Mark Wadsworth: "SNP stuns Labour in Glasgow East"

Friday, 25 July 2008

Having stunned them, could it please use live ammo for the mercy shot?

Anonymous said...: "Mercy shot"? Heaven help me. I read it first time as "money shot". But on the other hand...... :-); 25 July 2008 at 11:28
Anonymous said...: I believe that the usual measure is to cut the throat after stunning.; 25 July 2008 at 11:29
Anonymous said...: I believe that the usual measure is to cut the throat after stunning.; 25 July 2008 at 11:29
Anonymous said...: The most stunning remark of the evening was that of Annabel Goldie (the Scottish Tory leader) who is reported (in your quoted piece) to have said apropos of the Conservatives' 1,639 votes that "throughout the UK it is the Conservatives who are setting the political agenda". What is this woman on?; 25 July 2008 at 11:45
Anonymous said...: halal / kosher involves the cutting of the throat only, all other slaughter (except for poultry) is carried out by stunning the animals brain, which renders it unconscious, followed by cutting of the throat, that achieves death.

I should know, I've done it. Sadly, not on a serving BBC / Nu Labour alliance animal.; 25 July 2008 at 13:56
Mark Wadsworth said...: Serf, HH, I stand corrected.; 25 July 2008 at 14:06
Anonymous said...: I'm astonished that such a heavily Roman Catholic Glasgow seat would vote against Labour. It seems the least I can do is lower the tone; perhaps it's not a seat where you gain any advantage from being lead by a Son of the Manse.; 25 July 2008 at 17:23

Friday, 25 July 2008