tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post4322159800278808897..comments2023-10-22T14:14:16.419+01:00Comments on J. Arthur MacNumpty: SUPER MASSIVE MEGA-IMPORTANT NEWS: Something is not going to happenWillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978812670312106107noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post-53449443541524749342007-10-12T16:04:00.000+01:002007-10-12T16:04:00.000+01:00I expect Labour to be decimated in Scotland by SNP...I expect Labour to be decimated in Scotland by SNP come the next election ... Brown would probably have done reasonably well (with a few losses) this time ... but in a few years, he will be in for a serious kicking ... as only us Celts can administer in our inimitable style :-)Mountjoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17385482147330173836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post-53713839025483692492007-10-07T13:52:00.000+01:002007-10-07T13:52:00.000+01:00I was visited by the Sarcasm Pixies last night, I ...I was visited by the Sarcasm Pixies last night, I think, mainly as I was struck about how excited the MSM got at the thought of an event not taking place!<BR/><BR/>To me, 'fuspuak' sounds like some sort of wild rodent, possibly a native of Borneo.<BR/><BR/>And Ted, I quite agree. Brown should have come out right away this time last month and said, 'No poll now', and Douglas Alexander has had an awful year: his abysmal performance on the Election fiasco (both the conduct of the poll and the Labour campaign), and his naivety in the last month. His sister isn't doing particularly well either. Perhaps both the Alexander siblings, hailed as the bright future of Scottish Labour, have been over-promoted.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978812670312106107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post-87545627979064937442007-10-07T13:06:00.000+01:002007-10-07T13:06:00.000+01:00Yeah, super mega news, Will. Incidentally, the Wo...Yeah, super mega news, Will. Incidentally, the Word Verification is fuspuak - isn't that vaguely rude?James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19208183.post-38418820793586835532007-10-07T10:59:00.000+01:002007-10-07T10:59:00.000+01:00The issue is not whether "Brown's caution was righ...The issue is not whether "Brown's caution was right". The issue is that his dithering and party-self-interested dithering was wrong - and that in the end his bad judgement and odd non-democratic instincts came to the fore (note that I do not say he has anti-democratic instincts). Alf Young in last Friday's Herald provided an excellent brief history on Brown's aversion to open electoral process going back to the late 70s in the Hamilton by-election when he wanted a no-opposition shoo-in.<BR/><BR/>Brown's base judgement was to allow the election fever to mount and this was certainly contrary to the interests of the country (good God, I found myself agreeing with Malcolm Rifkind on this!). He reneged on his Prime Ministerial role on this matter and reduced the calling of a General Election to the level of what-does-the-most-recent-poll-say-about-my-personal-mandate? and anyway... he just got it wrong.<BR/><BR/>But indeed let's nor forget the Turks. Most prominent among these is Douglas Alexander heading up the Labour General Election organisation. <BR/><BR/>He somehow escaped back to Westminster and avoided blame for his complete culpability in the Scottish election disaster that was the 2-elections-on-one-day-with-a-new-system. This again was driven purely by party self-interest and... again...he just got it all wrong. So forward to Labour's next election debacle because Douglas Alexander is still there at their election campaign organisation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com