tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post1126947972060281053..comments2023-10-22T14:14:16.419+01:00Comments on J. Arthur MacNumpty: The Sunday WhipWillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978812670312106107noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post-8663180461178814542009-02-08T16:30:00.000+00:002009-02-08T16:30:00.000+00:00Will, thanks for the clarification:-)Will, thanks for the clarification:-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post-66333915839460047382009-02-08T15:13:00.000+00:002009-02-08T15:13:00.000+00:00Ted, for the record, I should point out that they ...Ted, for the record, I should point out that they were not absent for the Budget - or at least, they were present for the vote. They missed Thursday's votes and, frankly, their absence didn't really affect the course of events.<BR/><BR/>And I can't remember the last time I bought an SoS - glad to see I'm missing very little.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978812670312106107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post-89946951682409702782009-02-08T14:33:00.000+00:002009-02-08T14:33:00.000+00:00If they really were absent from the budget debate,...If they really were absent from the budget debate, I can’t help wondering what was so important as to justify the absence of the likes of Tom Kelly (Labour Rutherglen Glasgow)… and of course Labour ‘Shadow Cabinet Secretary without Portfolio’ Margaret Curran. Maybe they had to attend some meeting or other with the Westminster Labour MPs who are reportedly yet again running a ‘return some devolved powers to us’ campaign? (the campaign basis seems to be same as before, i.e. ‘because we need to have the powers back to again ensure that Westminster Labour views always trump whatever you lot back in the kailyard ever say’).<BR/><BR/>By the way, I today ‘properly’ read the hard print edition of Scotland on Sunday for the first in a couple of years. It is dreadful – an utter and dreary editorial bias seems to run through everything. The negativity is especially grinding and almost dismaying to read. <BR/><BR/>It struck me that it has become a slightly up-market version of what the Sunday Post was like in the late 1970s. Warner’s diatribe on how the recession is gonna all be the fault of Obama and Brown, oh and Clinton, is just risible (not a mention of Major, Lawson, Bush, Greenspan etc, etc. – funny how they are all of the discredited right wing adherents fraternity). But there again it seems possible that this stuff is not at all written as serious commentary and more like the coffee break outpourings of one of those bores at a business conference who decides to spout forth his unsolicited views on politics and the world in general.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com