Comments on: “Thanks - you’ve been a great audience. I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.” http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/ crass, boorish and more a bruiser than blogger Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:34:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: James Graham http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33466 James Graham Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:09:47 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33466 <blockquote>Anyway, you’ve had plenty stick for your views and I’ve had none</blockquote> I always know I'm onto a winner when my opponents are so awash with hubris. Clearly you have no problem with this statment then: <blockquote>Scottish Nationalism is not civic nationalism no matter how they dress it up.</blockquote>

Anyway, you’ve had plenty stick for your views and I’ve had none

I always know I’m onto a winner when my opponents are so awash with hubris. Clearly you have no problem with this statment then:

Scottish Nationalism is not civic nationalism no matter how they dress it up.

]]> By: Richard Thomson http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33454 Richard Thomson Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:10:19 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33454 But didn't you read the article? They haul down the Union Jack and everything! Anyway, you've had plenty stick for your views and I've had none, which tells its own story really. Can't wait to see Nicol Stephen break cover on Question Time tonight... But didn’t you read the article? They haul down the Union Jack and everything!

Anyway, you’ve had plenty stick for your views and I’ve had none, which tells its own story really. Can’t wait to see Nicol Stephen break cover on Question Time tonight…

]]> By: James Graham http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33453 James Graham Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:08:01 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33453 And yes, for the record, if Alastair Carmichael dressed up as a viking at the start of his re-election campaign declaring that a vote for him is a vote to rape and pillage the evil sassanachs, I might concede you have a point. And yes, for the record, if Alastair Carmichael dressed up as a viking at the start of his re-election campaign declaring that a vote for him is a vote to rape and pillage the evil sassanachs, I might concede you have a point.

]]> By: James Graham http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33452 James Graham Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:05:11 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33452 Richard, if you can't tell the difference between taking part in a bit of silly dressing up and deliberately using politically charged imagery to launch an election campaign, there's no hope for you. Richard, if you can’t tell the difference between taking part in a bit of silly dressing up and deliberately using politically charged imagery to launch an election campaign, there’s no hope for you.

]]> By: Richard Thomson http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33451 Richard Thomson Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:47:15 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33451 I was going to leave this debate alone, but I'm afraid I can't help myself. You're really clutching at straws with this whole Alex Salmond/sword thing. However, look what I found today on the net: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6313537.stm http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/206_shetland1.shtml Pics 6 & 10 on the BBC site I can particularly recommend, since its not every day you get to see Lib Dem Parliamentarians asserting their distinctiveness by posing with axes and dead animals on their head, so as to glorify the rape, murder and pilliage of the Vikings... Come on - either face up to the fact you have no case, or be consistent enough to condemn this electioneering piece of 'violent, backward-looking, ethno-centric imagery' too :-) I was going to leave this debate alone, but I’m afraid I can’t help myself.

You’re really clutching at straws with this whole Alex Salmond/sword thing. However, look what I found today on the net:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6313537.stm

http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/206_shetland1.shtml

Pics 6 & 10 on the BBC site I can particularly recommend, since its not every day you get to see Lib Dem Parliamentarians asserting their distinctiveness by posing with axes and dead animals on their head, so as to glorify the rape, murder and pilliage of the Vikings…

Come on - either face up to the fact you have no case, or be consistent enough to condemn this electioneering piece of ‘violent, backward-looking, ethno-centric imagery’ too :-)

]]> By: James Graham http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33421 James Graham Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:31:02 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33421 Hywel - apologies. I assumed you had seen all the comments in my previous post helpfully pointing it out (with links). I should have been more explicit. Hywel - apologies. I assumed you had seen all the comments in my previous post helpfully pointing it out (with links). I should have been more explicit.

]]> By: Patrick Harris http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33382 Patrick Harris Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:25:21 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33382 So a person can be Scots nationalist = that's OK A person can be Welsh nationalist = OK A person can be Irish nationalist = OK A person can be British nationalist = OK If a person is English nationalist = Bad, Racist, Sour, Ignorant You twisters can't have it all ways. So a person can be Scots nationalist = that’s OK
A person can be Welsh nationalist = OK
A person can be Irish nationalist = OK
A person can be British nationalist = OK

If a person is English nationalist = Bad, Racist, Sour, Ignorant

You twisters can’t have it all ways.

]]> By: Toque http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33366 Toque Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:49:16 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33366 Well, you could say that I am a pseudo-nationalist because whilst I am looking for a degree of self-determination for England I am not looking to break up the UK. I too like Jerusalem and I recognise flags for what they are - political banners, given fresh meaning by a narcissistic prime minister that did constitutional reform on the hoof. Until the nations that comprise the UK are afforded equal constitutional status I renounce my Britishness and I will do everything in my power to destabalise the union and resist the forced regionalisation of England by a British government (the regionalisation of England should be down to England). The Brits may have had the stomach to fight for Britishness in Scotland and Wales but there isn't the money to fight (or bribe) the English as well. The English want constitutional recognition and political equality - that's how it must be in a union of nations. When that happens organisations like the CEP and EDP will disappear. Well, you could say that I am a pseudo-nationalist because whilst I am looking for a degree of self-determination for England I am not looking to break up the UK.

I too like Jerusalem and I recognise flags for what they are - political banners, given fresh meaning by a narcissistic prime minister that did constitutional reform on the hoof. Until the nations that comprise the UK are afforded equal constitutional status I renounce my Britishness and I will do everything in my power to destabalise the union and resist the forced regionalisation of England by a British government (the regionalisation of England should be down to England).

The Brits may have had the stomach to fight for Britishness in Scotland and Wales but there isn’t the money to fight (or bribe) the English as well. The English want constitutional recognition and political equality - that’s how it must be in a union of nations. When that happens organisations like the CEP and EDP will disappear.

]]> By: Grant Thoms http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33365 Grant Thoms Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:22:49 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33365 So James you admit you are a British Nationalist or nationalist whichever way you look at it? It always amazes me how those who are content with the nation state they perceive to live in, think that any sub-nation state citizen is wrong to call for greater autonomy if not full control of their own affairs. Smacks of arrogance and ignorance all rolled into one. So James you admit you are a British Nationalist or nationalist whichever way you look at it? It always amazes me how those who are content with the nation state they perceive to live in, think that any sub-nation state citizen is wrong to call for greater autonomy if not full control of their own affairs. Smacks of arrogance and ignorance all rolled into one.

]]> By: Hywel http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33361 Hywel Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:52:58 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/02/20/thanks-youve-been-a-great-audience-ill-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal/#comment-33361 I've been told (verbally) of what I think your referring to - I just wasn't aware of it "I’m sorry Hywel, but this is one of those absolutes: you do not support BNP candidates for public office under any circumstances, ever, for any reason." And I agree! - I just wasn't sure what you were referring to I’ve been told (verbally) of what I think your referring to - I just wasn’t aware of it

“I’m sorry Hywel, but this is one of those absolutes: you do not support BNP candidates for public office under any circumstances, ever, for any reason.”

And I agree! - I just wasn’t sure what you were referring to

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