is very simple
                        You either are honest about these things or you aren't
                        If you aren't you can't be trusted
                        I've had this discussion with lots of students who almost unanimously say the same thing, even those who would be tory voters or who see the merits of what happened

                        Principles matter (or used to)

                        The SNP seemed to appeal to the idea of being principled and probably picked up votes from those folks who felt that the others really didn't have any principles or core beliefs.

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30259

                          MrGongGong, You blether without answering the question. The leadership has resigned, the MPs who voted for anything are out - and you don't say WHO it is can't be trusted - other than those who had no responsibility.
                          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                          • MrGongGong
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 18357

                            Originally posted by french frank View Post
                            MrGongGong, You blether without answering the question. The leadership has resigned, the MPs who voted for anything are out - and you don't say WHO it is can't be trusted - other than those who had no responsibility.

                            If that is the question
                            Then the Lib Dems as a party can't be trusted, that means ALL of them (which isn't to say that the others can)
                            The leadership has resigned BUT they will still maintain that they were right and acted in the interests of the country (which is what Paddy Ashdown kept banging on about on TV last night)

                            You don't seem to think that people are put off by dishonesty and complicity

                            I do

                            and

                            What Buckminster Fuller said

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                            • Eine Alpensinfonie
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 20570

                              Originally posted by french frank View Post
                              The Tories didn't. They held on to 100% of their seats.

                              Wirral?
                              Dewsbury?
                              etc?

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