MrsFinkelstein
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Time for an update:
Voicing concerns about the exclusionary tactics by the SNP the lad Harvie from the Greens says he is swithering over whether to recommend to the Green's conference thingy that they officially join the YES campaign. Basically saying "Hemmin! Salmond! Gimme a proper job!"
Or more a case of Harvie twigging this is all about the SNPs view of independence and the SNP only wanted the Greens to stand at the back and make up the numbers?
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The YES campaign have said they will operate under usual electoral campaign rules in the UK by not accepting more than £500 from an individual not eligible to vote in the referendum They've also said they won't accept donations from organisations. This is all by way of attempting to pressure the NO campaign to limit its funding to Scottish based individuals i.e. no trade unions, no City of London, no big UK donors to the UK parties. Pragmatic tactics obviously but there is a legitimate question as to whether money from outside the area and population that can vote should affect the outcome. YES campaign citing a Quebec referendum where the voting difference was 1.2% and there was what was later deemed an illegal spend of $400,000 on the winning campaign - did it make the difference? The answer to the question, say the YES campaign, is not the point. That there is a question is the point. The NO campaign would struggle to fund itself if the only donations it chose to accept above £500 had to come from inside Scotland.
they may have shot themselves in the foot a bit there, as if they truly stick to the letter of the rules then they shouldn't really use any of the £1 million donated by the Euro million winners. Would just seem a bit off to use money initially fronted by the population of France and Spain, or just me?
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The NO campaign has been branded "Better Together." Alastair Darling, some Tory muppet and some Lib Dem diddy are on the board of the company. Apparently it is accepted and approved within the NO campaign that the muppets and diddies should remain in the background due to the loathing and rage of the electorate. Labour to the fore.
All kinds of "identity politics" kicking off in the midst and wake of the mass expression of self-satisfied servility that was the Jubilee. I refer you all to the Herald columnists Ian Bell and Iain MacWhirter. Scottish independence is about political power not flags and stuff. Ed Miliband reckons independent Scots won't be allowed to call themselves British. Muppet.
Well, we won't will we? We won't be part of the UK anymore. Great Britain is all about the UK. You can't have it both ways, we're either in the UK and British, or we're Scottish. Personally, I think Brian Cox was a total twat at the Yes launch the other week (and it pains me greatly to say that as I have always liked Brian Cox), but being British has never made me feel any less of a Scot.
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Not directly related to the campaign but interesting none-the-less is the stance of the EIS regarding 3 issues:
1. Decide not to strike concerning the unpreparedness in relation to the new exams in the near future. Heavy criticism from studies done on the implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence and the guidance given to teachers concerning it. The exam stuff is just a cherry on top as far as I can see.
2. Might strike about pensions and stuff. Fair enough. But surely leaves them open to criticism of caring more about themselves than the pupils.
3. Criticism of the Scottish government's decision to make it compulsory that a Higher student answer a question in the English exam on a literary work by a Scottish person. When I did my higher English we did Burns, Grassic Gibbon. I did my big book review thing on a McIlvanney novel. We were all over our Scottish literature. I find it odd that the EIS should get their knickers in a twist over this. The government decision came on the back of a whole heap of literati and academics saying that there needed to be more Scottish literature in the curriculum. Some of the more rabid unionists I know have been using word like "indoctrination". Weird.
I took it as being more of an issue that the exam question HAD to be by a Scottish author, rather than Scottish authors work being part of the curriculum as a whole, and they are as likely to come up in an exam as any other piece of work. The exam board should be able to set the questions they feel are most appropriate rather than trying to shoe horn in particular questions based on an authors place of birth.
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This mega-montai phuck-about with Education illustrates the importance of the stuff that has ever been in our own hands. The Trinity of Law, Religion and Education. Education being head and shoulders the most important. Still making an arse of it.
depends on your POV really, I see it as more of a Govt with an agenda forcing that upon a department that should have no political influence. And the fact they've ballsed things up so much with CfE doesn't inspire confidence. Scottish Education has always been separate from the rest of the UK anyway though, it's always been in our hands! I never sat O Levels, or A levels - I sat O Grades, Higher grades and Sixth Year Studies, and while the curriculum was similiar to the English, it was certainly not led by them.
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And finally, apparently Salmond is before Leveson this week. Fun and games ahead. Salmond still hasn't revealed whether his phone was hacked by NI or not, despite repeated attempts by journos and in Holyrood to drag it out of him. His slimy spin doctor McAlpine had her phone hacked so it wouldn't be a shock if Salmond's was too. If his was hacked and he still fluttered eye-lashes at wrinkley Rupert then the ridicule will be a sight to see - a lot of people have been waiting a long time for such a thing.
That I do agree with, I think we all know Salmond smiled and bent forward nicely for Rupert, but he;s such a slimy sod I can see him bluffing his way out of this too!
< Message edited by MrsFinkelstein -- 11/6/2012 10:21:49 PM >
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RE: Scottish independence debate - 
Unlike current generation SNP opportunism, you seem like a true believer. And if your lot couldn't let it go 30 odd years ago you aren't going to let it go, no vote or not IMO. 
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