tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post8685449100219705132..comments2023-10-22T11:57:34.718+01:00Comments on A Pint of Unionist Lite: United Kingdom whiskey to gain from boycott of Scotch?O'Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02531858236570346203noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-33191983870215872482010-02-05T16:20:01.774+00:002010-02-05T16:20:01.774+00:00Spelling!!! Most Scottish whiskys are merely brand...Spelling!!! Most Scottish whiskys are merely brands which like most Irish whiskeys are owned by the likes of Diageo etc. Manys a pension relies on the performance of these shares, The impact of a boycott on these products may well impact more on the workers in these distilleries and the actual consumer than is thought. <br />Since when are the workers in these industries responsible for the Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13337418092426100439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-88360517408086044772009-08-31T14:41:37.515+01:002009-08-31T14:41:37.515+01:00Seems the bigots who are out to get him might just...Seems the bigots who are out to get him might just let his mouth do the work.<br /><br />I met my first Meghrahi "should have died in gaol" barbarian yesterday. My first!tonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-15414272937136060172009-08-29T13:47:40.389+01:002009-08-29T13:47:40.389+01:00"This is getting bizzare now."
Think so..."This is getting bizzare now."<br /><br />Think so?! Try this one, David Kerr has changed his mind three times up to last night on whether MacAskill was right or not to release him!!<br /><br /><br />http://www.localnewsglasgow.co.uk/2009/08/by-election-hopefuls-step-up/O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531858236570346203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-27720764331118949292009-08-28T22:35:59.444+01:002009-08-28T22:35:59.444+01:00This is getting bizzare now. The SNP website is ma...This is getting bizzare now. The SNP website is managing to spin a totally biased poll, don't really see the point apart from giving them something to do.<br /><br />My own experience is that dyed in the wool Labour types that I have been speaking to(who will vote labour no matter what) have been 100% behind the release. Most believe Meghrahi innocent even, some are embarrased by the tonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-59417152844213366582009-08-28T21:39:25.252+01:002009-08-28T21:39:25.252+01:00Another independent survey giving similar results:...Another independent survey giving similar results:<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/nfe2lwO'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531858236570346203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-84432891118899129292009-08-28T20:04:03.535+01:002009-08-28T20:04:03.535+01:00"That poll has so much wrong with it you woul..."That poll has so much wrong with it you wouldn't know where to start."<br /><br />Curiously enough the SNP have welcomed its findings:<br /><br />http://www.snp.org/node/15602<br /><br />YouGov are an independent polling company so it's not in their commercial interest to publish misleading or rely on biased samples. True in this case, the result is what the Mail wanted but youO'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531858236570346203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-52779724239580808512009-08-28T12:53:56.090+01:002009-08-28T12:53:56.090+01:00O'neil
That poll has so much wrong with it yo...O'neil<br /><br />That poll has so much wrong with it you wouldn't know where to start. Still if a newspaper that is no friend of Scotland in it's first ever Scotland wide poll, without info on the questions asked says the SNP have dropped slightly. Who am I to argue :¬) Also from the site itself;<br /><br />""EDIT: I don't tend to read the 'Political Party tonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-34017982283018100472009-08-27T16:52:48.104+01:002009-08-27T16:52:48.104+01:00Tony, I did say my views are what you would have r...Tony, I did say my views are what you would have read in a thousand other sites papers, hence my lack of a direct post on the subject; apparently though the SNp have taken a hit at the polls over it:<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/ldbk64<br /><br /><br />UU<br />If "humanitarian grounds" were the only grounds he was released on I'll be very surprised, but that's something we'O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531858236570346203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-5820495055783892112009-08-27T05:12:58.995+01:002009-08-27T05:12:58.995+01:00Personally, I've been boycotting Scotch whisky...Personally, I've been boycotting Scotch whisky for years based on the obvious superiority of our own Whiskey (even that northern proddy stuff).<br /><br />On the prisoner release, I have no objection to the man being released on humanitarian grounds, even if he <i>was</i> responsible for that horrific act. <br /><br />But, if he was released for the benefit of British Petroleum as some are Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-70806870821711076952009-08-26T22:23:22.249+01:002009-08-26T22:23:22.249+01:00You have answered my question well. Only it is you...You have answered my question well. Only it is your ignorance and petty anti-SNP jibe coming out to play. Quite a poor response in all ma man.<br /><br />>>I think if the *truth* ever hits the light of day, then it'll show:<br />how powerless MacAskill really was/is; it most certainly wasn't the SNP pulling the strings which count here.<<<br /><br />Pure and utter keek. Sure tonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-23701615094113733532009-08-26T19:52:31.720+01:002009-08-26T19:52:31.720+01:00"What is your view on the prisoner release?&q..."What is your view on the prisoner release?"<br /><br />I haven't got that much original to say, so I didn't so a separate post.<br /><br />I think if the *truth* ever hits the light of day, then it'll show:<br />how powerless MacAskill really was/is; it most certainly wasn't the SNP pulling the strings which count here.<br /><br />For whatever reason however they (and O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531858236570346203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008037633121035579.post-46013692414890791502009-08-26T17:58:10.882+01:002009-08-26T17:58:10.882+01:00Hello O'neil, lomg time no smell ;¬) ...Hello O'neil, lomg time no smell ;¬) <br /><br />What is your view on the prisoner release?<br /><br />Are you informed enough to realise that the petty politicking of Scottish(misnomer) Labour and Lib-Dems has probably undermined their electoral chances for a decade here?, I kid you not. The Tories also partook, but could their main target was seemed to be Broon. tonynoreply@blogger.com