Artists in the Crimson Daggers forum were challenged to reimagine the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki in a visual style that is not anime. Here is a selection of what they came up with.
The jubilee feels very different depending where you are in Britain. Ian Bell, Scotland’s most articulate republican, wrote last week: “The monarch we are supposed to celebrate this odd weekend has no claim to the throne of Scotland. She is not, and has never been, my queen.” Many feel the…
Bitter Together
Some interesting points raised in Joan McAlpines column yesterday basically discussing the cretins, quislings and lapdogs mainly found in the Scottish Labour Party. Here’s a summary of the best bits…
HAS anyone noticed the Labour Party in Scotland spend a lot more time attacking the SNP Government than they do fighting the Tories in London?
When was the last time you heard their leaders demand the Con Dems reverse the £10billion cuts to Scotland’s budget?
When was the last time you heard their leaders demand the Con Dems reverse the £10billion cuts to Scotland’s budget?
When did you EVER hear them demand that Scotland gets its fair share of the taxes it sends south?
If Scottish Labour really spoke for the ordinary people of our country, they would demand to know why they were being cheated out of the £230billion the UK Government expect to earn in taxes on Scotland’s North Sea oil and gas over the next three decades.
They would ask why poor and middle income Scots get no direct benefit from the bumper exports of Scotch Whisky, which earned £109 per second last year towards the UK’s balance of trade.
With just 8.4 per cent of the UK population, Scotland pays 9.6 per cent of the overall taxes - not my figures but The Office of National Statistics.
You won’t hear Scottish Labour shout about that injustice. Instead they attack the SNP Government, who despite the Tory assault on their finances, have frozen the council tax (it rose 60 per cent under Labour) abolished university fees (imposed by Labour) and prescription charges, kept free bus travel and elderly care along with educational maintenance allowance.
Instead of welcoming all this, Labour prefer to attack, never offering answers.….But that could be tricky for Labour because it means falling out with their new best mates in the Conservative and Unionist Party.
Did you see Johann Lamont on Thursday’s BBC Question Time panel, joining forces with Michael Forsyth - once the most hated Tory in the country? Alastair Darling, the Labour chancellor, who wrecked the UK economy, is getting equally cosy with another top Tory, David McLetchie with whom he will lead the No Campaign.
McLetchie and Darling are both Edinburgh lawyers but have much more in common.
During the 2010 UK General Election, Darling told the BBC his party’s cuts to public spending would be “deeper and tougher than those of Margaret Thatcher”.
McLetchie was second only to Forsyth in Scotland in his admiration for the Iron Lady.
They are calling their campaign Better Together.
Bitter Together is more like it.
BBC Bias Towards Scottish Independence Exposed
On Monday evening the description for this week Question Time was as follows:
David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Inverness. On the panel, Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander MP, Labour’s leader in Scotland Johann Lamont MSP, Conservative former Secretary of State for Scotland Lord Forsyth, Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips and the actor Alan Cumming.
Today it shows this:
David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Inverness. On the panel, Deputy First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon MSP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy MP, Labour’s leader in Scotland Johann Lamont MSP, Conservative former Secretary of State for Scotland Lord Forsyth, Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips and the actor Alan Cumming.
To sum up the programme this week, its being broadcast from Scotland. Initially the panel consisted of three Unionist politicians, a rightwing columnist from the English edition of the Daily Mail and Independence supporting actor Alan Cummings. No member of Scotland’s Majority government was set to appear. Every week the panel is made up of 5 guests, this week an extra seat has been added. Notice how this has been amended to no doubt cover the BBC from what is an undoubted biased towards any idea or notion that the Scotland’s (and the UK’s) constitution should differ from the current failing status quo. They (unionists) may attack us for being “cyber-nats”, but i’m of the belief that the internet is the sole media outlet for truthful and honest commentary on Scotland becoming independent.
Here’s some of the racist lyrics in God save the Queen; ,
Lord, grant that Marshal Wade May by thy mighty aid,Victory bring.May he sedition hush,and like a torrent rush,Rebellious Scots to crush,God save the Queen.
As a Scot that really pisses me off! >:O
Boom.
Can everyone just reblog this once?
YES.
A big, messy, non-objective rebuttal of some of the arguments against Scotland gaining independence.
“Racism: The SNP is just a neo-fascist tartan version of the BNP.
This is possibly one of the most evil of the Unionist myths. It’s not only untrue, those who make the slur know it’s untrue. (Ian Davidson MP, we’re looking at you.) The SNP is resolutely opposed to fascism and racism in all its forms, just like the overwhelming majority of Scots. The SNP promotes a civic nationalism which has nothing to do with race, genes, or ethnicity. Scottishness is inclusive not exclusive, it is open to all the inhabitants of Scotland, whatever their ethnic, religious, linguistic or family backgrounds. I can’t do better than to quote the late Bashir Ahmad of the SNP, Scotland’s first Asian MSP, who said:
“It isn’t important where you come from, what matters is where we are going together as a nation.”
Mr Ahmad was born in India, he had no Scottish ancestors. Yet he was 100% Scottish. David Cameron has Scottish ancestry, but he’s not Scottish at all. Scottishness is a state of mind. “
