I made my first intervention in the SNP leadership debate in the columns of The National newspaper in an article published late yesterday.
The views of an Irishman living in England will, after all, be so relevant, won’t they?
It is my hope that amongst the political scrapping serious debate on the Scottish economy might get a look in during this leadership campaign. I will be watching.
Wonder if he’s ever heard of the Skibbereen Eagle?
Love that phrasing “intervention”. So very pompous.
One would almost think he’s the American Secretary of State running shuttle diplomacy between Israel and the PLO?
Love that phrasing “intervention”. So very pompous.
Most of us would translate it as “butting in where not wanted”.
Its not the pronunciation it’s the feckin spellin Neve.
‘The political reality of the moment is that whoever becomes the SNP leader will have to work inside this incredibly rigged political system that has been set up by Westminster to ensure that whoever runs Scotland is bound to fail.’
His financial situation must be desperate it has to be said – I think the SNP is his last hope hence his condemnation of Sturgeon previously.
I made my first intervention in the SNP leadership debate in the columns of The National newspaper in an article published late yesterday.
Charles Pooter could not have said it better.
The eyes of the world turn towards Ely and a hush descends. Waiting for one man to emerge from his unnecessarily large house to explain how society must be reordered. A task so large and challenging that it took him an entire weekend to complete last time. Now things have changed again. A whole new political reality lies in front of him. He can almost sense the power, money and medals that he so selflessly and humbly refuses to chase after. We can only hope that we are worthy of his pronouncements.
“The views of an Irishman living in England will, after all, be so relevant, won’t they?”
Anybody can have views, of course, but what he’s trying to do is meddling.
Which, him not being scots, or in any way part of the party involved, can be seen as Attempted Foreign Influence In A Domestic Process.
Any of our readers up North ( and thus qualified to comment..) willing to point this out to the paper involved? 😉
Which, him not being scots, or in any way part of the party involved, can be seen as Attempted Foreign Influence In A Domestic Process.
Yeah, but a wog is a wog. Pretty much an airtight defense.
Martin near the M25 – worth reminding us of this, albeit it is three days old:
I have no desire for power for myself. I have no reason as a consequence to appease those who might give it to me. I am, instead, only interested in effecting change. And since the only way in which it seems I can achieve this is by writing, and by sometimes being unreasonable, then that is precisely what I will be.
“I made my first intervention in the SNP leadership debate”
Some of us in Jockland are grateful that he exercised at least some restraint by not saying
“I made my first divine intervention in the SNP leadership debate”
@Dennis You have a point.
Then again, it’s still a wonderful opportunity to have the Tuberous One defend himself for the use of the word “intervention”, as this implies actual authority in or over the process to determine the next chairman of the United Scottish Soviet Party.
There’s some words in english you have to be really careful about, since they can trip you up somewhat magnificently. As in this case…
Thanks VP, three days is a long time in politics.
See how he proceeds us on the road to enlightenment. Eschewing fancy possessions and clutching only a latest model iPad, which fell out of the sky in front of him, presumably in a non-taxable way.
Didn’t the BBC tell him to fuck off when he was half way to Scotland last week?
Then again, it’s still a wonderful opportunity to have the Tuberous One defend himself for the use of the word “intervention”, as this implies actual authority in or over the process to determine the next chairman of the United Scottish Soviet Party.
“Intervention” was the euphemism the Soviets used to describe their invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. (“Special military operation” would be the current equivalent, I suppose.)
In fairness to the Great Potato, I’m sure the BBC covered the costs related to the cancellation, which is reasonable given that Sturgeons departure surprised almost everyone save her SNP CEO husband and presumably Police Scotland.
While Scots might find it offensive that Capitan Kartoffel sticks his nose in Scottish (and especially SNP affairs) without the obvious thought that as a dodgy foreigner resident in Englandshire he was best keeping his ideas for ruining the Scots economy to himself.
Having come across this ignorant fuck when he imposed himself in Manx affairs (and the subsequent fallout between the Isle of Man and UK over the Common Purse agreement), the bastard has no concept of restraint nor of the consequences of banging on about things he knows nothing about.
He’s a bloody menace that needs to be locked up for the good of the realm.
The thing is, according to these “Scottish Nationalists”, any bugger can be a Scot. And those of us born and bred here who disagree with them seem to be at the bottom of the list.
Yeah, I’m Manx/Irish so treated with suspicion at best, but while I support Scottish teams at Rugby and Football that’s about the extent of my integration. I have no Scottish heritage in recent history, although if you scratch an Irishman hard enough theirs some Scottish ancestry in their somewhere.
On the matter of the SNP, never voted for the buggers and never will. On the economic argument alone Independence would be a disaster for Scotland and this Chimera of “Scottish Independence within the EU” even more so.
Fortunately, BRExit makes that hard-to-impossible to achieve, so hopefully SNP support (and support for Independence) will fall back to where it was before devolution as very much a minority sport.
Getting rid of the SNP in Holyrood and a decent government that can actually run Scotland would be a nice idea, but fat chance of that given the MSP’s across all parties that we have at the moment.