tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post5440855094336209831..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: Half-Right, I'd sayMark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-85937898427675409942015-06-20T23:54:29.628+01:002015-06-20T23:54:29.628+01:00About 10 percent of the SNP membership are English...About 10 percent of the SNP membership are English.<br /><br />See <a href="http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/meet-campaigners-leading-fight-scottish-2224023" rel="nofollow">this article</a> which asks English supporters why they do it.Derekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296053477905542366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-10751498014264306172015-06-15T13:44:57.156+01:002015-06-15T13:44:57.156+01:00DBC,
Schacht's work with the Rentenmark and t...DBC,<br /><br />Schacht's work with the Rentenmark and the Young Plan really helped Germany in the 1920s and without the Wall St Crash, we maybe would have never had the Nazis.<br /><br />Hjalmar Schacht was one of the better people involved in the Reich, but the Mefo bills were what allowed Germany to rearm without creating a paper trail. It was directly done to avoid Versailles as fake money to arms companies. And yes, it created full employment, but it was not sustainable. The German government was spending 150% of their tax receipts.<br />Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-64746565772145644862015-06-15T12:30:35.335+01:002015-06-15T12:30:35.335+01:00"Never mind that it was created 400 years aft..."Never mind that it was created 400 years after Mel Gibson was fighting the English, and about 100 years after the act of the union."<br /><br />Nearly all of Scotland's cultural heritage was "restored" in the C19th. The traditional dress of the Highlanders was not the kilt but the belted plaid, a blanket-sized piece of cloth draped over one shoulder and belted around the middle. It had the advantage of doubling as something to sleep under.Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-12478463982654830512015-06-15T11:07:55.482+01:002015-06-15T11:07:55.482+01:00Derek,
I disagree. They're anti-English and i...Derek,<br /><br />I disagree. They're anti-English and in terms of the establishment they are fully signed-up. Alex Salmond has never worked anywhere but a quango. Nicola Sturgeon worked as a solicitor before going into politics. John Swinney worked in quangos and banking. Roseanna Cunningham was a solicitor.<br /><br />Their land reform is more about hitting the old establishment, owners of large chunks of highland estates. People with a huge volume of low value land.Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-1484710508105016942015-06-15T10:00:20.997+01:002015-06-15T10:00:20.997+01:00Should n't we all have a downer on the bankers...Should n't we all have a downer on the bankers, as, since the publication by the BoE of Money Creation in the Modern Economy they have been officially shown up for creating money out of nothing but lending it out at interest? Hjalmar Schacht in pre-war Germany during the Depression made up his own currency without bank backing, the Labour Treasury Certificates, and everybody returned to work and the country came out of an abysmal depression within two years as Ellen Brown the proponent of Public Banking has pointed out. Lest this be thought inherently Fascist, Abraham Lincoln found he couldn't fight the Civil war with bank finance and paid for it with his own Greenbacks .<br />Do not forget they are trying to arrest bankers in Iceland for going about their normal business: they are fleeing to good old corrupt Britain for refuge.Looks like they'd get it on here.DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-83148870042732088832015-06-15T08:39:56.025+01:002015-06-15T08:39:56.025+01:00"and while the Nazis were mates with the land..."and while the Nazis were mates with the landowners they did have a downer on bankers"<br /><br />and on landlords, who were also commonly Jewish.Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-88115242916080234732015-06-15T06:22:51.424+01:002015-06-15T06:22:51.424+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Derekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296053477905542366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-59707831802441507912015-06-15T06:22:50.971+01:002015-06-15T06:22:50.971+01:00As nationalists go, the SNP are about the least ob...As nationalists go, the SNP are about the least objectionable around. They aren't so much anti-English as anti-Establishment. Quite a few English residents in Scotland get this and become members or supporters. But of course the Establishment isn't too keen on anti-Establishment parties and so recasts the anti-Establishment message as an anti-English message and tries to link the SNP to far more objectionable nationalist movements. It's not too difficult to do this since even really unpleasant nationalist movements have some relatively unobjectionable aspects which they all share. Hence the tarring of the SNP with the Nazi brush.Derekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296053477905542366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-26538787900128750482015-06-14T18:13:16.219+01:002015-06-14T18:13:16.219+01:00"They blamed anything that they saw as not be..."They blamed anything that they saw as not being "hard work"."<br />Sound like IDS and his nonsense about people being "workshy."Randomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04445772572707818311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-86461647642503640612015-06-14T17:22:23.467+01:002015-06-14T17:22:23.467+01:00I'm just saying that there's a lot of simi...I'm just saying that there's a lot of similarities in nationalist movements. That said, the Greens are quite a lot like the Nazis. They are anti-capitalist, hark back to a better past, and believe in localism. <br /><br />The thing with the Nazis is that they didn't just blame bankers. They blamed anything that they saw as not being "hard work". it was directly from Marx's Labour Theory of Value. You couldn't be a venture capitalist in the Nazi era, because that was seen as being parasitical.<br /><br />I've nothing specifically against bankers. It's the political influence that's a problem. Allow banks to fail, introduce LVT and you've basically solved the problem.Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.com