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"Modern Scotland is deep in socialism, leftist tripe and cultural waste"

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"...the relentless leftism goes almost entirely unrebutted there," says Mona Charen.
Modern Scotland is deep-dyed in socialism. The Scottish parliament, revived in 1998 in the hope that a measure of self-rule would vitiate the independence movement, is dominated by parties of the left. The Scottish National Party, which favors (in addition to separation from England) “free” education through university, unilateral nuclear disarmament, steeply progressive taxation and the “eradication” of poverty, holds 65 of 129 seats. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and a couple of green parties hold 47 seats, while the conservatives claim just 15. Of the 51 members of the House of Commons representing Scottish constituencies, exactly one is a conservative.
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Sun Times.

Wow. If that gets her frothing at the mouth, wait until communism wins!
 
butchersapron said:
It's gone, danny, say you saved it?
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In Duck Soup, one of the stuffy characters responds to Groucho’s raillery with the protest: “I didn’t come here to be insulted!” to which Groucho quips “Oh really? Where do you usually go?”
I went to Scotland. Don’t misunderstand; the Scots were delightful hosts. The country is as beautiful as advertised, but a few days in Edinburgh during the “Fringe” festival is enough to bury images of thistles and bagpipes very deep.
Modern Scotland is deep-dyed in socialism. The Scottish parliament, revived in 1998 in the hope that a measure of self-rule would vitiate the independence movement, is dominated by parties of the left. The Scottish National Party, which favors (in addition to separation from England) “free” education through university, unilateral nuclear disarmament, steeply progressive taxation and the “eradication” of poverty, holds 65 of 129 seats. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and a couple of green parties hold 47 seats, while the conservatives claim just 15. Of the 51 members of the House of Commons representing Scottish constituencies, exactly one is a conservative.
Now, about the “Fringe.” It’s a festival of performances, concerts, dance, circuses and street theater that dominates the city every August. Just based on the descriptions available in the local paper, The Scotsman, many of the offerings were repellent.
We could have seen a play titled “The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning,” which the Scotsman described as a “shocking indictment of the brutal and relentless homophobia of U.S. military life” and also a “more subtle critique . . . of western culture . . . that reacts to any breach of discipline or convention with a fierce, repressive violence and a demand that we all conform, or be silent.”
Alternatively, we could have dropped in on “Bin Laden: The One Man Show” that featured a “well-spoken Englishman politely offering tea and biscuits to his audience.” The play presents a “different truth, a version we never get to see, free from projection, indoctrination and cartoon villainy.” Cartoon villainy? Has anti-Americanism so distorted the moral reasoning of the playwright and the critic?
“Bonk!” provided audiences with “serious and rather stomach-churning anatomical detail,” as well as a faked female orgasm to “knock Meg Ryan into a cocked hat.” “Nick Helm: One Man Mega Myth” boasts an “amazing set involving 13 London buses [to scale]” and “giant penises (not his own).” Well, that’s presumably because they couldn’t book Anthony Weiner.
Why don’t you guess what the play “The Extremists” is about? The Taliban? The Shining Path? Al-Qaida? No, the audience meets “Norman Kreeger, author of Extremism in the 20th Century and Beyond.” He’s a guest on a TV chat show, where he expounds his “philosophy of free-market democracy and the necessity of the war on terror.” He “almost persuades you that there is an enemy out there . . . the only thing is, the more he and the TV anchor explain their beliefs, the more they become indistinguishable from the enemy they claim to share so little with.”
“Eastend Caberet: Dirty Talk” is described as “delightfully dirty as ever.” The female star kicks off her stiletto heels and crawls through the audience, dragging men on stage to “share their dance moves and sex noises.”
We’ve come a long way from the “bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomand.”
American writer David Sedaris is on hand to share his fiction. One story, “I Brake for Traditional Marriage,” features a character so outraged by a gay marriage bill that he “shoots his wife and daughter before stabbing his mother-in-law with an ice pick and driving into a pedestrian.” What was that about cartoon villainy?
This is not to single out the Scots. The leftist tripe and cultural waste they’re enjoying is available in every western capital, including our own. The difference, while there still is one, is that the relentless leftism goes almost entirely unrebutted there.
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butchersapron said:
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In Duck Soup, one of the stuffy characters responds to Groucho’s raillery with the protest: “I didn’t come here to be insulted!” to which Groucho quips “Oh really? Where do you usually go?”

I went to Scotland. Don’t misunderstand; the Scots were delightful hosts. The country is as beautiful as advertised, but a few days in Edinburgh during the “Fringe” festival is enough to bury images of thistles and bagpipes very deep.

Modern Scotland is deep-dyed in socialism. The Scottish parliament, revived in 1998 in the hope that a measure of self-rule would vitiate the independence movement, is dominated by parties of the left. The Scottish National Party, which favors (in addition to separation from England) “free” education through university, unilateral nuclear disarmament, steeply progressive taxation and the “eradication” of poverty, holds 65 of 129 seats. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and a couple of green parties hold 47 seats, while the conservatives claim just 15. Of the 51 members of the House of Commons representing Scottish constituencies, exactly one is a conservative.

Now, about the “Fringe.” It’s a festival of performances, concerts, dance, circuses and street theater that dominates the city every August. Just based on the descriptions available in the local paper, The Scotsman, many of the offerings were repellent.

We could have seen a play titled “The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning,” which the Scotsman described as a “shocking indictment of the brutal and relentless homophobia of U.S. military life” and also a “more subtle critique . . . of western culture . . . that reacts to any breach of discipline or convention with a fierce, repressive violence and a demand that we all conform, or be silent.”

Alternatively, we could have dropped in on “Bin Laden: The One Man Show” that featured a “well-spoken Englishman politely offering tea and biscuits to his audience.” The play presents a “different truth, a version we never get to see, free from projection, indoctrination and cartoon villainy.” Cartoon villainy? Has anti-Americanism so distorted the moral reasoning of the playwright and the critic?

“Bonk!” provided audiences with “serious and rather stomach-churning anatomical detail,” as well as a faked female orgasm to “knock Meg Ryan into a cocked hat.” “Nick Helm: One Man Mega Myth” boasts an “amazing set involving 13 London buses [to scale]” and “giant penises (not his own).” Well, that’s presumably because they couldn’t book Anthony Weiner.

Why don’t you guess what the play “The Extremists” is about? The Taliban? The Shining Path? Al-Qaida? No, the audience meets “Norman Kreeger, author of Extremism in the 20th Century and Beyond.” He’s a guest on a TV chat show, where he expounds his “philosophy of free-market democracy and the necessity of the war on terror.” He “almost persuades you that there is an enemy out there . . . the only thing is, the more he and the TV anchor explain their beliefs, the more they become indistinguishable from the enemy they claim to share so little with.”

“Eastend Caberet: Dirty Talk” is described as “delightfully dirty as ever.” The female star kicks off her stiletto heels and crawls through the audience, dragging men on stage to “share their dance moves and sex noises.”

We’ve come a long way from the “bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomand.”

American writer David Sedaris is on hand to share his fiction. One story, “I Brake for Traditional Marriage,” features a character so outraged by a gay marriage bill that he “shoots his wife and daughter before stabbing his mother-in-law with an ice pick and driving into a pedestrian.” What was that about cartoon villainy?

This is not to single out the Scots. The leftist tripe and cultural waste they’re enjoying is available in every western capital, including our own. The difference, while there still is one, is that the relentless leftism goes almost entirely unrebutted there.
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Modern Britain is deep in socialism too, by the measure of what most people would actually like. Scotland has its own regional parliament. Give each Scotland-sized chunk of England its own parliament with similar powers, and we'd end up with similar results in most places. Yorkshire is the same size as Scotland more or less, and I'd wager that a Yorkshire parliament would be more left-wing than a Scottish one. Even in the south east, regional assemblies would have to be more responsive to what most people actually want - a Kent parliament or a Sussex parliament would be more left-wing than the current government.

The nature of regional assemblies itself is more important than the nature of Scotland - no regional assembly anywhere in the country would be elected on a mandate that was more right-wing than the national government. The whole point of regional assemblies is that they get their people more stuff than they would otherwise have.
 
littlebabyjesus said:
Modern Britain is deep in socialism too, by the measure of what most people would actually like. Scotland has its own regional parliament.
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Scotland has a NATIONAL parliament, Scotland is a country not a region no matter what Blair and the Westminster wankers try to tell you.

And who comes to Scotland, to Edinburgh, in August and thinks that's representative of the whole country?? :facepalm:
 
Edinburgh in August, is representative of THE ENTIRE UK arts scene, as it is effectively a trade show, from which all the arts centres and theatres come and work out what to book for the year.
The festival is largely staying neutral on the referendum, there are three plays referringto it on the fringe, quite liked the adaptation of a Finnish play, and the International has already ruled out doing anything in the run up next year- so not a smart move antagonising people

If she had hung . around til say the 30th she would have seen its a different city entirely. Admittedly one with quite a lot of left wing fly posting going on.
 
gosub said:
Edinburgh in August, is representative of THE ENTIRE UK arts scene
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Indeed. The Festival and Fringe (or, as I call the "the Middle Class Haj") is hardly a good place to start to get a picture of the population of Scotland.

And I'll bet she never saw the shows she's trashing.
 
having read it in context tis nothing to do with no campaign, just some US nutjob who would have been happier staying up the castle watching the marching.
 
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