tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351779512024-03-07T19:00:59.909+00:00Councillor Terry KellyThe view from Left field, politics, entertainment, argument and insight into my world. For Socialism, peace and justice, against racism, sexism, sectarianism, nationalism and discrimination. Avanti Poplo!Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.comBlogger1048125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-36128583812150850972017-04-03T18:12:00.002+00:002017-04-03T18:13:40.316+00:00KEN LIVINGSTONE IS INNOCENT AND SO WAS I. <b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">As someone who was accused of being anti Semitic (by a right wing Tory blogger), suspended and then found innocent by the Labour Party NEC. I recommend the following article by A German Jew called Walter Wolfgang who fled Nazi Germany at the age of 13 years and is now in his 90's. He gets it right about Ken Livingstone and those who continue to try to damage him. </span></b><br />
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:- AS A Jewish member of the Labour Party, who escaped Nazi Germany, I take the issue of antisemitism extremely seriously. I am 93 years old. I was born in Germany in 1923. My family were persecuted by the Nazis. So in 1937, at the age of 13, I left and came to live in Britain. The Nazis embraced antisemitism and exterminated six million Jews. Their vile ideology must be fought and defeated. It was the strength of my commitment to Judaism and Jewish ethical values of human equality which caused me to join the Labour Party in 1948.I was a member of its national executive committee from 2006 to 2008.<br />
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Allegations of anti-semitism should be made only when people express hostility to Jewish people because they are Jewish. Such allegations should not be made when this is not the case. It is not anti-Semitic to hold or express views about the government of Israel or about Zionism. Anti-antisemitism is hostility to Jews because of their religion, race, culture or ethnicity. Many Jews, Zionist and non-Zionist — including myself — disagree with the present policies of the Israeli government, many of which are clearly contrary to UN resolutions and against international law. #In terms of the current international situation, those who confuse opposition to the policies of Israeli governments with anti-antisemitism render a great disservice to all Jews around the world and to the Palestinians, but also to Israelis who, like the Palestinians, need a peaceful settlement.<br />
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Indeed, the lack of international pressure on Israel to make the necessary concessions to achieve a two state solution which respects Palestinian rights has prevented a resolution of the last colonial conflict — the Palestinian-Israeli one. Political views on this conflict, such as opposing the policies of the government of Israel or opposing zionism, are entirely legitimate opinions for people to express.Zionist political opinions — that is support for the state of Israel or its policies — are views held by Jewish people and non-Jewish people. It is also the case that anti-zionist views are also held by Jewish people and non-Jewish people. Freedom of expression of such views should be defended by the Labour Party. It is important that the Labour Party does not conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism. It should uphold the distinction between opposition to a person or people because of their race, religion, culture or ethnicity (racism, including antisemitism and Islamophobia) and opposition to a political view such as Zionism.<br />
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Within this context, Labour’s national constitutional committee hearing into Ken Livingstone this week is a travesty. His observations about the 1933 Transfer Agreement are broadly and historically correct. At that time Hitler was in favour of Jews leaving Germany for Palestine. The agreement reached between the Nazis and some Zionists are simply indisputable facts. It is not anti-semitic to discuss this period of history. Advocacy of Jews leaving for Palestine was made by some Jews who were Zionist, some non-Jews who were anti-Semitic, by some non-Jews who were friendly and some who were indifferent to Jews.<br />
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Livingstone has an outstanding record of fighting against racism and anti-semitism, including in his time as leader of the Greater London Council and two terms as mayor of London. Thanks to Livingstone, Jewish community organisations and cultural events received significant support and the annual Holocaust Memorial Day was appropriately marked by the capital’s government. And these initiatives against antisemitism were one part of a widely acknowledged broader programme of activities celebrating multiculturalism and our diversity, including through the promotion of public, free, celebrations and commemorations of all the main faith and secular cultural festivals and anniversaries observed by London’s communities.<br />
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In Livingstone’s own words: “The purpose of such events was twofold. On the one hand to celebrate the cultural and social contribution of London’s diverse communities and on the other to encourage inter-faith and inter-community awareness to reduce prejudice born of ignorance and promote understanding.To me, it is evident that Livingstone is being attacked because of his long record as a leading figure in the left and because he supports the Palestinians, and not because he is either offensive or anti-Semitic. His suspension this past year has been entirely unjustified. The Labour Party owes him an apology and should restore his membership forthwith.Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-64723005261697399762017-01-02T16:55:00.003+00:002017-01-02T16:55:51.034+00:00LABOUR MSP NEIL FINDLAY SHINES A LIGHT ON THE SNP RECORD. <div class="row-fluid" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 670.32px;">
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THE fourth session of the Scottish Parliament is now coming to an end. This was a parliament dominated by the referendum — a referendum that took up such a huge amount of time and effort by all concerned that making real, lasting and radical change was placed firmly on the back burner.</div>
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But we did see one real and very significant act of social change with passing of the Same-Sex Marriage Bill — supported across the political divide in a debate that I believe showed the Parliament at its best.</div>
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Contrast that with the absurdity of The Offensive Behaviour at Football Bill, which resulted in a group of people — largely working-class young men and women — denied the same rights as other citizens by virtue of them purchasing a ticket to a football match.</div>
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This Act should be repealed at the earliest opportunity. In so many ways the parliamentary session represents a huge missed opportunity with little in the way of radical change. There was no use of the parliament’s tax powers to redistribute resources to tackle Scotland’s appalling health and wealth inequalities. The gap between rich and poor has in fact grown. Budget decisions made by the Tories at Westminster were largely passed on, with local government forced to sign up to even greater cuts than George Osborne has imposed on English councils and do the government’s dirty work with cut after cut or receive a penalty should councils choose to protect services.</div>
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Some 60,000 council jobs have gone but these have been dismissed by SNP trade union group convener Christina McKelvie and Finance Secretary John Swinney as “exaggerated” and “made up.”</div>
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Only days later SNP councils announced hundreds more job losses following another half billion of cuts imposed on them.</div>
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In Scotland’s further education sector there are 156,000 fewer student places following Mike Russell’s shambolic college reforms. Some £90 million has been paid out in redundancies to over 3,500 staff who have lost their jobs.</div>
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Across our NHS, staff and budgets are under pressure like never before and the failed social care system leaves people in hospital for weeks on end when they could and should be at home recovering.</div>
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In the police service the new organisation that is Police Scotland has made what can at best be described as a very shaky start with one chief constable having already been dispatched.</div>
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So across public services we see problem after problem and cut after cut. Against this background you would expect any government — but more so one that claims social democratic credentials — to be putting forward a suite of proposals to address the pressing demands of our vital public services.</div>
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But alas, no. There will be no redistribution, no progressive use of the Parliament’s tax policies to inject much-needed cash into our essential services, no “scrapping of the unfair council tax” — just tinkering — no commitment to tax high earners.</div>
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Cuts to benefit the wealthy — no 50p tax rate for high earners, no progressive or redistributive measures, just the scrapping of air passenger duty as a gift to big business. At this election Scottish Labour is offering an alternative that puts clear red water between us and the managerialist establishment of the SNP.</div>
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We will end austerity with a 1p tax increase while protecting lowpaid workers, set a 50p rate for high earners, reject Osborne’s amendments to thresholds for those at the top and cancel any cut to air passenger duty as both an economic and environmental policy — with all that we will be putting money back into the vital public services that civilise our society. This is good for jobs, good for services and good for our country’s future prosperity and wellbeing.</div>
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In the run-up to May’s election, socialists will have to decide whether they choose to support a Labour Party that is arguing for a progressive economic policy that asks those with most to pay more to fund the services that help those in need, or a nationalist party committed to little change and a steady-as-you-go strategy that fails to challenge the social and economic inequality that scars our society.</div>
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Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-53805076749843309252016-11-26T20:10:00.000+00:002016-12-04T17:55:01.121+00:00GOODBYE 'EL COMANDANTE'<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">What do Dwight D Eisenhower – John F Kennedy – Lyndon Baines
Johnson –Richard Nixon – Gerald Ford – Jimmy Carter – Ronald Reagan – George Bush
– Bill Clinton – George Bush 2 and Barack Obama have in common?</span> </i></b></span><b><i>--- They all had
the misfortune to be presidents of America while Fidel Castro was in power in Cuba;
Fidel has also managed to steal the thunder of President elect Donald Trump by
himself passing away, thus knocking the serial crook Trump off the front pages of
the newspapers and the TV news screens all around the world. None of the men traditionally
referred to as the most powerful men in the world 'The Presidents of America' was never able to get the
better of a revolutionary Socialist leader who dominated them from 90 miles
away in the tiny island of Cuba with ease. Despite the efforts of the mightiest nation on Earth’s
attempts to invade Cuba, to destroy their revolution with sanctions and even assassinate Fidel many times he was able to ridicule and laugh at them for over 5 decades. </i></b></div>
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<b><i>His poverty stricken 3<sup>rd</sup> world country managed to provide better
health care completely free to everyone, and better education, free to all from
infancy through to university, better infant mortality rates and so much more than
the world’s richest country America.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Cuba exported healthcare throughout Latin America and
Africa, 325, 710 Cuban health workers have worked in 158 countries since 19 69.
And they also gave military aid to the ANC in their revolutionary struggle. </i></b></div>
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<b><i>Castro and the Cuban revolution above all brought hope to the downtrodden of this world, in every corner of the earth people heard and learned from Cuba that they could in fact defy the odds and win the struggle against the exploiters, capitalist crooks and colonialists if they stood together, displayed loyalty to the cause and believed in solidarity. We may never see his like again, and he joins the list of heroes who have gone before him who were fighters for justice for the poor and downtrodden, like Lenin, Marx, Trotsky, Robespierre, Danton, (La Pasionaria - Dolores Irraburi), Rosa Luxembourg, James Connolly, John MacLean and so many more who fought for the greatest cause in the history of the world, Socialism, it was a privilege to have shared this earth with him and to have supported him and his revolution.</i></b> </div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-43938875148566073022016-11-10T17:39:00.000+00:002016-11-10T17:39:56.409+00:00TRUMP ELECTED AND THE WORLD TREMBLES. <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; vertical-align: middle;">
<b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Struggling Americans never admit to being poor, they are brainwashed
into thinking that they are only temporarily embarrassed millionaires” – John
Steinbeck. This is the “American Dream” which is of course one of the cruellest
and biggest lies in history. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Roboto, serif;">Donald Trump, President of the United States! It has really
happened; we now know that Americans can indeed be that dim-witted. It’s time
to warn immigrants that they will be hunted and deported, Women will be
punished for having an abortion if they can find a doctor to perform one, The
LGBT community can expect to be hounded and their marriages classed as illegal
and those who are not WASPS (white Anglo Saxon Protestants) will face greater
discrimination and persecution. </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Roboto, serif;">Climate change will now be relegated, and Muslims will be banned
and those already in America will be abused. These things will come to pass
because a man who is a racist bigot, a misogynistic pig, and a practiced liar
and crook is now the President elect of the USA.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Roboto, serif;">There can be no doubt that these events have occurred because the
political establishment in America; Democrat and Republican, have abandoned
millions of regular Americans to their fate in the worst ‘dog eat dog’
capitalist society in the world, a place where there is no mercy, no matter how
many times they salute the flag or rehearse the mantra that they live in “the
home of the brave and the land of the free” Trump’s political instincts and his
temperament will show them no mercy, the rich are about to get richer and the poor
about to get poorer. And the poorest of the poor, Indigenous Indians, African
Americans and Latinos will be trampled on; as Orwell said in 19 84 “imagine a
boot stamping on a human face — for ever”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Roboto, serif;">It hardly seems possible that America could become more lawless,
more brutal or more unequal but we are about to see that it will. There is a
price to be paid ultimately for exploiting millions of your own people and
replacing aspirations with flag waving and national anthems and we will I think
see that. America above all is about to pay the price for its failure to
properly educate its own people, they are the richest as well as the dumbest
country in the world and they could be about to pay a heavy price for their
corporate greed and their negligence of their ‘fellow Americans’, God Help
America. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-58188857752012592692016-10-18T13:38:00.000+00:002016-10-18T13:38:33.976+00:00CORBYN ELECTABLE? <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>The sustained attacks on Jeremy Corbyn accusing him of anti Semitism
are nonsensical and desperate,</i></b></span> nonsensical because he has an unblemished
history of unwavering opposition to any kind of racism, sectarianism or bigotry.
They are also desperate because they are being hysterically pursued by Israeli Zionists
and the reason for that should bring reassurance to Labour and Corbyn
supporters. Anyone who clings to the fiction that Corbyn is unelectable should
consider carefully why this is happening, it is clear that when it comes to
Corbyn's electability there is certainly one very powerful and influential
group who know that he is electable and that is the Israeli Zionists. The last
thing they want to see is a UK Labour Prime Minister with a long and honourable
record of support for the Palestinian cause, hence the slurs and false
accusations against him. Their accusations however are becoming less and less
credible and the fact that they emanate from the same old sources marks them as
completely contrived. </div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-15188018567110599462016-09-09T11:34:00.002+00:002016-09-09T11:34:19.871+00:00SNP WAITING TO BE "BEAMED UP" SCOTTY. <div class="MsoNormal">
<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Has anyone
like me been wondering what has happened to the SNP MP’S at Westminster, they
all seem to have taken a vow of silence quite a while ago.</span></i></b> It
seems they have been secretly planning a master stroke to shake the Palace of
Westminster to its foundations, no it’s not independence, none of them mention
that anymore, it’s not Brexit either, they realise that that horse has bolted
and they are left with just the shrieks of Nicola Sturgeon hilariously
threatening Theresa May who just looks terrified doesn’t she?. </div>
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The secret has been revealed in all its splendour and daring,
they have rallied behind their saltire and</div>
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advanced on Westminster as a mob
demanding that the government officially recognise the 50<sup>th</sup>. Birthday
of Star Trek, this motion to the house was put down by SNP MP Patrick Grady
yesterday. Forget homelessness, The NHS, Food Banks, cuts etc. Star Trek is
apparently far more important to the SNP trekkies. So the next time you hear
anyone asking what good the SNP MP’S are you can stand up for them by stating
the SNP MP’S fought like bravehearts to have the country recognise the benefits
bestowed on us all by the children’s space adventure series Star Trek. Their
next heroic mission I’m told is to force Westminster to recognise the cultural
significance of legendary Scottish heroes like oor Wullie, the Broons, Wee
Willie Winkie and William Wallace. </div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-4166985286930734742016-08-31T17:49:00.001+00:002016-08-31T17:49:13.276+00:00DEMOCRATIC DECISIONS BEING ATTACKED AND UNDERMINED BY DESPERATE POLITICIANS. <div class="MsoNormal">
<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is an
interesting similarity in the way Nicola Sturgeon and Owen Smith represent
their cases against the democratic decisions of the people they are trying to persuade
to support them.</span></i></b> Sturgeon continues to barely keep herself
afloat by sabre rattling against the verdict of the electorate to leave Europe
and still issues empty threats against those who decided that Scotland will
remain as part of the UK. Both of their positions are patently untenable when
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In Sturgeon’s case, she is now in the absurd position of
telling people she will re run the independence referendum which they lost some
two years ago and she also insists in trying to interfere with the decision
taken in the European referendum which she also lost just recently, democracy evidently
is not her strong point. The unpalatable truth for her and her credulous
followers who believe the nonsense she continues to spout is that she has no
cards to play, hence the reason that she continues to shout loud and long about
repeat referendums without mentioning how she will set about achieving this.
The answer is of course that she can’t, if she could we would have heard by now
how she will go about doing it. She is now paying the price for the part she
played in returning David Cameron to Downing Street, a more intelligent and
experienced politician would have been far more aware of how vulnerable Cameron
would be in a Euro. Election but she went with Salmond’s orders again, she must
be one of the few people who did not realize that Salmond by then was incapable
of walking and chewing gum at the same time since his career and his reputation
crashed and burned among the flames of the SNP’s farcical independence referendum
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The wretched Owen Smith like Sturgeon now looks like a
rabbit caught in the headlights of a bus and he has no way of escaping. How on
Earth did they convince him to run? Had I been in his position I might have
looked around me and thought to myself, where is Balls? Benn, Burnham, Hodge,
Watson, Bryant? Where have all the big hitters who planned this gone? It should
have occurred to him that because of the actions of himself and the rest of the
PLP he was a dead man walking, even many of those who do not want Corbyn to win
were frowning on such deceitful behaviour and so it proved. He has now had to
submit himself to a humiliating series of hustings, and rallies which have been
totally eclipsed by his opponent’s activities, his opponent who by comparison
looks like a rock star at a concert and he is sixty seven years old! Alas the
big name instigators of this debacle have left him to swing in the wind. He
apes the same tactics as Sturgeon in that he attacks Corbyn over the Brexit
campaign without being able to tell the members what it is that he either did
not do or did not do well enough. He also says that he will fight Brexit harder
than Corbyn without telling us how he will do this, he condemns Corbyn as being
useless but as Jeremy pointed out with a sickening thud at a hustings he wants
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Smith and those people who created this awful mess will be
lucky to cling to careers as back benchers if Corbyn wins and becomes PM and
there will be no drama about the process, it will be inevitable and the Labour
Party will unite and emerge stronger as a force for Socialism. </div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-47323385508364535322016-07-30T12:16:00.003+00:002016-07-30T12:16:45.073+00:00RENFREW SOUTH & GALLOWHILL BY ELECTION 11/08/2016.<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>Renfrew South & Gallowhill By Election Thursday August
11<sup>th</sup>. 20 16 – Vote Labour – Vote for Edward Grady. </i></b></span> </div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-5070047441653062582016-07-07T16:00:00.001+00:002016-07-07T16:00:52.465+00:00CORBYN AND LABOUR VINDICATED AGAIN. <div class="MsoNormal">
<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Today I
received notification from The Labour Party that my suspension has been lifted.
I</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: red;">know that those people who could not stop mentioning it when
they wrote to me in glee would like to know the outcome so I thought it right
to let them know.</span></span></i></b><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;"> <b><i>This was a classic smear against me and
others in the party by a coalition consisting of Israeli Zionist extremists,’
opportunistic right wing Tories and the usual fetid SNP suspects, It failed
quite spectacularly. It was doomed to fail because they targeted Labour Party
people who had reputations for campaigning against racism and bigotry all their
lives. In over 43 years in The Labour Party I have never heard one anti Semitic
remark made, it was gutter politics at its worst. </i></b></span><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Using
tactics that would have disgraced the squalid old Senator for Wisconsin Joe
McCarthy they created a climate of fear aided and abetted by the UK media.
Despite being wrongly accused by a right wing Tory blogger, I understand why
the party put these suspensions in place, the pressure was being built up and
to stop that pressure in its tracks the party played safe and they and the other accused have been vindicated. Because of the swift action by the party this
vile slur if ever attempted again will gain no traction.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #244061; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 128;">There
is a very significant message here as a result of this failed attempt to damage
Labour; it’s a message that is very important to the party and the wider
country if they care to heed it. The Zionist ‘powers that be’ in Israel are
very strong, very determined and utterly ruthless and the last thing they want
to see is a Labour Prime Minister in number 10 who has a decade’s long
commitment to Palestine, and opposition to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian
land. My suggestion therefore is, the next time you hear anyone say that Jeremy
Corbyn is incapable of winning a UK general election, remind yourselves of what
Zionist Israel which is one of the most powerful countries in the world backed
by American money tried to do to Jeremy Corbyn. The conclusion is clear the
Israeli Government know that Corbyn can win and our job is to make sure that he
does just that. I want to thank all the people within the party and out with
the party for their kind messages of support for me throughout this grubby
business. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-21648991083614874182016-07-07T08:34:00.004+00:002016-07-07T08:39:09.692+00:00TO PARAPHRASE MARK TWAIN - 'REPORTS OF THE DEATH OF THE LABOUR PARTY ARE AN EXAGGERATION'.<div class="MsoNormal">
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membership is on course to hit 600,000, a half-century peak”,</span></i></b><span style="color: #404040;"> </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(The New Statesman).</span></i></b><span style="color: #404040;"> a</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">fter a second successive day in which more than 100,000 people have
applied to become party members.</span></b></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As</span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> far as social media presence is concerned, 'Saving Labour',
which is a right wing group funded by private money has over 4,000 likes at
time of writing, while 'Momentum' which is a </span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">grassroots</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> rank and file Corbyn
supporting group has 53,808.</span></span></span></i></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.8px;"><b><i>Blairites further punishment. </i></b></span></span></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-55498037880025447482016-06-28T11:26:00.003+00:002016-06-28T11:26:35.449+00:00EQUAL RIGHTS IN THE LABOUR PARTY.<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i><u>If it is permissible for the PLP to challenge Jeremy Corbyn
then it must follow that we, the party members can challenge those Labour MP’S
who challenged Jeremy, right?. </u></i></b></span></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-38720563266769820772016-06-21T12:36:00.002+00:002016-06-21T12:36:49.304+00:00WHY WON'T THE SNP BAN FRACKING OUTRIGHT? - READ THIS. <div class="MsoNormal">
<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The suspicion
remains that the SNP are not prepared to come clean over their dealings with fracking
and this recent Herald story shows why.</span></i></b>
I have been sent posts from an SNP apologist called Gordon Walker who has been tying
himself in knots in his attempts to defend the SNP’S stance over fracking, I
look forward to his view on this. </div>
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THE former cabinet secretary in charge of planning took thousands of pounds
from a family business linked to fracking for his re-election campaign, it has
emerged. Alex Neil accepted almost £3000 in donations from the family behind a
leading drilling company that stands to benefit if the SNP allows fracking in
Scotland. According to official election
records, Hydracrat Ltd donated £490 to Neil on March 21, and five members of
the Hill family then gave a further £2420 between them by March 25. Bobby Hill,
54, the company’s director and sole shareholder, gave £485; his 80-year-old
mother Jean gave £495; his wife Linda, 52, gave £470; and his sons Robert, 24,
and Ross, 21, gave £490 and £480 respectively.</div>
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for reporting a donation to the Electoral Commission is £500.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Neil took the cash while Cabinet Secretary for Communities,
which gave him responsibility for planning, despite controversy over previous
Hydracrat donations because of its fracking links.In November, it emerged SNP
candidate Neil Gray, now the Airdrie & Shotts MP, took £3750 from the firm
in 2015, despite taking a public stance against fracking. Hydracrat also
donated £17,500 to the SNP in 2010, and Bobby Hill gave £6500 to the Airdrie
& Shotts constituency branch in 2011, though not to Neil directly. Over the
last 5 years or so this company Hydracat which is linked to fracking have
donated nearly £31,000 to the SNP, through the party itself, one of its
branches and two of its candidates.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Central Scotland Labour MSP Richard Leonard, who stood
against Neil, said: “Alex Neil has some explaining to do. People in Scotland
need to know that government ministers are making decisions based on the
evidence, not on who is funding their political campaigns. An SNP spokeswoman
said: “Alex Neil instructed government officials months ago that any application
from any donor to his campaign would have to be decided upon by another
minister to avoid any conflict of interest, or suspicion of any conflict of
interest. The insinuation here is a red herring." It would appear
therefore that according to this SNP statement that even if Neil is squeaky
clean that another SNP minister and the party itself are happy with donations
being designed to avoid being declared by a company who are linked to fracking.
Are their members also OK with this?. </div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-32025098326450145192016-06-19T13:52:00.001+00:002016-06-19T13:53:51.966+00:00THE LATE GREAT AMERICAN FOLK SINGER PETE SEEGER HAD THESE WORDS PRINTED ON HIS FAMOUS BANJO - "THIS MACHINE SURROUNDS HATRED AND FORCES IT TO SURRENDER". <div class="MsoNormal">
<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Time perhaps to listen to the singer. Every time a
politician makes a disparaging remark about immigrants, asylum seekers or
refugees they bring the day closer that another terrible incident like the one
which took the life of young Labour MP Jo Cox will occur.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b><i>We now live in a febrile anti Muslim cauldron
of hatred because of the constant fraudulent propaganda being put out by right
wing groups and reactionary racist MP’S and their fellow travellers, no one
would now be in the least surprised if similar attacks are carried out again,
such is the unstable nature of our society today and still, the propaganda and
hate speech continues. The crime of inciting hatred is now largely ignored
because it has been allowed to fester by the authorities who are afraid to
enforce the law. <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The other day we saw a
truly nauseating billboard displayed by the fascist Nigel Farage who is
responsible for stirring up this poison. This billboard showed a large queue of
what were clearly foreigners waiting to enter the UK, it was positively
Goebblesesque in its conception and display and reached a new depth of racist malice,
created and displayed by people who claim to be white UK Christians!. The ‘mob’
is ever susceptible to this kind of filth and no one knows when the propaganda
will reach a point where some vulnerable bigot will decide to take action which
will lead to tragedy. I do not accept for one minute that those who provoke
such incidents can genuinely claim to be innocent of incitement. Here in
Scotland we witnessed a pattern of racist hatred against English people which
built up over several years which culminated in Scotland being one of the most
hate filled countries in the world as we approached the referendum, this was
demonstrated in the awful scenes in George Square when the Nationalists lost,
some disingenuously expressed alarm and surprise at the events which took place
but those who knew the truth saw it coming over a long period of time. Abusive
language and constant displays of hatred perpetrated against people who are
targeted for being ‘different’ will eventually bubble over and there is no
telling where it will lead. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Action has to be taken
now before it is too late to put a stop to those who pedal hatred, particularly
prominent people such as MP’S and leaders of political groups and ad hoc rabble
rousers who are not happy unless they are abusing someone or beating up someone
who is according to their twisted minds the wrong colour. That process should
start with The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, the SUN, The Telegraph and the
rest of that ilk. Free speech does not mean that the spreading of hatred and
encouragement of racist violence should be tolerated. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-60626675721474929352016-06-06T18:27:00.001+00:002016-06-06T18:27:24.399+00:00HOW DO YOU OPPOSE FRACKING? ‘BY ABSTAINING’ – SNP.<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: red; line-height: 115%;">Unedifying
obfuscation is now the default position of the SNP and their mob of supporters
in relation to Fracking as they twist and turn while refusing to ban it
entirely.</span></i></b> </span>In the course of the past year they have gone from
sabre rattling against Fracking to being terrified to mention it at all, they
adopted the prison camp guard’s excuse of ‘we are following orders, we can’t
ban it’ when in actual fact they can ban it, so why the tissue of lies?. </div>
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Such was the determination of the SNP hierarchy to stamp out
dissent on this that they made sure that it would not be debated at their
conference, so to those SNP members who are opposed to it which means most of
them before they were stood on by Nicola and her guards the order is ‘whatever
you say, say nothing’, or else. This deception got them by the recent Holyrood election
but it helped to lose the SNP its overall majority, this in turn led to a
situation which could only be described as humiliating for Sturgeon and her now
minority government as she instructed her party to abstain and the remaining
MSP’S led by Labour recorded a victory for banning over it’s then only
supporters the Tories. It all begs the question, how long can the SNP keep
going without a rebellion in the ranks, bit by bit the things which the SNP
once stood for are being dismantled by the likes of Sturgeon, Swinney and Neil
who chose the careerist path a long time ago. </div>
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There is a spectre hanging over this whole business and that
spectre is called Jim Ratcliffe the owner of Ineos who, with the help of the
SNP destroyed so many jobs at Grangemouth. It was he who smiled to the cameras
on leaving a meeting with the SNP as he stated ‘I see no problem with Fracking
going ahead’ could the sinister smirking face of Fergus Ewing who was right
behind him have had anything to do with Mr. Ratcliffe’s confidence?. I smell an
SNP rat and that is why they are in such a mess over this issue. Make no
mistake about it when a man like Ratcliffe looks at someone like Nicola
Sturgeon he sees what con men call a ‘mark’. </div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-563037886909920112016-05-21T11:40:00.004+00:002016-05-21T16:07:04.850+00:00SNP BLUNDERGIRL MHAIRI BLACK MAKES FOOL OF HERSELF AGAIN. <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 17.45pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><i><span lang="EN" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Mhairi Black SNP MP “the young
clever one” has reappeared from her slumber and shown herself to be even dumber
than the rest of the SNP, a heroic achievement by any standard.</span></i></b><span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"> She complains about work-shy MP’S and
Parliamentary Skivers, pity for her then that people can check MP’S activities
and here is hers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">She has spoken in 12 debates
in the last year, which is well below the average amongst MP’S.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">She has received answers to 5
written questions in the last year – below – average amongst MP’S.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-11181453533909992062016-05-11T12:04:00.002+00:002016-05-11T12:04:46.768+00:00Scotland: ‘My Community Can’t Eat A Flag Or Pay Their Bills With A Slogan’<div class="row-fluid" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 848.188px;">
<span style="color: red; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 46px; text-transform: capitalize;"><b>Labour MSP Neil Findlay writes below a very informative and heartfelt call for unity and socialism in the</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">In the wake of devastating results for Scottish Labour, NEIL FINDLAY MSP makes a plea for solidarity and public services to trump petty nationalism. <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5;">The results of last Thursday’s Scottish election for the Labour Party are, I would suggest, pretty clear. We lost the election and we lost it catastrophically. As we say in Scotland, we were well and truly gubbed.</span></span></div>
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It was our worst result in over 100 years, losing all but three constituency MSPs. In my area we worked at the seat for five years prior to the campaign. We put out 100,000 pieces of election material, campaigned hard on local and national issues and worked our arses off. But, we still lost by 8,000 votes.</div>
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Over the coming weeks and months there will be numerous critical assessments of Thursday’s result but let me be clear: we fought the election on one of the most progressive manifestos in many, many years. It was a manifesto I was proud to stand on.</div>
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We fought on a platform of redistribution to tackle health and wealth inequality, of investing in public services and protecting local government. We were committed to taxing the richest 1 per cent who earn over £150,000, we proposed scrapping the council tax and investing in education.</div>
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This was not, as the increasingly embittered and irrational Michael Dugher said, a manifesto that was a “hideous, Momentum hard-left experience.” I would invite the bold Michael to come to Scotland and explain his whacky theories to the Scottish party. However, I would caution him that, given his track record in running an utterly inept leadership campaign for good comrade Andy Burnham, he may find his audience somewhat sceptical.</div>
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The reality is that it wouldn’t matter if Keir Hardie himself had handed out a million-pound notes to every voter who promised to vote Labour. I think we would still have experienced the same result. It appears that no matter how much Labour tried to move the debate onto the issues of health, education and public services, it was the referendum and the national question that concentrated the minds of voters.</div>
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The reality is the rot started to set in for Labour long before the referendum. Over the years we lost the trust of too many of the Scottish people. Increasingly they saw a Labour Party they did not recognise. Too many saw a party that had stopped radically challenging inequality, that had accepted privatisation rather than seeking to revitalise public ownership, and that went along with market logic while ingratiating itself into the Establishment.</div>
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Unfortunately, these Scottish people who lost faith, or who were on a journey of losing faith, had many of their concerns confirmed by the catastrophe of Iraq. The final cherry on the cake was the involvement in the Better Together campaign.</div>
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This is a decision that I will never understand or come to grips with. Whatever the campaign is, you can’t as a party decry the Tories every day only to then link arms with them.</div>
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So last week, following a period of steep decline, we were squeezed between two competing forms of nationalism. Rule Britannia Tory British nationalism complete with Union Jacks being waved from a tank by Ruth Davidson on one side,</div>
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and Braveheart Scottish nationalism on the other. In this constitutional din schools, hospitals and the future of our economy hadn’t a chance of a look in.</div>
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In most constituencies there were only four parties standing; therefore Yes voters had only one candidate to coalesce around while No voters were split between three parties. There were many big swings away from Labour but also away from the SNP is some areas — Aberdeenshire and Perthshire being good examples.</div>
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Many Yes voters see independence as being the only route to solving the problems they face. Yet since the referendum and the oil price fall, independence would have left Scotland facing extremely serious economic problems.</div>
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All of this is set against the background of major public service failure across the board. Health and wealth inequality are increasing, local government is in deep trouble with 70,000 jobs gone and services hollowed out, we see a crisis in our GP surgeries and the educational attainment gap widening not narrowing. In all the key areas where governments are normally judged, the SNP have failed and failed miserably.</div>
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How can a government that refuses to raise tax on the wealthiest in case they take flight from this country (a favourite Tory argument) be considered progressive?</div>
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How can a party that wants to cut corporation tax for the big corporations be considered progressive?</div>
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How can a government that has frozen the council tax while decimating local government be considered progressive?</div>
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And how can a government that renames PFI to NPD and promotes it with great enthusiasm to some pretty dodgy people across the globe be considered progressive?</div>
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But the most chilling element of all of this is the revival of the Tories in Scotland.</div>
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As someone who grew up in, and lives in, a mining community, I am truly appalled.</div>
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Despite the unprecedented Tory attacks on working people, the legacy of Thatcherism and attacks on all the gains that we have won as a movement, many people in Scotland have turned to the enemy of our class. They saw the Tories wrapped in the Union Jack and unequivocal on another referendum. In a Scotland still dominated by that debate, people voted Tory because they felt they would fight the SNP hardest on the constitution.</div>
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Labour lost out to Yes voters who have not forgiven us for not voting with them in the referendum and to No voters who think the Tories will be harder on the SNP in that constitutional debate.</div>
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Labour’s progressive message was starved of oxygen in a constitutional headlock. The focus on nation and flag rather than class and community has ultimately moved the Scottish Parliament firmly to the right.</div>
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This new political landscape is thoroughly depressing. My community can’t eat a flag or pay the bills with a slogan that cries Yes or No.</div>
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But with these really tough times also comes opportunity. We have to push the SNP government to use the powers of Parliament and to stop following the Tory austerity agenda. This, as we all know, is a political, not an economic, choice.</div>
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There has never been a greater need for a Labour Party that represents the interests of working people as there is now.</div>
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In the next five years we have to challenge the tax and public spending cuts that will result from this election. We need to expose the SNP for what they are saying and doing — anti-austerity last year and de-facto pro-austerity this year by refusing to tax the wealthiest to invest in services. And we need to fight for the funding of the public services that civilise our society.</div>
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Now is the not the time to abandon our values. Now, more than ever, is the time to argue for them.</div>
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• Neil Findlay is Labour MSP for Lothian.</div>
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Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-4913982175372716642016-05-06T17:19:00.000+00:002016-05-06T17:19:38.128+00:00LABOUR’S SADIQ KHAN IS THE NEW LONDON MAYOR .<br /><div class="MsoNormal">
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something from the “big” election for those who say Labour can’t win a UK
General Election, think again, if you genuinely want the Tories out, it has to be
Labour.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i>As well as taking the British capital city Mayoralship from the Tories,
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party are set to take control of 2 of the 4 British
Parliaments, the Welsh & London assemblies respectively. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>This comes on top of winning the National Poll, leading in the number
of councillors seats won, and increasing Labour's share of the national vote
4%[as the Tories share dropped 5%]. All of this was achieved as under Corbyn
the Labour vote over the tories has been dragged up from 14 points down to 1
point ahead.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>LAB: 31% | CON: 30% | LDEM: 15% | UKIP: 12% [Lab vote up 4% / Cons down
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<i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Londoners the workers of the UK salute you.</span> <o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-36618983989070059752016-05-04T09:54:00.000+00:002016-05-04T09:54:15.363+00:00RUPERT MURDOCH AND NICOLA STURGEON DECLARE THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER WHILE THE COUNTRY THROWS UP. <div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0cm;">
<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Anyone thinking
of voting for the snp on Thursday because they claim to be a left wing party
will have to think again after Rupert Murdoch gave them his endorsement in his
awful right wing rag The SUN.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> A couple of days after the truly odious Nicola
Sturgeon bowed and grovelled to her Majesty the Queen wishing her a happy
birthday she happily posed with a copy of the SUN showing its support for her
and the SNP. Will the scales now fall from the eyes of the seriously misguided
snp camp followers?. The most virulent, racist reactionary right wing paper in
the country is backing the snp, how do they wriggle out of this one? <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">There is nothing they can
say to alter the fact that they are lying when they talk about their left wing
credentials or their hatred for the Tories, they have been exposed by their own
actions, they are beneath contempt and they are treating the people of Scotland
with scorn. On Thursday the Scottish electorate have the chance to show them
what they think of them and their evil friends from the Murdoch Empire, I urge
the Scottish people to take that chance and use both votes for Labour. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-47656185260771847992016-04-30T17:27:00.002+00:002016-04-30T17:27:25.789+00:00JEREMY CORBYN AND KEN LIVINGSTONE ARE ANTI SEMITES ACCORDING TO THE BLAIRITE RUMP OF THE LABOUR PARTY! BEAM ME UP SCOTTY. <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 15.6pt; text-indent: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;">
<b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ken Livingstone is under attack from David Cameron, Nigel Farage and the
SUN’S hate monger in chief the odious Richard Littlejohn as well as the Tory
press and the sinister right wing Blairite clique in the Labour Party.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Their accusation is one of anti Semitism against a man who has devoted
his whole life to eradicating racism and any form of bigotry. The accusations
of anti Semitism are based on something he said about Hitler and German Zionists
who conspired to relocate German Jews to Palestine this was before he started
the wholesale murder of the German Jewish population. This has deviously been
jumped on by Jeremy Corbin’s enemies inside and outside the Labour Party and
orchestrated by malevolent Labour MP thug John Mann who disgracefully set up an
ambush where he viciously and uncontrollably attacked Livingstone accompanied
by a film crew and a rag tag assembly of reactionary journalists. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There are not one but two elephants in the conspirator’s room here. The first
is that to accept their charge of anti Semitism you have to also accept that
opposition to Zionism and Israel means you are anti Semitic. I like many many
others fit that bill of being anti Zionist and anti Israel, and also like those
others I refute that accusation because I and they are not anti Jewish in any
way, nor are millions of Jews worldwide who agree with me. The second is much easier
to explain, no one who is attacking Livingstone can tell us what Livingstone
said that was anti Semitic, he was referring to a ‘bona fide’ historical fact
which was that Hitler and the German Zionists were in accord. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This is the lengths that the underhand Blairites in the Labour Party
will go to in their attempts to get rid of Corbyn and they do not care how much
damage to the party they do to achieve that. With Corbyn’s landslide support as
leader I foresee a lot of deselections coming, they will be democratic
deselections and I will be giving them my total support, these people are
treacherous self servers who think they own the Labour Party, it’s high time
they learned different. </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-83993863884601740792016-04-27T18:21:00.001+00:002016-04-27T18:22:52.039+00:00MASSIVE JOY FOR THE VICTIMS OF HILLSBOROUGH BUT NOT FROM THE SNP, THEY HAVE SHAMED SCOTLAND AGAIN. <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;">
<b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is a time of satisfaction for everyone who supported the families of
the 96 Liverpool fans who lost their lives in the Hillsborough tragedy and that
is a lot of people.</span></i></b><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> There is however a group who do not
share in that satisfaction and they belong to the SNP which should come as no
surprise by this time to anyone. The vicious low life who calls himself the Rev. Stuart Campbell writer of the blog
wings over Scotland or as he is sometimes called ‘Lord Haw Haw‘ heaped blame on
the Liverpool fans and blamed them for the disaster declaring the police
innocent. He maintains that same position today and today has seen a surge of support for this animal from snp supporters
including MSP Roseanna Cunningham despite the enquiry at last vindicating the
fans and blaming the police. The popularity among snp supporters of this filthy
character and his writing speaks volumes for the kind of people they are. What
you make of members of a political party whose supporters behave in this
way is for you and your conscience to decide, for my part my conscience is
clear, they are vermin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-65073752211846483962016-04-05T17:52:00.003+00:002016-04-20T18:08:05.135+00:00THE SCOTSWOMAN, THE CHINAMAN AND WEE HOLY BRIAN SOUTER.<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;">
<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;">Today’s
news is full of Nicola Sturgeon holding a secret meeting with the
representatives of a Chinese Company about £10 Billion worth of business.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> The company
are called </span></b><b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sino
Fortone and China Railway No. 3 Engineering Group (CR3) and the general consensus
among commentators is that they are a very dodgy bunch. Strangely enough the
Tory Government are engaged in several projects with them so, once again the
SNP and the Tories are as one, more embarrassing for the SNP is the fact that
the country which can do no wrong in the eyes of the SNP, Norway have refused
to have any dealing s with this company, in Norway they are ‘Persona non grata’.
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The
humiliation does not stop there however, the Tory Government were castigated by
SNP MP George Kerevan in their own comic ‘The National’ for cosying up to the “new
Chinese Imperialism” at the expense of the UK steel industry. While Mr Kerevan
fulminated against the Chinese his own party hierarchy were meeting them in
secret over this issue, he is obviously out of the loop just like the rest of
the Scottish people. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Perhaps
the most bizarre detail in all of this was that despite the fact that SNP MP’S
knew nothing about it and neither did the Scottish people, one seemingly
privileged person was present in the room, it beggars belief but can anyone
think of any conceivable reason why wee holy Brian Souter (for it was he) would
be involved in this government transaction?. As far as I am aware he has no
locus in government issues and he has never been elected to any political
position. Is he now because of his money some kind of ‘minister without port folio’?
homophobic, union buster and hidebound religious zealot, ‘how are ye’, it’s all
going to end in tears, meantime enjoy the laughs. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-6404864452239160272016-03-31T17:25:00.003+00:002016-03-31T17:25:53.665+00:00IS IT POSSIBLE STILL, FOR ANYONE TO DEFEND ISRAEL?.<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><i><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Years ago people of my generation watched in revulsion the TV images of
a young naked Vietnamese girl fleeing in pain and terror as her body burned
from an American napalm attack</span></i></b><b><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">. We also watched in disbelief as a South Vietnamese policeman carried
out the summary execution of a North Vietnamese man by murdering him with a
close up shot to the head from his revolver. The so called civilised western
world was horror-struck at what our American allies had become. There can be no
doubt that these TV images contributed an enormous amount of damage to the
American cause as they lost and deserved to lose the Vietnam War.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Fast
forward to now and we see the equally barbaric murder of a captured and badly wounded
young Palestinian man by an Israeli soldier in the Palestinian town of Hebron.
As the Palestinian lay injured and immobile he was shot in the head at close
range, an Israeli soldier is heard saying “is the dog dead yet”. It was only a matter of time before the world
would have to admit to what the State of Israel is doing, this is now happening
rapidly they have joined the ranks of war criminals and despots. This is what
Netanyahu calls the most moral army in the world and over 60 % of Israeli
citizens have backed the soldier’s conduct, this is to say that a majority of
people who live in the State of Israel are in favour of summary execution of
their enemies even if they are injured. Netanyahu is also fond of describing
Israel as the only civilised democracy in the Middle East, if that doesn’t
scare you nothing will. This was not an action against terrorism it was murder
sanctioned by the War Criminal State of Israel who are fast running out of the high
moral ground that they bogusly claim to occupy. I have copied out below a
section of the --- The Israeli declaration of independence. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“The State of Israel will be open for Jewish immigration and for the
Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country</span></i></b><span style="background: white;"> </span><b><i><u><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">for the benefit of all its
inhabitants</span></u></i></b><b><i><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">; it will be based on <u>freedom, justice and
peace</u> as envisaged by the prophets of Israel;</span></i></b><span style="background: white; color: red;"> </span><b><i><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">it will ensure complete <u>equality of social
and political rights to all! </u>its
inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of
religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the
Holy Places of all religions; <u>and it will be faithful to the principles of
the Charter of the United Nations.”<o:p></o:p></u></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #4a442a; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 64;">The underlining is mine – many of its
inhabitants are being persecuted, murdered, and turned into refugees, and The
United Nations has just categorised Israel as the worst country in the world
for human rights abuses. Do not react by saying there is nothing that you can
do because there is, you can join the BDS movement which stands for BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT.
and SANCTIONS. Not many have investments so they can’t disinvest and sanctions
are done by governments but everyone can boycott!. The Israeli Government are
twisting the arms of many countries to get them to ban BDS but the truth is
that no one can stop you from boycotting Israeli goods and refusing to have any
contact with them, it worked with apartheid South Africa and the State of
Israel is feeling the heat so ‘pile it on’. </span></b><b><i><u><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-13154403166563410642016-03-21T19:35:00.002+00:002016-03-21T19:35:50.912+00:00HOW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE THE SNP START USING THE WEE CHIBS THAT THEY KEEP DOON THEIR SOCKS ON EACH OTHER?. <div class="MsoNormal">
<b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The
highlands of Scotland are claimed by some to be a beautiful place with the
friendliest people in the world</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The first claim is said by every
country which wants to attract tourists, lots of made up legends and bogus
claims about highland dress and bagpipes, highland games where cabers and other
capers are tossed and stalls set out enthusiastically to play the game of “fleecing
the tourist” a game at which they would win the gold medal if it were ever
included in the Olympics. It’s not particular to Scotland of course. In the
capital of Irish America Boston you can stroll in and out of bars to your heart’s
content but on St. Patrick’s Day its $20 admission to the same bars. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The second claim about friendly people is however under threat due to
the behaviour of the yobs in the SNP. One would have thought that the treatment
dished out to the late Charles Kennedy MP would have made them stop and think
and perhaps say enough is enough time to rejoin the human race but, it appears
not. The spite and resignations keep piling up and now those friendly
highlanders affectionately known as ‘teuchters’ are joining in with some gusto.
Not to be outdone by the rancorous turf wars among the bravefarts in North
Lanarkshire SNP, the teuchter branches are determined that they can be as
spiteful and malicious as those lowlander SNP backsliders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">At close of play today we had two SNP councillors who have had enough of
the ‘witch hunts’ that they have been subjected to, Cllrs. Iain Angus MacDonald
and his fellow SNP Councillor Iain Stewart MacLean both from Oban have now resigned,
how many SNP resignations has that been?. “Is losing all these elected members
unfortunate or is it just carelessness” to paraphrase Oscar Wilde’s Lady
Bracknell?. Sturgeon drops 6 points in leadership popularity poll, it’s a ‘funny
old game, isn’t it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-40514848195242288162016-03-18T19:28:00.003+00:002016-03-18T19:31:31.024+00:00"IT AINT OVER TILL IT'S OVER" - YOGI BERRA - AMERICAN BASEBALL PLAYER. <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.6pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 3.8pt; margin-top: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<b style="line-height: 16.95pt;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">August 2015 and Yen Hongmei Jin, the SNP’s only Chinese
councillor ‘Lochar ward on Dumfries and Galloway Council’ resigns over racism
and bullying.</span></i></b><b style="line-height: 16.95pt;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> SNP party
officials did not take steps to shield her. She organised a Burns ‘the great
internationalist’ night and was targeted by SNP members because she had no
Scottish roots. A squalid offensive email sent to her apparently said “Bunch of
arseholes – supposedly Scottish too”, “They can stick their (Burns) club right
up their rectum” certainly sounds like the SNP doesn’t it.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This abuse
and bullying was made known to the SNP’s Edinburgh headquarters it was ignored
for 6 months, is it possible that Nicola Sturgeon knew nothing about this one
as well? SNP members may well have thought ‘we will learn from this’, well fast
forward to 4 days ago and you find this. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An SNP
councillor has resigned over? Yes you’ve got it in one Bullying, and a cover up
by SNP officials</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">. </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">College
lecturer Marie Penman claimed that her complaints against senior figures in
Kirkcaldy were taken no further. jealous and suspicious of her education and
intelligence perhaps?.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Among those who were aware of
this were Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh MP, now being investigated over a charity she was
running , SNP MSP Shirley – Anne Somerville, SNP chief executive Peter Murrell and
his wife one Nicola Sturgeon, perhaps she knew nothing about this one as well?.
Seven other Kircaldy branch office
bearers have since resigned as well due to infighting which is going on. The
branch has 1,400 members 30 of whom turn out for branch meetings! Maybe the 30
regular attendees simply won’t tell the other 1,370 branch members where and
when the meetings are being held. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #595959; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Owen Jones asks Mhairi Black if she would rather see a
socialist UK or an indy Scotland. She chooses the latter. She isn't a socialist,
never was and will never be a socialist. </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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John Swinnie absolutely mangled on Question Time from Dundee, SNP cry foul
again. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: #f5f8fa; color: #595959; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sturgeon
humiliated by Andrew Neil and reduced to the old discredited moan of Neil “talking
Scotland down” <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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ahead in the polling for the Westminster elections. “It looks like the reports
of our death are an exaggeration” To paraphrase Mark Twain. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
Cllr Terry Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285923851619030726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35177951.post-28903137889432575762016-03-03T18:18:00.000+00:002016-03-03T18:21:30.103+00:00STURGEON AND THE SNP CAUGHT AGAIN IN THEIR 'TANGLED WEB OF DECEIT' <div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kezia Dugdale
tackled Nicola Sturgeon on Fracking at Holyrood and the exchange went like
this.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> “Scottish Labour will
BAN! fracking” Kezia Dugdale. “We have imposed a moratorium!” Nicola Sturgeon. This
exchange was repeated several times with some inconsequential deviations, much
to the obvious delight of Ms. Dugdale and the obvious humiliation and anger of
Ms. Sturgeon. One of course is a BAN while the other is not a BAN, seems
straight forward to me, how about you dear reader?.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All across the country
SNP candidates are telling voters that there will be no fracking under the SNP,
this is a lie just as their claims to abolish the council tax were also lies.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Generous man that I am
I have provided an unchallengeable definition of these words from an impressive
source for all you nationalists. Sturgeon and the SNP are refusing to BAN
fracking, we have to ask why?. </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile the billionaires who are preparing to
introduce it are boasting that they have been told at the highest level that
the SNP are not! opposed to fracking and the SNP have chosen not to rebut that
statement. It looks like the SNP have “sold the jerseys” taking the p**s out of
their gullible followers again, is there any SNP people out there who will
defend them? Here are the promised definitions. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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prohibition of an activity" Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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prohibit" Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.</span></i></b></div>
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