tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post1447208742225919056..comments2023-11-02T04:40:21.698-07:00Comments on Dr. Eric Edmond's Blog: Why the SNP wins and Farage's EUKIP sinks into obscurity.Eric Edmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661176160109187800noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-91897321106717138962011-05-31T06:37:15.266-07:002011-05-31T06:37:15.266-07:00A bit late but I hope this catches up.
Having a S...A bit late but I hope this catches up. <br />Having a Scottish wife and family on both sides of the border, I am very sorry that Mr. Salmond does not have more effective opposition. On the other hand, if I lived in Scotland and looked at the euroslime in Westminster, I might find a viable alternative attractive- on the basis that it could hardly be worse. <br /><br />The difference, it seems to me, is that Mr. Salmond believes in something. The other main parties believe in nothing in particular except their entitlement to office and a man who believes in something will always beat a man who believes in nothing. I too have remarked on the quality of the SNP ministers, compared to the dregs of Westminster. (I am sometimes invited to post on a Scottish nationalist blog!).<br /><br />Of course, the huge contradiction lying at the heart of the SNP is their devotion to the EU. An "independent" Scotland would still be an EU province and Salmond has shown his devotion to the supranationalist mindset by his demonic devotion to wind turbines which will never be adequate for a developed economy. On the other hand, he may just be counting the bawbees that will flow into Scotland from England under the iniquitous "feed in" tariffs which pay two or three times the retail price for electricity from "renewables".<br /><br />Regionalisation, devolution and the break-up of national states which are based on more than a single ethnicity were all a German policy from the Twenties and an EU policy from the Fifties. Probably unwittingly, English, Scottish and Welsh nationalists are "useful idiots" for the EU project - for people who certainly do not have the interests of any of the inhabitants of these islands at heart.Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-20881013036996686572011-05-10T06:10:55.223-07:002011-05-10T06:10:55.223-07:00I always thought it was EUKIP c'est moi accord...I always thought it was EUKIP c'est moi according to Farage. John Kelly is a long standing Faragista who was the SW region less than brilliant press officer.<br /><br />Any of the Cabal enemies esposing non-UKIP policy in a public place would of course be expelled.<br /><br />EEEric Edmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11661176160109187800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-72117156798835243082011-05-10T01:07:50.506-07:002011-05-10T01:07:50.506-07:00According to John Kelly the pro AV stance was Fara...According to John Kelly the pro AV stance was Farage's, it was not ukip policy. <br />I suspect that there are few successful political parties where the leader (and only spokesman) have one policy and the rank and file and at least one of the two representatives in parliament have exactly the opposite policy.david abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15998021737649071265noreply@blogger.com