Category Politics
ON THE UK GENERAL ELECTION RESULT
Depending on your political point of view here is a fact which is either sobering, or which says something rather profound about the thinking of the British people: UKIP is now the 3rd largest party in British politics in terms of vote share. Under Proportional Representation UKIP would have 83 seats in Parliament: 39% of […]
OPEN LETTER TO THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE FOR MORAY
This week I received a flyer from the Scottish Conservative candidate for Moray. His name is Douglas Ross and I know him personally. I respect Mr Ross as a politician; he has done great work for me in dealings I’ve had in the past with the breathtakingly inept and incompetent bureaucrats who wield most of the power […]
VOTE UKIP! ARE YOU CRAZY?
Well, yes actually, and that’s the great thing about the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). UKIP embraces crazy, in the non-clinical sense of the word, of course. UKIP embraces that crazy which is defined as ‘extremely enthusiastic’. This is just a quick post a propos nothing much at all really, other than that the minor political parties […]
JE SUIS CHARLIE
What on earth has happened in France this week? One of the biggest issues faced by my children’s generation is this. How do the European political elites intend to govern our societies such that they balance having an enemy within with (to quote the British Labour Party) “rubbing [our] noses in diversity”? How do we deal with […]
MESSAGE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER
My Fellow British Citizens Here’s the griff. A British citizen has been beheaded somewhere in the Middle East by a bunch of Islamic Fundamentalist nutjobs. Indeed, a fellow Brit has beheaded him as far we can tell. It makes you think the world is going mad, doesn’t it? But then again look at it this […]
TIME TO DECLARE WAR ON THE ISLAMIC STATE?
All this stuff with the Islamic State crew is certainly making The Powers That Be (TPTB) hot under the collar, isn’t it? The slaughter of James Foley was barbaric. Generally speaking war is barbaric, even when it’s fought within “rules”, so to speak. However, I’m going to need some convincing that we – the UK, […]
BRITAIN UNDER ATTACK – ANY DAY NOW
The Prime Minister was talking today at Prime Minster’s Questions in the House of Commons. According to Sky News and other mainstream media sources, the Prime Minister reckons that unless we go and do something in Iraq (quite what we should do is not clear), then “ISIS (which stands for ‘Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’) […]
ON POLITICS RECENTLY AND THE MIGRATION OF PEOPLES
A Remarkable Political Result It’s perhaps hard to overstate the significance of the recent elections in England and Wales, and in the European Union (EU) of which of course the UK is a member. For the first time in British history a political party, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), with no Members of Parliament, […]
WENSLEY DALE SPEAKS HIS MIND – ON ELECTORAL REFORM
This is a Guest Post from Wensley Dale I have sometimes read your blog, Moraymint, and I share some of your concerns about the future. There are so many big changes taking place at the moment many of which both interact and have their own momentum. I suppose, however, that is generally the case but […]
ON REMEMBRANCE
My old mucker O’Reilly of the Hip Flask (see my earlier ‘Declaration of Arbroath’ post) contacted me by email this evening; he and I served in the same Regiment, many moons ago. O’Reilly brought to my attention a post on another blog, that of ‘Wings Over Scotland’ which is hosted by the Reverend Stuart Campbell. […]
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