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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

David Cameron: Scottish Poll Tax Lies

Tory leader David Cameron's speech was basically an anti-English rant, designed to appeal to the most insensitive and bigoted of Scots bigots, and its references to the Poll Tax as an "experiment" imposed on Scotland a year before England, as already pointed out on this blog, were pure myth, but added fuel to the anti-English flavour.

Now, Tory MP Malcolm Rifkind has put the record straight in a letter to The Scotsman -although a well-known anti-English bigot himself, and therefore agreeing with the majority of David Cameron's bile, Mr Rifkind does not let the Poll Tax myth pass unchallenged. Will David Cameron now have the good grace to apologise for his disgraceful outburst, for misinforming the Scots, and fuelling further anti-English hatred in Scotland?

Or will it take further incidents of seven-year-old kids being thumped or disabled people being dragged from their cars before Mr Cameron realises that inciting hatred against the English in Scotland is simply not on?

Mr Rifkind's letter from The Scotsman (22/9/2006)...

I
have read your report (16 September) of David Cameron’s remarks, and I very much agree with his general observations. But you report him as saying, on the community charge or poll tax, that “the decision to treat Scotland as a laboratory for experimentation in new methods of local government finance was clumsy and unjust”.

It has sometimes been suggested that the decision to introduce the poll tax in Scotland a year earlier than in England was to enable it to be tested. This is untrue, as those active in Scottish politics at the time will confirm.

The background is well known. Scotland, which had suffered a rates revaluation, was in uproar about the unfairness of the domestic rates system. Rates were also unpopular in England and the government decided to abolish them and replace them with the community charge or poll tax throughout Britain.

For various technical reasons it was going to take much longer for the legislation to be prepared in England than in Scotland. George Younger, who was then Scottish secretary, persuaded the Cabinet that the legislation should be introduced as soon as possible in Scotland and should not have to wait until the English were ready. His Cabinet colleagues accepted this request.

At no time was its timing pressed on Scottish Office ministers by Margaret Thatcher or English colleagues.

I, and my colleagues, have long recognised that the introduction of the poll tax throughout Britain was a serious political mistake. Introducing it a year earlier in Scotland was also a mistake, as we should have anticipated the damaging claim, however incorrect, that the government was using Scotland to test the new reform.

That does not alter the historical reality that the earlier introduction in Scotland, wise or foolish, was decided by Scottish Office ministers because of the unpopularity of domestic rates and not because of any pressure from Mrs Thatcher or other colleagues.

(SIR) MALCOLM RIFKIND, MP
House of Commons
London

Cameron should apologise to everybody in England.

And then resign. His raging Anglophobia makes him unfit to be Conservative party leader. Perhaps he could join New Labour?

More on the Poll Tax history
here.

Hat tip to the
England Project.

UPDATE...

Greg from Cumbria - howdy!

I hate the way English MPs and England were blamed for "forcing" the Poll Tax onto Scotland early. I remember that smug Australian Clive James stating on TV that the current situation was "Scotland's revenge for the Poll Tax". Stupid man.

Now at last the truth is being publicised - and, by the way, Cameron is not the only one guilty of blackening the reputation of English MPs in Scotland over the Poll Tax. A few years ago, Tony Blair was up there, going on about the West Lothian Question and saying that it was "not the same as English MPs railroading the Poll Tax through in Scotland". I think it was quoted on the CEP site or News Blog

It's not just David Cameron who should be apologising!

Thanks, Greg. Anybody got a copy of the Blair comment?

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The NHS - British - Not English, Even When It's English - Gordon Brown Twists Facts - Again.















It's amazing that Gordon Brown was once again referring to the "British NHS" on the Daily Politics recently - the NHS he was discussing was simply the one in England.

He has no problem separating English from British when he's in Scotland, does he? This type of thing simply heightens my distrust of the man no end.

He's doing himself no favours at all.

Meanwhile, BBC Online recently mentioned Gordon's "Scottish roots" as being problematic for him in his ambition to become PM. Nonsense. Tony Blair has Scottish roots and he's PM, and there are plenty of MPs with Scottish roots in England.

Gordon's constituency is the problem, as the BBC well knows.

The BBC is one of the biggest stirrers of already muddy waters around. And we HAVE to pay for it. It's dictated.

I suggest that if Gordon Brown becomes PM and the vast majority of England's electorate continues to sit back and do nothing, we really will pay - big time!

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

David Cameron's Anti-English Chickens Come Home To Roost...













Conservative Party leader David Cameron's disgraceful vote whoring in Glasgow last week has not, as he probably hoped, gone unnoticed in England.

Mr Cameron's attack on the English was totally uncalled for and totally unfair. Now UKIP have published the illustration above on their site, harking back to anti-English horrors in Scotland earlier this year.

All Mr Cameron has done is stir up negative memories and feelings this side of the border.

What a nasty little man he is.

Hat tip to Sarah at the CEP News Blog.


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Saturday, September 16, 2006

David Cameron and the Conservative Party Ditch England

Oh look - lovely new Conservative Party logos (thanks to Stuart Dickson, via the CEP News Blog).

There's one for the Scottish Conservatives. One for... I think it means the Welsh Conservatives (actually, the vast majority of people in Wales do not speak or read Welsh, so I won't be alone in not being able to decipher it) and the last one is for the Conservatives.

None of them are aimed at us here in England, but it's nice to see them all the same. I hope the Tories do very well in Scotland and Wales.

Little Scotlander David Cameron's new policy of alienating and insulting the English puzzles me, but I hope it works well for him. I was fascinated at his rewriting of Poll Tax history as a Scottish experiment and I'm sure his growing number of supporters in Scotland have much else to look forward to!

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Friday, September 15, 2006

Conservative Leader David Cameron - Outed - Anti-English Bigot of the Highest Order!

Conservative leader David Cameron has good advice for the English today. They must start respecting the Scots.

Because Scots have "gripes about their place in Britain".

This is the country with its own parliament. The one with five million citizens which pushes the one next door (of 50 million citizens) around.

Mr Cameron has been watching the Bill, a TV soap opera, which has apparently portrayed some drunken Scots in its storylines. This, he has decided, will not do.

Well, Mr Cameron, quite a high proportion of street drunks around where I live in Cambridgeshire do happen to be Scottish. I don't know why. Is my area not typical?

If Mr Cameron disagrees with something on TV, he should write to the company concerned, not kick out at the English and reveal his biased nature.

Being half Scots/half English, my own findings are that apart from the odd flippant use of the word "Jock", my English relatives accept the Scots as kin. But from the majority of members of my North of the Border family, vitriol against the English regularly spews forth. It can be alarming.

Remember people being attacked in Scotland for wearing England shirts this year, including a seven-year-old child?

This is how Mr Cameron's outrageous planned speech is reported in one Scottish newspaper:

David Cameron will today tell the English they are ignorant about Scotland and will challenge the stereotype "that always has a Scot as the drunk on The Bill".....He will add that one aspect of Scottish-English relations he wants to address is attitudes, "and in particular, the ignorance of English people about Scots and Scotland...It matters because the Union is supposed to be a relationship of equals. Not in terms of size, obviously [Nor voting privileges or health, transport and education funding]. But certainly in terms of that most precious of commodities – respect."

The insertion belongs to Gareth of the CEP News Blog.

Mr Cameron has already stopped his party from looking into the democratic deficit facing England. He has already told us that the Barnett Formula is justified because the Scots and Scotland bring so much to the UK. He has already blethered on about the Scottish blood in his veins.

So, despite declaring himself English in his speech, it is clear that Cameron is, in reality, a rabid Little Scotlander.

I'm very puzzled by one statement in the Scotsman article:

David Cameron will today tell the English they are ignorant about Scotland...

But his speech is in Glasgow and will, in all probability, not be reported in England.

Brave Mr Cameron. Bigoted Mr Cameron. Slimy Mr Cameron.

UPDATE

Well, what a speech!

Superhuman Scots? A mangling of the situation regarding "British" sports men and women? A viewpoint that is so plainly bigoted Scot that no amount of David Cameron crying "I'm English!" or going on about "respecting" each corner of the UK will disguise it?

It's all there and reads like an ignorant rant on the letters page of a cheap Scottish tabloid newspaper.

Oh dear... the Tories will be biting the dust in England as well as in Scotland if this keeps up.

The full text of Mr Cameron's venemous, anti-English rant can be found below....

http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=132019&speeches=1

UPDATE 2

Greg from Cumbria

I believe that the only good Tory is a lavotory, always have, but the Poll Tax did not begin in Scotland a year early because it was an experiment. Plans were well in hand to implement it in England in 1989 [ true, Greg - see here], it was a certainty for 1990, but the early start for Scotland was because of a mid-80s rates re-evaluation - and many Scots believed that the Tax would help.

Cameron apologises for this "experiment" because his grasp of past politics is blurred and odd, clouded by Scottish bigotry and a desire to fan the flames of anti-English hatred in his spiritual homeland. Scotland is the country where a child was attacked for wearing an England football shirt this year. And David Cameron has been stirring the anti-English pot further. What a great man.

Loved the way "nations and regions" sneaked into his speech as reported in the Scotsman!

David Cameron is appealing to anti-English bigots in Scotland - and is clearly one himself. He thinks it's clever to declare himself "proud to be English" but he isn't. Englishness is a state of a mind, like any other national feeling. Cameron is a Little Scotlander - striking out at "sour Little Englanders" (people like me and thee who want a fair deal for England) and slagging us off left, right and centre to his perceived fellow countrymen.

The fact that they wouldn't elect him gift wrapped with tartan bells on is lost on him. And his stock will sink lower in England because of this.

But his heart belongs to Scotland.

It is time the Tories got themselves a decent leader - one dedicated to restoring democracy to the 50 million people who make up the electorate in England, not a shit stirring Little Scotlander.

Must do better, folks.

And here's Sylv from Salford

I reckon you're all over-estimating Dave Cameron. Yeh, the guy might have some romantic Victorian notions of his ancestors tossing their cabers in the bonny, bonny heather, but he's not really pro-Scottish. Or anti-English. He's just a Unionist twit with a huge ego.

"Imagine if I get more Scots to vote Tory - to vote for ME! Imagine what a feather in my cap that would be! Everybody would then KNOW how super I am!"

It's vote whoring, pure and simple.

The fact that he might upset the English with his unfair comments or stir up more anti English crap in Scotland doesn't occur to him.

The fact that the Scots think he's a pathetic Tory twat (and he is) is completely beyond his radar.

He's a bear of very little brain.

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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Gordon Brown: Scottish and British are Separate Nationalities

Via Gareth at the CEP News Blog comes hot news from our possible PM-to-be...

The prospect of an MP representing a Scottish constituency becoming British PM is a tremendous blow to democratic rule, but now Gordon Brown has made things even worse by revealing his thoughts on the state of Britain - the British rabble and the Scottish elite...

Gordon Brown has been shooting his mouth off in his homeland, the BBC (but only in Scotland) reports, and it transpires that he believes the Scots are a separate nationality to the British.

On first sight, the article reads like a wonderful rallying call for the Scots as a constituent nationality of Britishness (although his speech does nothing to address the democratic deficit in England).

But then Gordon slips up...

Here's Mr Brown revealing his hand on BBC Scotland Online.

"A Britain founded on both the devolution of power but also on a partnership which brings us stability, co-operation and mutual support is the best way of expressing the aspirations of the Scottish and British people."

At this point, he does not even dignify the English and Welsh nationalities by acknowledging their existence.

Gordon said it himself. So, Mr Brown, you are Scots, not British, so why are you trying to become British PM?

UPDATE

14/9/2006

Sue Campbell

Gordon Brown believes so passionately in the concept of Britishness that he shoots his wife off to Scotland to ensure that his children are born Scottish!

England is "Britain", or "UK" to Mr Brown, there to be used and abused, but his homeland is always "Scotland". Sweet bonny Scotland. Like many Scots MPs, Brown is a twisted dictator.

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Sunday, September 10, 2006

England: The Scots Rule Us and Now Some of Them Want To Poison Us...

Creepy news via Wonko, the England Project and the CEP News Blog.

Not content with higher public spending, their own parliament, the right to force legislation onto England, life prolonging/life saving drugs not available in England etc, etc, etc, the Scots (well, at least some of them) now want to poison us. The Scottish National Liberation Army wants to poison England's water supply.

There are apparently details of how to contaminate a city's water supply on the Scottish National Liberation Army's website (although the organisation makes it plain that it is not out to poison the Welsh or Northern Irish, only the English) and they declare "this is a war".

The threat was sent to the offices of the Sunday Times in Glasgow. The English edition of this newspaper has decided to suppress this information.

How many brain cells exist amongst the members of the SNLA? And just what "UK" country needs liberating in reality?

The one with no national representation...

The one whose students are discriminated against by the Scots...

The one which endures spiteful legislation foisted on to it by Scots MPs...

The one some Scots and Welsh people use fake racist purity arguments about being "Celts" to abuse...

The one which pays the most but receives the least in public services...

The one with the collapsing health service...

The one where lives are valued least by the NHS...

The one with the rivers now falling under the non-democratic rule of the Scottish Parliament...

ENGLAND!



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