Can you imagine how a formal complaint about the comment ‘Rory Bremner can pretend to be Tony Blair’ would be composed?
‘Dear SFA, a rude man’s joke hurt our feelings. Tell him straight, no more jokes!’
I clicked onto the NEW club’s site to confirm their reaction. As well as complaining about a joke [it wouldn’t hurt if it wasn’t true], they complain about the Daily Record, “the paper is riddled from top to bottom with an anti-Rangers bias”, just to prove they also have a sense of humour.
They also attempted to put a stake in the ground by affirming that Pinsent Masons, now representing Scotland’s champions and sole Champions League participants, did not report to the police that Craig Whyte has any connection to the club/company.
No one has ever suggested that Pinsent Masons made such a report. This is a bit like insisting that Ally McCoist will not manage the Champions League winners this season. Pinsent Masons were far too busy taking instructions from their top client’s chief executive, in his non-comedic role.
What a laugh!
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Dan
Just back in– thanks for that feedback and the compliments on the article.
I find it absolutely astonishing that practically none of that was published in the MSM — I honestly despair at that.
Canamalar/Earnie
As an aside to your debate, I have always thought that if I could wave a magic wand and change one thing about our Parliamentary system and constitution, it would be to pass a law which limited the number of three line whips in any parliamentary session to twelve!
The houses of Parliament are so desperately regulated on party and whip lines that we have lost conviction politics altogether and only by controlling the whip system will you ever get it back.
I know it won’t happen, as I have no faith in any political party to go anywhere near such a suggestion.
I could never have followed a career in politics as I would have been sacked or resigned due to failing to attend any meeting whatsoever without disagreeing with everyone else.
Lucky for politics and the electorate eh?
Ernie..,
We dont know because they never tried, and we’ll never know because they never tried.
Or do you have a crystal ball, you might think you know but if your honest with yourself you really dont know, you can make an educated guess but thats all it will ever be because you dont know.
Billy Bhoy 05
19:08 on 16 November, 2013
Magnificent 7
I agree with your argument on the coalition but you must know Labour invented this tax and as I said earlier Pairing shouldn’t have been agreed on a subject of such importance. Labour set this up and made no attempt to rally the troops. Unfortunately we will never know if the vote would have been successful
as no one on this site knows how many of the coalition were not available for the vote . It was a bloody charade !
you need to fight the battles you can win, anyone in the Government not paired would have been instructed to vote, do you really think otherwise?
Willie Nelson’s take on cheating.
BRTH,
I would go further, I’d get rid of the whip system altogether, when I first learned about it at school I decided that the UK was a sham democracy, if anything the more I’ve learned abot UK politics the more entrenched in that belief I have become.
Magnificentseven supporting Oscar all the way 19:02 on 16 November, 2013
“To what effect? To make them feel good about themselves?”
No. To convince the growing number of disillusioned voters that the Labour Party is going to represent their views.
As you said: the priority is getting the Coalition out. In order to do that you have to convince people you are worth voting for.
Tory voters are well aware their interests are served by their party. The message from the Labour Party appears to be ‘sod-off if you are not middle class‘.
The vote on the bedroom tax was a chance missed by Labour to send a strong message to people that they will fight their corner.
FourGreenFields Supports Resolution 12 at the AGM.
Are you going to be the last man standing tonight.
BRTH
Why do you find it astonishing that the MSM didn’t report it?
I would have found it astonishing if they did.
Obviously it wasn’t important enough for Labour: an absolute disgrace to the people who voted for them.
The Bedroom Tax…Not worth the effort
1-0 to Wales great move finished off with an Andy King shoulder/header.
Hail Hail.
BRTH,
Your very welcome, and the way it’s been reported in Scotland is a disgrace, but not a surprise to me. Listening to them on Radio Scotland on the Thursday evening it was obvious they had an agenda. For some of them it is simply Lazy Journalism, but in my opinion for the majority its quite simply when the opportunity arises “make Celtic look as bad as you can”.
Just sent an idea to Paul re for the true facts of the story to perhaps get out to a bigger audience. If you and Paul think it’s a goer happy to assist in any way I can.
Dan
Winning Captains
Cheers my copy arrived today while I was out, all I can say is wow wow wow. Great work from all those involved. The wife wont be to chuffed though as she’ll be getting ignored for the next few days.
Re res 12, what about the case of Atletico Madrid. By 2011, they owed the Spanish tax man £176m. The tax authorities had refused to sign off their accounts from the previous four years. The Spanish FA continued to licence them and UEFA turned a blind eye…and remembering in 2011-12 they knocked Celtic out of Europe before going on to win the Europa League. Supposedly, they reached a repayment agreement on the tax, but what do you know, they fell behind in the schedule.
UEFA withheld their prize money from 2011-12, but there was no suggestion they should have their licence revoked. If they did that, people might say what about the £40m in back taxes Barcelona have yet to pay…and what about…and what about…………..
kikinthenakas
Glad your home safe pal,you’ve survived the Southern,
will I?
ps…what a great job them tim porter’s do….we’re very
deep in enemy territory.
Billy Bhoy 05
19:17 on 16 November, 2013
‘Obviously it wasn’t important enough for Labour: an absolute disgrace to the people who voted for them.
The Bedroom Tax…Not worth the effort’
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What about the SNP MPs who failed to vote against the legislation on previous occasions?
Ernie……………You’re wasting your time mate, you’ve won the argument hands down, logic usually does.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
19:15 on 16 November, 2013
Don’t most legislatures have a similar system?
bawsman,
I disagree, ernie is arguing on party lines and those who have been let down are being ignored when the argument turns to tit for tat party politic, the victims of this issue should have been better represented.
Ernie..,
Your point ?
Eddie…,
Fair points, so we should simply drop it then ?
Bada bing
Once a hun always a Hun.
I have two very close friends, one from Dennistoun and the other from North Ayrshire. When I first met them 30 odd years ago they were Huns. They are not Huns now and this is because Hunnery goes against their political beliefs. This transformation began during the nineties when the Huns sang English songs and wore English shirts. This was just too much for them. My Ayrshire pal told me when at school – a proddy one – a boy came to school wearing an English shirt and he got dogs abuse: and he was English.
A definite positive by product of wanting the English government away from our country.
Ryecatcher/Dan
I could have believed they would have got the story wrong or misinterpreted certain bits or whatever.
But to COMPLETELY miss the Noodbevel line when it was all over the Dutch press is frankly astonishing.
Canamalar
I was speaking to someone today and reminded of the couple of times I met the late Harry McShane — I think once was in the Smiddy?
Anyway, he was always very persuasive in his argument. Never a tub thumper, more a theorist and a thinker but a real red Clydesider who thought about politics and how you changed things and what the changes would mean.
Living a lie has it’s downside ….one leaves oneself open to ribaldry
More ribaldry. So the huns are using weapons of mass hysteria upset at the Bremner Blair Bigot bash.
I wonder if Comical Ally played a gas part?
ernie lynCH…….WHITabOutery……walk the walk
dont talk the talk…….thik As feCk sellick FAN
canamalar
e-mail sent
I wasn’t going to do this but……
You know, even by the low standards of Labour apologists this latest pairings rubbish is scraping the bottom of the barrel.
The question of attendance whether it would have made a difference or not is not the point. The infamous 10 who represent Scottish constituents who are vehemently opposed to the bedroom tax have been hung out to dry by their MPs – that is the issue, nothing more nothing less. They did not do what they have been elected to do and that is both shameful and real proof if any were needed as to the way things will go in the future if you vote no. This is the party who claim to have the Scottish people’s interests at heart but continually we can see this isn’t really the case.
Anyone defending this should be having a good look at themselves.
And of course we get an attempt to link the SNP to fascism and now antisemitism in a less than subtle way for those of us who can read through snidey nonsense while we’re fed a PR story to make the glorious party look good. Classic smear playbook 101.
Did the spin doctors hand you that one did you google it or are you a Douglas Alexander fanboy Ernie?
For the record the no show in the commons has been followed up with further no shows from one prominent MP who claimed on TV in the worst example of debating I’ve ever seen that “we’d scrap the bedroom tax tomorrow if we were in power” while not voting against said tax when he had the chance. Staggering hypocrisy but the Labour party are very good at that.
Any explanation for the further no shows or was he off saving the world somewhere?
snake ! : )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Snake Plisken
Good to see u back posting buddy.
Hope u are well
Hail Hail
Snake
You have a lot to say for a colonial
Snake Plissken
19:45 on 16 November, 2013
Actually I picked up on the story on a political site before the cyber gnats raised it on here.
You’re all too predictable.
Margaret McGill…..
more of a Gasgit….sounds french when CG says it …
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
19:33 on 16 November, 2013
I think Harry McShane would have described himself more as an activist than as a theorist or thinker.
Whatever he was he was a remarkable and principled character.
Pukki scores for Finland
Pukki scoring ….interesting concept…even showed a turn of pace …even more interesting
Tony Blair on celebrity “the chase” now on Stv
HH
1-1 Riski levels it up in stoppage time.
All political parties are archaic, self serving and dangerous.
I will be voting Yes for Scotland.
Hail Hail.
Vespacide……
braw……….
Ernie….principled and politician should NEVER appear in the same sentence.It should be a basic law in any language.