And as for the Welsh Tories, completely lost the plot.
"To all those people who feel let down by Plaid Cymru's failure to act as the party of Wales, I say come and join us."
Nick Bourne, Tory assembly group leader
He told delegates that the Conservatives made policies in Wales and backed new legislation on issues such as the Welsh language.
Great stuff....that should really turn around your fortunes, nothing like addressing the electorate’s core concerns, making sure your policies on bin-collection can now be read in Welsh.
Alternatively, now about you stop paffing about and start fighting for that very substantial part of the Welsh population, who want nothing to do with the separatist agenda?
Monday, October 1, 2007
Goldie Banging the Drum* For EVEL
Meanwhile, Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie told a fringe meeting she would fight any UK General Election north of the Border on the same three themes as May's Holyrood contest.
You’d hope (as the wing of the party which earlier on this year briefly considered renaming itself the "Scottish Unionist party") there’d be at least some mention of fighting the pernicious effects of devolution...
They are a £1 billion blitz on drugs and crime, the biggest boost for home ownership in Scotland since the right to buy, and a big cut in council tax for pensioners.
...you’d, however, hope in vain.
Instead Annabel, preempting tomorrow’s expected Tory answer to the "West Lothian Question", said:
it was wrong for Scottish MPs to have a say on English domestic matters when English MPs had no say on Scottish domestic issues.
She added: "I think that's provocative, I think it's de-stabilising and it has to be addressed because, if it's not addressed, I think that will fester, I fear that will eat away and corrode the very basis of the mutual respect and the sense of an aggregate benefit which we all feel being part of the United Kingdom.".
All true, but in order to build up that "sense of mutual respect and sense of aggregate benefit", you should be attacking harder the core of the problem, devolution and the SNP's Little Scotlander mentality, not trying to further split the basis of our parliamentary system and as a consequence, the Union itself.
*Anyone get the music reference?
You’d hope (as the wing of the party which earlier on this year briefly considered renaming itself the "Scottish Unionist party") there’d be at least some mention of fighting the pernicious effects of devolution...
They are a £1 billion blitz on drugs and crime, the biggest boost for home ownership in Scotland since the right to buy, and a big cut in council tax for pensioners.
...you’d, however, hope in vain.
Instead Annabel, preempting tomorrow’s expected Tory answer to the "West Lothian Question", said:
it was wrong for Scottish MPs to have a say on English domestic matters when English MPs had no say on Scottish domestic issues.
She added: "I think that's provocative, I think it's de-stabilising and it has to be addressed because, if it's not addressed, I think that will fester, I fear that will eat away and corrode the very basis of the mutual respect and the sense of an aggregate benefit which we all feel being part of the United Kingdom.".
All true, but in order to build up that "sense of mutual respect and sense of aggregate benefit", you should be attacking harder the core of the problem, devolution and the SNP's Little Scotlander mentality, not trying to further split the basis of our parliamentary system and as a consequence, the Union itself.
*Anyone get the music reference?
The Whitewash Continues
The fire service has said reports that a tribute to officers who helped in the aftermath of the Enniskillen bomb has been removed are incorrect.
Unbelievable.
It said what was removed was a montage of photographs of victims of the 1987 IRA atrocity and a picture of Enniskillen cenotaph.
Oh, that’s ok then.
"Following complaint from a member of staff, it was removed from a wall in the town's station," read a statement
What kind of low-life scum would make such a complaint about such a memorial?
And what kind of society do we live in, when such low-life scum’s opinions are even given the time of day, never mind acted upon?
Time for all decent people to wake-up and realised the history of the last thirty years is being completely *revised* before our very eyes.
Footnote:
The BBC report can be seen here (Real Player needed).
Unbelievable.
It said what was removed was a montage of photographs of victims of the 1987 IRA atrocity and a picture of Enniskillen cenotaph.
Oh, that’s ok then.
"Following complaint from a member of staff, it was removed from a wall in the town's station," read a statement
What kind of low-life scum would make such a complaint about such a memorial?
And what kind of society do we live in, when such low-life scum’s opinions are even given the time of day, never mind acted upon?
Time for all decent people to wake-up and realised the history of the last thirty years is being completely *revised* before our very eyes.
Footnote:
The BBC report can be seen here (Real Player needed).
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