I wouldn't say I always oppose violence - it's often the only option in times of systematic oppression (hence I think the War of Independence was justified but the Civil War wasn't, and De Valera was a fucking snake for what he did to Michael Collins.).

 

It's a moot point though - I wouldn't say the situations of Ireland in the 19th century, Catholics in Northern Ireland in the 20th century, and Scotland now have much to compare themselves other than secession being offered as a solution. Certainly Scots aren't being systematically oppressed right now - quite the opposite since devolution and the Barnett formula.

 

Sorry didn't see this yesterday.

 

Yeh it is rather different but as you say this isn't the 19th century and we have decent democratic government now so right wingers have to find some way to discriminate. So to find the reasons why Scotland wants independence you obv have to go the the old story of the post 1945 settlement and it's break up and link this again to the inadequacies of the uk system which have always existed.

But the question still remains whether there's anyone who'd be a shoo-in to be better than Ed. I'm having doubts about Burnham even tbh (is he going to have the backbone to not give in whenever the press start wailing about something?). Or Chuka Umunna who would send Labour's Northern heartlands the same way as Scotland quicker than you can say "trash and c-list wannabes".

That depends on whether you mean a leader who 'has the backbone to not give in whenever the press start wailing about something', or a leader who never gives in to the press. We've already got the former. You're never going to get the latter.

 

On the topic of alternate leaders though, you'll be pleased to know that Rachel Reeves won't be making an abortive attempt at the leadership - she categorically ruled out ever running for leader on Iain Dale's radio show the other week apparently. Her husband's the head of DEFRA, so I imagine she wouldn't want to force him to resign for the potential conflict of interest of the Prime Minister being married to a head of the civil service.

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Well now I'm just intrigued.

SPILL Danné!

Come on Danny, what did you want to say? :D

Someone has just pushed a UKIP leaflet through my door! bast*rd!

Someone has just pushed a UKIP leaflet through my door! bast*rd!

 

 

Go on, you know you want to vote for them really..... :lol:

Go on, you know you want to vote for them really..... :lol:

 

Oh how wrong you are!

Someone has just pushed a UKIP leaflet through my door! bast*rd!

Yes, I had one of those. I had to have a bath after picking it up.

could have been worse - could have been an 8 foot high granite block with bland platitudes on it :lol:

So Russell Brand is now fully endorsing Ed Miliband and the Labour Party (with the exception of Caroline Lucas in Brighton and noone in Scotland). It's just as well he didn't tell everybody not to vote, then wait until after voter registration closed to change his mind.

Still might make a difference. The voting split by age group in this election will be massive.

He didn't endorse no one in Scotland, he said that we know what to do:

 

"If you’re Scottish, you don’t need an English person telling you what to do, you know what to do."

 

We do indeed know what to do. We will vote SNP to end austerity. ^_^

So Russell Brand is now fully endorsing Ed Miliband and the Labour Party (with the exception of Caroline Lucas in Brighton and noone in Scotland). It's just as well he didn't tell everybody not to vote, then wait until after voter registration closed to change his mind.

 

well that should lose them some votes, being endorsed by Brand isn't something to brag about. On a par with Mr. Bean, only with added shagging and a dictionary.

Got back to my parents house just now as a bunch of tory w*n**rs were canvassing. two of them nearly got run over by my car. The third was stranding by the door. As I got out the car he was like "welcome home" I said 5 words. "I'm an SNP member, go". And off he f***ed. It was GLORIOUS

He didn't endorse no one in Scotland, he said that we know what to do:

 

"If you’re Scottish, you don’t need an English person telling you what to do, you know what to do."

 

We do indeed know what to do. We will vote SNP to end austerity. ^_^

Why on Earth would you do that?

 

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii613/Charlie_Mayer/ac279b98-35e6-4176-887a-074ba8e7f233_zpsdgoihxlf.png

:basil:

Got back to my parents house just now as a bunch of tory w*n**rs were canvassing. two of them nearly got run over by my car. The third was stranding by the door. As I got out the car he was like "welcome home" I said 5 words. "I'm an SNP member, go". And off he f***ed. It was GLORIOUS

No, what you are supposed to do is to pretend there is a chance you might vote Tory and engage him in conversation for a while, thereby reducing the number of homes he can visit.

You're committing to billions upon billions of cuts over the next few years, we're not. Even if Labour will spend more in the final year of parliament there's still years of cuts to public services and the welfare system to get through yet. Plus the waste of £100bn on a weapon system we don't need.

 

Spending more in 5 years doesn't mean you're ending austerity. Claimin otherwise is completely contradictory to what every senior labour figure has been saying for the past 4 years