tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post7332592778519801395..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: Which MSP has the X-Factor?Lallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-32289311414260102112011-07-10T04:40:44.916+01:002011-07-10T04:40:44.916+01:00God forgive me, I omitted Fletcher of Saltoun, the...God forgive me, I omitted Fletcher of Saltoun, the Scots avocat, and the 1820 martyrs with Ian Hamilton QC, Airlie and Reid and unsung others - Sinn Fheinn and United Scotsmen and many, many others along with the Landleaguers and Scottish Gaucho and MacDiarmid - and multitudinous others including the Scottish Brigade in the anti-Francoist, Spanish Civil War(s).<br /><br />The list goes on...Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975588480290026016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-80508220558754976592011-07-10T04:24:22.364+01:002011-07-10T04:24:22.364+01:00Am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the ...Am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the "Gandhi Solution" will not work vis a vis Caledonian-Albion relations (the increasing additions to the hump of the midden, since the "Union", not helping any residual, "psychologically" indoctrinated, knee-jerk pap inculcated into me and my peers throughout mine and their formative years - parents, schools and variants on the Kirk as well as assorted apparatuses of the "British 'State'" as wannabe world player, ad infinitum, included in the collective 'gob-shite' of their weasel words repeatedly found against as aggressions by international, judicial forums - the devolved "parliament" in Alba being one recent, parochial example of the self-same, collusionalist elites being forced into international compliance - the UN and Council of Europe -in "granting" us, the people of Scotland our own gerry-mandered "democratic" edificial outlet to vent steam in a substitute steamie).<br /><br />A unilateral Jacobin solution accompanied by our ain Sans Cullottes seems to be increasingly the more realistic, speedy and morally attractive option in the face of the Fabius Cunctator delaying ploys of of the decaying vestiges of the "'British' State" and its Jock comprador, Anglo-Pale elements - a root and branch pollarding of all dead wood in the Commonweal (including Scots Law and the "upper"-echelons of our educational system (et al)) to re-configure us not only compliant to internationally encoded standards of decency, but to carve out new vistas in the essential spirit of the Scottish Enlightenment mak't good for the world today and its multi-various peoples, ethnicities, nations and aspirant, and languages and cultures.<br /><br />The legacies of Paine and Robespierre and Gandhi and MacLean and Connelly and Joe Slovo and Mandela and Lygate and Martin Luther King still abide along with Burns and countless others in their sacrifices for human progress, mutual tolerance/embracement and enlightenment.<br /><br />Enough of this guff and let educators and lawyers step upto the plate.<br /><br />Kindest<br />DaibhidhDavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975588480290026016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-66011020508226952532011-07-09T17:55:58.376+01:002011-07-09T17:55:58.376+01:00May I draw your attention to the interests declare...May I draw your attention to the interests declared by the former speaker, Old Etonian Alex Fergusson?<br /><br />It seems he has farmland valued at between £200K-250K and has rental income for a windfarm of £40K-45K pa (I recall that in previous years the figure was £50K). Assuming the windfarm is located on the farmland then that is a remarkable rate of return, for, in effect, doing nothing. <br /><br />I suppose that's one of the benefits of a good education.hector mcglashannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-47552711461611395032011-07-09T14:22:08.018+01:002011-07-09T14:22:08.018+01:00"hidden shallows" - beautiful!!!"hidden shallows" - beautiful!!!RobertArnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15640603367211373629noreply@blogger.com