tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7223882302966632342.post8170349155288767014..comments2023-04-01T05:28:47.346-07:00Comments on dougies place: What next? Politics as a spectator sport.douglas clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11422060678908705962noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7223882302966632342.post-57674442611646297252010-05-15T18:25:23.880-07:002010-05-15T18:25:23.880-07:00'Course, if I actually understood HTML and shi...'Course, if I actually understood HTML and shit....<br /><br />I would be a lot better.douglas clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11422060678908705962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7223882302966632342.post-59654400615787851892010-05-15T18:20:51.485-07:002010-05-15T18:20:51.485-07:00Rab o'Ruglen,
Thanks for what you have to say...Rab o'Ruglen,<br /><br />Thanks for what you have to say. It is very encouraging. This is an attempt to be modern.<br /><br /><i>in the meantime I think the most important thing we can do is to develop some sort of alternative media that will give us a fairer crack of the whip than the outrageously biased media we have at present, and you are already participating in that activity with your blog. Who known where that might lead in a few years.</i><br /><br />I'd have thought that is what we, you and me, ought to be trying to do.douglas clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11422060678908705962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7223882302966632342.post-31853021654181524062010-05-15T14:55:01.784-07:002010-05-15T14:55:01.784-07:00Hi Dougie,
I have been feeling your exasperation ...Hi Dougie,<br /><br />I have been feeling your exasperation for the last thirty years or more. The Labour party still talks about the SNP having brought down the Calaghan Government and allowed Thatcher's entry to Downing Street when I remember that not even the threat of losing a no-confidence vote could make them implement their own manifesto commitment to bring forward devolution after the rigged referendum failed to deliver a decisive vote. A referendum rigged by an amendment proposed by one of their own MP's - George Cunningham.<br /><br />What I have found though is that over that period, despite the SNP's electoral fortunes waning on occasion, the movement seems to come back even stronger when it rallies the next time.<br /><br />So do not loose heart. The most important thing is that those of us who believe in Independence keep active, such that when the next wave breaks, we can push it even further up the shore than the last time and I predict that when the Scots eventually do turn against the Labour Party that that revolt will be extremely fast and complete.<br /><br />In the meantime I think the most important thing we can do is to develop some sort of alternative media that will give us a fairer crack of the whip than the outrageously biased media we have at present, and you are already participating in that activity with your blog. Who known where that might lead in a few years.<br /><br />Keep up the good work.<br /><br />Regards,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com