Gordon Brown - go to the back of the class, don the dunce's cap and stay there.
After having written out five hundred times, 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'.
In his piece in the 'graph today he writes "when our country is being challenged in Scotland, Wales and now England by secessionists" and uses 'Britain' or 'Great Britain' some four times before he refers to the United Kingdom, although a helpful sub-editor has entitled the article 'We need a United Kingdom'.
I will accept no lectures on the Union from Brown until the party he aspires to lead ceases to reject membership applications from Ulster.
In his piece in the 'graph today he writes "when our country is being challenged in Scotland, Wales and now England by secessionists" and uses 'Britain' or 'Great Britain' some four times before he refers to the United Kingdom, although a helpful sub-editor has entitled the article 'We need a United Kingdom'.
I will accept no lectures on the Union from Brown until the party he aspires to lead ceases to reject membership applications from Ulster.
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fuck ulster, fuck scotland and fuck wales, we english do not benefit in any way from being tied to them.
I like Wales Peter but feel much the same way. It was inevitable that the lying Scotsman was going to go all unionist given that he hopes to rule the country with Scottish seats like a hereditary Monarch. I still feel it is highly likely that he will go to the country early. The invidious position he is in can only make him less popular and the economy is starting the go very badly wrong.
Prepare for battle , we shall prevail and on that bright morning we awake to Conservative Government we will tend the wounds this bleeding country .
Hitchens, your a twit whoever you are.
The English could learn lots from our Celtic neighbours. Service with a smile is just one example.
Now go away and stop annoying me.
Brown has understood how he can disappear without trace like his friend Maxton if the little Amigoland of Scotland became his circumscribed world.
He has still not fathomed just how loathed he is in England........but he will make Blair look like he was England's favoured son when Gollum steps up to the plate to hit the first ball
3.02. Typos should be ignored, spelling mistakes marked, 'sp.', in red for those of the prescriptive tendency , infelicities of style regretted and discussed, but usage displaying an inadequate internalisation of the formal requirements of English (which should hold up under all and any conditions, even to the last , choose own example of 'last' ) are very irritating.
Gascoyne Cecil Juniors get it right.
No-one is more responsible for the breaking up of the union of the United Kingdom than NuLabour.
From memory, there are now 12 'regions' of the UK, these regions being delineated by European Union statistics -gathering requirements; they are Scotland, Wales, six of the counties of Ulster (the other three being in the Republic) and England divided into nine. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have elected regional assemblies (well NI sometimes has ) Only Greater London has an elected regional assembly (with drastically reduced powers once it became clear that Ken was going to walk it) in England.
The other English Assemblies are a mixture of appointed representatives, and nominated elected representatives from lower bodies, approved by central government.
Scotland, Wales and, to a lesser extent, NI and GLA, have the bit between their teeth and direct contacts with Brussels, as well as direct access to Brussels money.
The other inappropriately defined English regions, which defy economic reason, local links, culture and history, are NuLabour placemen power bases. (ditto the dosh)
This is not at the behest of the EU. Although the UK does not have an easy way of benefitting from the EU the way NuLabour has deformed the UK to make it do so is reprehensible and unnecessary; it now has major problems with so-called devolution that could lead to its dissolution.
Broon also managed to blame the Conservative and Unionist party for secessionist acts.
idiot.
3.02 I got so cross about the Uk I kept it up over an apostophe; quite wrong of me not to change gear
Another marvellous post from HG .Jeremy Jacobs you pompous prat PHITCH is expressing in his distinctive way the feelings a at least half of the English.
The Barnett Formula and democratic deficit are not sustainable and Scottish people never smile unless they have stolen your money . Its wall to wall grins right now ,as what was a shabby stitch up in the first place unravels at accelerating pace
It is hugely satisfying to watch Broon and Blair, each in their different ways, betraying panic over what their respective inheritance / legacy will be.
Brown is appalled that his writ may not run over an integral UK. Blair is appalled that Broon's 1st 100 days will be spent dismantling things he hoped he had set in concrete (grandiose foreign policy, Trident etc).
Both men's nightmares must be bravura, technicolor horrors, set to a score by Holst.
Both sets of ferrets are goading, baiting, briefing and leaking.
2007 is going to be great!
'..I will accept no lectures on the Union from Brown until the party he aspires to lead ceases to reject membership applications from Ulster.'
Would you explain? Why won't they? What possible reason excludes people in the UK from joining any party they fancy?
HG - More, much more, here
It is a site set up by Labour supporters in NI who wish to join Labour.
Some highlights:
"The Labour Party bans people living in Northern Ireland from becoming individual members of the Party, JUST because they live in Northern Ireland. This is gross discrimination by a Party supposedly committed to inclusiveness. You can be included as long as you are not living in Northern Ireland. If you are living in GB and are transferred to Northern Ireland as part of your job, you will have your Party membership card taken away".
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"The great majority (80 per cent) of Northern Ireland trade unionists are in GB-based unions and most of these are in unions which are affiliated to the Labour Party. Many of these trade unionists 'contract in' to pay the political levy, most of which goes to the Labour Party. The Labour Party receives about £100,000 a year from this source. Even though he/ she may be a political levy paying member of an affiliated trade union, their membership application to the Labour Party will still be turned down, simply because they live in Northern Ireland".
While I am not exactly in sympathy with the Labour Party, I consider it diabolical that it denies membership to UK citizens purely on the grounds of residence. And it is not as though they are in a formal alliance with Durkan's SDLP, which, one might note, has an *.IE website, not a *.UK one
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