tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post2598927250385136379..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: A Stooge WritesLallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-56286140960773391142013-11-17T15:09:12.151+00:002013-11-17T15:09:12.151+00:00Thanks Edwin. In Ferguson's day, I'm sure ...Thanks Edwin. In Ferguson's day, I'm sure that Dundas would have stamped out any suggestion of a political debate on secession (had such an argument raised its bewigged head). Once Braxfield was finished with him, Alex Salmond would be joining Thomas Muir, on the boat to Botany Bay...Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-5815767893488928912013-11-17T15:05:14.865+00:002013-11-17T15:05:14.865+00:00As you say, Doug, this kind of nonsense isn't ...As you say, Doug, this kind of nonsense isn't limited to pointy-heids in the academy. (And I'd encourage folk on the Yes side not to embrace the logic of the witch hunt either.) Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-84952946550351796452013-11-17T14:13:31.898+00:002013-11-17T14:13:31.898+00:00Thanks Rolfe,
As you say, ridiculous of me to ove...Thanks Rolfe,<br /><br />As you say, ridiculous of me to overlook Elliot in this context. Monstered much, much more vigorously, poor chap.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-75222450932654326242013-11-17T01:23:58.536+00:002013-11-17T01:23:58.536+00:00I am pro Independence and becoming more and more i...I am pro Independence and becoming more and more involved/invested in securing a YES. My partner is YES but not involved/invested in achieving this result. This issue has a spectrum of conviction on which the decision to vote, either way, is balanced. What the issue needs is balance in the material spewing forth from which people can base their decision. My hope is that people will see through the MSM bias, the fear and un-truths told and be able to vote with a clear direction in their mind (Yes or No). If this vote is stolen because of a media bias, that must surely rank as the most appalling abuse of democracy in the history of our time and in that case; we can give no more, we will fail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-65533397170127811142013-11-17T00:01:48.218+00:002013-11-17T00:01:48.218+00:00And it's not just academics - remember Willie ...And it's not just academics - remember Willie Rennie questioning the appointment of Martin Compston as a Glasgow 2014 ambassador because of his support for independence, yet nary a murmur over Billy Connolly having a similar role, despite him being the only Scottish comedian known not to support independence (until Susan Calman came to the fore, of course...) And what about Martin Sime being chastised by that self-same Liberal Democrat for having the temerity to not be openly hostile to the Scottish Government?<br /><br />The idea that unionists are being silenced is nothing short of preposterous. It's that old tactic of accusing your opponents of that which you are guilty - something Better Together seem to do an awful lot of...Doug Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15017218581660887134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-3328349906767961362013-11-16T20:06:52.702+00:002013-11-16T20:06:52.702+00:00'But each of us carries our political and theo...'But each of us carries our political and theoretical freight.' <br /><br /><br />Well played LPW! <br /><br />The problem of how to conduct our civil debate was pondered by Adam Ferguson a couple of hundred years ago -<br /><br />'Our attachment to one division, or to one sect, seems often to derive much of its force from an animosity conceived to an opposite one: and this animosity in its turn, as often arises from a zeal in behalf of the side we espouse, and from a desire to vindicate the rights of our party.'<br /><br />I found that quote just the other week in a TLS review of Iain McDaniel's book on Ferguson. The thing is that even if one is actually giving what one sees as one's authentic balanced opinion, in the fevered atmosphere of the indy debate, commentators are rarely seen as impartial, and there is no agreed objectivity - only partial comments from prejudiced players. Unless you agree with the comment, and then of course it is objective truth.<br /><br />What makes your good self and the Burd and some others stand out is that one can read and be engaged with an argument rooted in reality, rather than what Sir Tom Hunter rightly calls a 'playground fight' which is of little interest to most Scots.<br />Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-1660512378694234232013-11-16T16:39:28.968+00:002013-11-16T16:39:28.968+00:00But you looked so GOOD on TV!
Also, what about El...But you looked so GOOD on TV!<br /><br />Also, what about Elliott Bulmer? Wrote an article published in the Herald which the Herald refused to pay him for. The Herald knew Yes Scotland had asked him to write it but didn't make that clear. When it emerged that Yes Scotland had covered his fee, he was monstered even more viciously than you were.<br /><br />The implication there was that Elliott was for sale, and could be bought for £150. That a supposedly "neutral academic" had been nobbled. The fact that Elliott Bulmer has been a card-carrying member of the SNP for years seemed to be neither here nor there.<br /><br />Apparently an academic who identifies with the No side must be allowed full academic freedom to take any role he chooses and must be assumed to be neutral, but one who identifies with the Yes side is a shill and must be excluded from the debate.<br /><br />Oh yes, and the real scandal was that Yes Scotland's email account had been hacked, but instead of reporting that all the press went mad with "nationalist academic expresses opinion in pubic" shock horror.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.com