Wednesday 28 October 2009

Hootsmon Headlines


Thanks to the Group Captain for the idea. Labour accused that is, not dribbling.

Sunday 18 October 2009

Hootsmon Headlines

So the Orange Lodge is going to mobilise it's members to support Labour...

Long pause for a good chortle.

With friends like them...

Sunday 11 October 2009

A hung Parliament


Had it all planned about what I was going to write about today, but have just come back from a huge Sunday roast and an afternoon walk with the grandchildren; I'm stuffed and mellowed out.
We took the wee ones to a play park I played in when I was their age; as I walked down the street the memories flooded back.
My Grandmothers house with it's wee stane dyke.Wee on one side that is, a five foot drop on the other.
One Hogmanay first footing, the booze in my rucksack, I sat on that wall to finish a can throwing my head back to glug it down, then found myself like an upended turtle in her rose bushes...

Thursday 8 October 2009

King Alexander IV?

What would us cybernats do without Geordie? He makes our life so much easier.

Monday 5 October 2009

I remember why I vote SNP. Again.


I've just been on the English blogs finding out what they think of The Great Debate.
No suprise that the SNP is in the same category as UKIP and the BNP.
Oh God, what I'd give for a really big hammer and chisel.

Sunday 4 October 2009

TV or not TV


Brown versus Cameron. A quite straightforward televised debate by the leaders of two of the major parties would be excellent, high ratings, viewing; throw a bone to Clegg as he may get a lot of disenchanted Labour voters and that's it sorted.

If you happen to be a London based television producer who believes Britain means England that is.

But of course in Scotland Cameron isn't even a blip on the radar, and even with the "I'll vote for a monkey in a red rosette cause ma faither did" syndrome, Labour support is nowhere near the levels it once was.

Some of the subject matter they would be debating about would be irrelevant to Scotland, health, education and the law, all different.

On the subjects of Foreign Policy and Defence, how many people would be swayed by the SNP's policy of nuclear disarmament, and just maybe bringing our troops home?

Some people are arguing that because it will be a debate between the leaders of the Westminster parties, the smaller ones have no chance of governing the UK; so they should be excluded, ignoring the fact that if the SNP get enough MPs, there will be no UK to govern.