tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972114991869354050.post812376123683218392..comments2024-02-01T14:56:24.725+00:00Comments on The Laird Report: Help Wanted: Labour leadership race flounders as both candidates struggle to offer a vision that resonates with the public never mind their own members, Scottish Labour needs to set reset party direction, lack of vision and new ideas dominate a contest the public don’t care about, ‘retread policies’ and ‘jobs for the boys’, wow, I am impressedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972114991869354050.post-82166972100354564642017-10-04T15:40:45.912+01:002017-10-04T15:40:45.912+01:00Our politicians are not only 'upper class para...Our politicians are not only 'upper class parasites playing politics' they are carpet baggers who lack proper intelligence and believe themselves to be entitled to our respect and loyalty whilst treating us with disrespect and contempt. When Joan McAlpine MSP (Regional List) can claim on expenses for toilet rolls and go on junkets to Brussels with her Holyrood committee and staff then they are pushing us too far and the day will come when we all have had enough. Holyrood is past its sellby date.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972114991869354050.post-63074910770254237982017-10-04T11:50:21.101+01:002017-10-04T11:50:21.101+01:00Just underlines the irrelevance of the party I am ...Just underlines the irrelevance of the party I am afraid Mr Laird.D.Stewartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972114991869354050.post-14980203635548891932017-10-03T21:46:51.686+01:002017-10-03T21:46:51.686+01:00Pretty nice post. I just stumbled upon your weblog...Pretty nice post. I just stumbled upon your weblog and wanted to mention that I have <br />truly loved surfing around your weblog posts. After all <br />I will be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write once more soon!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972114991869354050.post-27039161070922301912017-10-03T19:32:01.433+01:002017-10-03T19:32:01.433+01:00In Scotland it’s reached the stage that you vote f...In Scotland it’s reached the stage that you vote for the party you hate the least. None of them seem to offer anything constructive. They all appear to be very similar. Our politicians are really just a bunch of upper class parasites playing politics for the sake of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972114991869354050.post-37799283972746528582017-10-03T18:13:07.094+01:002017-10-03T18:13:07.094+01:00It's a disaster, George. No improvement in equ...It's a disaster, George. No improvement in equality, no payrise, working class people often don't have the qualifications that the 'white-collar professional' middle classes possess. Are they introducing any suggestions for how to help them achieve? How to assist in people climbing on the work ladder? Are they balls! Maybe an initiative to start businesses and get on in the world? All Blair said while we were growing up was; 'Education, education, education.' What does that even mean?<br /><br />Young people like me and my friends want to start living a life, but finding any work is a struggle, and then you can't earn enough to pay for bus fare, let alone pay for rent or mortgages. That's why people are living on food banks, people in their 20s and 30s still living at home, and the only solutions on offer are cuts, nationalists and populists (who often stir shit and spread hatred in their wake rather than help people), and the sort of socialism that recently crippled Venezuela. Oh, and corporate bosses that set us and immigrants on one another in order to compete for jobs, while they ruthlessly exploit us.<br /><br />All we want are work and prosperity and the means to achieve that. I would chew off my right arm to have a candidate to vote for that offered that, something like the social democracy setup they have in Sweden or in Switzerland. I dream of someone who offers means to help raise up the working classes to better prosperity, to offer young people the sort of work that gets us enough to start a life, but as it is, all we seem to have are extreme right-wingers, Tories, red Tories (Blairites), and flogging-the-dead-horse socialists.<br /><br />If they are listening to you, tell them from us that we are sick of it.THE INVISIBLE MANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00300169798315384245noreply@blogger.com