Friday, February 20, 2009

Pan-unionist SNP budget facilitators

Pretty desperate stuff from Scottish Unionist, putting up anti-SNP quotes from the three main unionist parties and implying their similarity amounts to a burgeoning anti-nationalist alliance. Such an occurrence would of course be the stuff that dreams are made of in SU-land (Iain Gray as First Minster, Tavish Scott as his loyal deputy and Annabel Goldie as Minister for Pan-Union Integration and Harmony - the dream team). But, hang on a minute - wouldn't it be equally possible to find strikingly similar quotes from Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP all attacking the Tories for wanting to 'do nothing' about the recession? Does that mean we have a 'pan-centre-left alliance'? And then there's the fact that the SNP, Tories and Lib Dems are all in agreement in denouncing Labour's attempts to introduce compulsory ID cards and increase the period of detention without trial - is that a 'pan-libertarian alliance'?

In truth, there's nothing unusual about any of this. Any combination of three parties in Scotland can usually be relied upon to wholeheartedly agree with each other on one thing - they hate the fourth. But, to be the mischievous for a moment, there is of course one other thing the three unionist parties all agreed on recently - they all supported the SNP's budget!

8 comments:

  1. James I've said it before and I'll say it again , if you stop giving AM2 blogosphere space then his site will wither. Anyone who promotes it doesn't do Scotland justice.

    AM2 is paid to promote anyone/anything which promotes Scotland.

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  2. Fair's fair, Subrosa - AM2 can't seem to stop himself promoting various 'CyberNat' sites either! The least we can do is give him some attention in return.

    Come to think of it, he does seem to need a lot of attention. The other day when nobody had left a comment on one of his posts, it seemed to bamboozle him. "What? No comments?! All right then, I'll just have to comment myself!" He's probably the sort of person who sends himself birthday cards just to be on the safe side.

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  3. "Come to think of it, he does seem to need a lot of attention. The other day when nobody had left a comment on one of his posts, it seemed to bamboozle him. "What? No comments?! All right then, I'll just have to comment myself!" He's probably the sort of person who sends himself birthday cards just to be on the safe side."
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    Spot on James, just the other day i caught out AM2 having 2 blogs. SM253 posted a comment on the Scotsman news paper regarding Mike Russell and his post was almost identical to a response AM2/su made to myself on his blog about 2 weeks ago.

    Okay nothing wrong with having 2 blogs,i have 2 blogs (most people who visit my blog know this) but i don't pretend not to be the author of the other blog and post comments on my other blog to bolster up any failing arguments.

    Anyway back to your article, the guy is pretty desprate to post such endless bile type on endless occasions and i got board withj it and like Subrosa i now stay clear of his blog.

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  4. Sorry James, that post of mine should have read 'AM2 is paid to promote anyone/anything which DOESN'T promote Scotland'.

    Of course you knew that didn't you :-)

    I've given you a mention of my Subrosa's Super Seven blogs for this week.

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  5. Thanks, Subrosa. I promise not to do a Kate Winslet at my acceptance speech!

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  6. Don't you dare James! Of course, you could buy thousands of boxes of Kleenex to hand round before you start :-)

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  7. Subrosa you have a point. The odious one in question seems to be getting more and more deranged. He is on The Scotsman forum today as Fairfax on the Banksters thread trying to stir up racial hatred, which is his pet subject.

    The fact that he is sponsored and promoted and condoned by The Scotsman, tells us how utterly despicable that paper is, and how it has been infected by the Britnats virus. Unfortunately both his blogs and the paper deserve the extinction that is coming to them.

    It would be great if someone took over The Scotsman and restored the paper to what it was.

    What the poor sods cannot see is that the political landscape has changed in Scotland for ever and the debate has moved away beyond the scope of their blinkered programme.

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