tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post5309856208016081274..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: "She wore a blue collar..."Lallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-78416001182005534442016-03-30T07:34:16.207+01:002016-03-30T07:34:16.207+01:00"Davidson is surely Cameron's chapette in..."Davidson is surely Cameron's chapette in Scotland ?"<br /><br />Of courrse she is. They bent the leadership competition rules to bring her in, all the party grandees lined up to endorse her, and they made damn sure Murdo Fraser didn't win.<br /><br />She's far more of a branch manager than any Scottish Labour leader ever was.jt1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13742663983317218305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-1924699408541617152016-03-28T11:48:02.078+01:002016-03-28T11:48:02.078+01:00Ruth " remain in the EU no matter what" ...Ruth " remain in the EU no matter what" Davidson is surely Cameron's chapette in Scotland ?<br />Her stated intent to campaign for the end of democracy and our sovereign right to self determination within the UK even before Cameron had completed his feeble flop of a non-renegotation of the terms of our unwarranted surrender of those priceless rights to corporate despotism rather rams that point home.<br /><br />Such shall be our lot if you and she succeed in your pitiful campaign: perpetual poodledom,to become wretched fools who threw away their democratic birthright for nothing, to blindly, impotently follow whatever diktats our masters in Washington and Bruxelles might decree with that snap their fingers which you and the SNP fear to ignore, and which Ruth and the Tories exist to serve.<br />.<br />If Cameron fails to win his second Campaign Fear, this time to put at an end end all real, effective, representative British democracy, if the will of the British people favours democracy and representative, accountable government in this kingdom, his treachery will run into the sand and his regime shrivel and die faster than a cinematic vampire touched by the light of a democratic dawn.<br /> <br />And as they watch this horror of freedom and democracy unfold before their appalled eyes ,his loyal Scotch Generals in Campaign Fear II ...Davidson Sturgeon and Dugdale and whatever wretched little man commands the Lib-Dems will have little time to lament this damnable assertion of our rights.<br />Their time will have passed along with their unexplainable fear of real democracy...<br /><br />but never mind,both Scotland and England might then want independence, and real democracy, in which anyone can stand for parliament, even men,irrespective of gender..<br /><br />or is that too much democracy for your comfort ?<br /> too much freedom for you who prefer to usurp the rights of sovereign nation states with a crony capitalist corporate cabal.?<br /> Is such power in the hands of common people wasted when you seek an unaccountable, all powerful , a bureaucratic nightmare with a rubber-stamp parliament of powerless Eurotoadies in place of democracy justice and the rule of our common law ?<br /><br />or just too much altogether for self appointed morally superiour dickheads to contemplate?<br /><br /> <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16633222924771244170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-62970929726518357022016-03-28T10:32:03.776+01:002016-03-28T10:32:03.776+01:00Ruth Davidson said in the Big Big Debate before th...Ruth Davidson said in the Big Big Debate before the Indy Ref that she/her party were not in favour of a more equal society.<br />After all, she's a Tory. That's what they do.Brotyboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16033816796226681381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-36790224871162150282016-03-27T15:36:34.886+01:002016-03-27T15:36:34.886+01:00To be an outstandingly boring politician in the al...To be an outstandingly boring politician in the already oppressively boring theatre of Scottish politics takes something. Contrary to dogma - put about even by Labour! - that is the only extent to which Ruth Davidson is politically talented.<br /><br />This blog is obviously correct in its identification of her favourite non-sequitur: an appeal to background made as though to answer a question about policy.<br /><br />One can't forgive Davidson her woeful attempts to court public sympathy but one can understand such attempts. For a swath of Scotland legitimacy clearly trumps authority. To exemplify: how much popular disappointment does one sense when moral answers given to economic questions in Hollyrood? You don't want to cut the taxes 'middle Scotland' because...? Real 'middle Scotland' and 'working Scotland' are struggling and won't see a cut and that 'isn't right'. Excuse me: was that not the force of much of Nicola Sturgeon's response to a recent budget proposition from Westminster?<br /><br />I think this blog does something hypocritical after it scorns Ruth Davidson's blue collar façade.<br /><br />"Your autobiography has become a convenient mask, to distract the people [...] from the gulf separating your political ideals and the priorities you are actually pursuing."<br /><br />One can only be agnostic about the gulf alluded to. The policies of the Scottish Conservatives remain largely unimplemented after all. And if I now say, as a long-suffering (ha!) participant in 'working-Scotland', never having earned more than £20K PA, that the steadily increasing Personal Allowance, (artificially) increased minimum wages, married persons tax relief and all the rest of it has done me no end of favours, what will be said in reply? (Still) that the Scottish Tories are not 'of the working people'? That a Scottish Government with the same powers would've done the same?<br /><br />To end on a note of agreement: of course the bottom-line here is accurate. Ruth Davidson will get nowhere by telling people that she was brought-up to expect nothing. She'll only earn contempt - despite the fact that she might actually do something worthwhile in power.<br /><br />Of course, much worse than her blue-collar crap is her pliancy to public opinion. Oh! Is there anything worse? Against more devo'. For more devo'. Blah blah. She'd have more of a market if she preoccupied herself with having done with fatuous things like the 'Football Act'; getting out of the EU, suggesting that the NHS has had its day, saying that we're too keen to lift people for what they say (and so on). It mightn't be a big market but hey - it wouldn't be boring.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-7134744393424029922016-03-27T12:34:04.571+01:002016-03-27T12:34:04.571+01:00I read with interest and agree with the blog in it...I read with interest and agree with the blog in its meaning and conclusion,with a few bits of my own that I would add:Firstly Ruth Davidson is one who I think deceives herself or perhaps she has been deceived and is a little naive,to me I see somebody who wants to join in a party to belong to something.She also comes over as looking for a career and really any party would have done as long as it is a rock steady party and one that would accept her,provisionally the Conservative party does accept her.She will have a place to be able to rise to and that and no further,but she may not realise yet.I look and see her as having a ready smile but it looks a little nervous or insincere,perhaps just me,but I'm not sure of her,and maybe many other are similar and not convinced of her.Charles O'Brien.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10778040983298966024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-53631579504165815702016-03-26T23:01:45.671+00:002016-03-26T23:01:45.671+00:00Well said and argued with conviction - Ruth is sel...Well said and argued with conviction - Ruth is selling (well, hawking...it remains to be seen if anyone's buying) an Easter egg of a policy...all sweet and pretty omg the outside, wrapped in the gold foil of "compassionate conservatism", and tied with a lovely ribbon of "I grew up poor", but ultimate, when you bite into the chocolate, it's as hollow on the inside as one of them disappointing sickly things they'll be discounting in tescos on monday morning.<br /><br />She personally might be saying all the nice things (middle-Scotland rubbish aside), but even if she is, and even if she actually genuinely believes it, it doesn't matter, because on the inside, the Tory party is still the same old men (with some few ladies), talking about their land, their privilege, espousing the kind of views the majority dumped 40 years ago.<br />They just got better at hiding it.Math Campbell-Sturgesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160117071844262713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-89675559831327731762016-03-26T15:18:22.897+00:002016-03-26T15:18:22.897+00:00Well argued and cited Mr Worrier. And well done fo...Well argued and cited Mr Worrier. And well done for avoiding the obvious conclusion about what Ms Davidson might look like to the class she grew up in. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com