Comments on: Scottish blogging; proxy blogging; me

By: doctorvee » Double standards and a speck of black

doctorvee » Double standards and a speck of black — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:00:07 +0000

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By: BOYCOTT TESCO

BOYCOTT TESCO — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:23:57 +0000

We call on Tesco to issue an apology for allowing it’s Chairman, David Reid, to become involved in politics and using his position to unfairly influence an election.

If Tesco wishes to alienate millions of pro-independence customers then it cannot expect those customers to lend their support to Tesco.

We the undersigned are electing not to shop at Tesco until a statement and apology has been issued.

SIGN AT LINK BELOW PLEASE:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/unionist-tesco/index.html

By: Stuart Dickson

Stuart Dickson — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:30:01 +0000

Ta.

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:31:41 +0000

Regarding the proxy-blogs, I’m still thinking things over. If I were to go for starting up a proxy blog again, it would be either the Gordon Brown one or the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath one, but not both – there’d be too much overlap I reckon. The plan would have been to start out with the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath one, and then that would go on to become a Gordon Brown / whoever (as if) proxy blog.

Given what you have said, I may well just go for having a Gordon Brown proxy blog from the very beginning. I’ll wait and see if I get more feedback, though, and think about it.

Good luck with the blog.

By: Stuart Dickson

Stuart Dickson — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:12:18 +0000

Hello.

You probably said far too many nice things about the SSP’s European Election manifesto last year to be considered a true centrist, although you did say that they were too socialist and anti-Europe for your liking.

I call myself a centrist too, although others would claim that I am a “libertarian” – whatever that means. Where the heck is “the centre” anyway? That Political Compass thing is very confusing.

Yes, of course you can still do a Gordon Brown proxy blog, but just omit the letters MP, because as you say during the election he is simply an ordinary candidate like everyone else.

I’ll remove the “(defunct?)” label from the “Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath votes” and “Gordon Brown MP” blogs unless you wish otherwise. I’ll leave the label on the other 1, unless you say different.

Hope my blog can be of some use/entertaining/informative, or lamentably poor. I’m new to the game – only time will tell.

By: Lose the Delusion

Lose the Delusion — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

or Welsh nationalists as they deploy against Europe: the right to exercise national sovereignty, the right to rule themselves, the lack of democracy, the imposition of regulations from outside, etc. Well maybe now we will have a chance to find out. Via Doctorvee , please welcome what might well be the first Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP)/Scottish nationalist blog: Independence. Let’s see how well the loons can fight their own arguments! My bet is that they can’t. By their logic, if British should have a right