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MUNGUIN'S NEW REPUBLIC 
Well, yes, obviously. Great video.
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It may be worth, on this thread, reminding people that Mr Rees Mogg, who is now a relatively senior, and certainly very influential, member of the English Cabinet has said that all devolution was an error, a grave one, made by the last Labour Government and it should be done away with.
Rees Mogg used to say ridiculous things and use long, made-up Latin words to say them in and people smiled and said that it was part of the joy of the eccentric English parliament. Rees Mogg is now the leader of the Commons. He has authority.
Will he put that to the British people… the Welsh and Scotland… and, of course, the Northern Irish in referenda?
I wonder too if he realises the consequences for the Irish peace agreement of abolishing Stormont.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/En6hXdaXYAMoteG?format=jpg&name=medium
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Jeez… no words.
Cassandra just snorted.
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She been seeing too much of Michael Gove, perchance?
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Imagine there being a party set up to abolish Westminster and the HOL’s lol, people would laugh their freakin heads off! Wonder who’s money is behind that utter tripe and that guy, did he just land from another planet, I think so.
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Imagine if he was your neighbour … EEEEK
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Well, there was a party which claimed to have a policy of doing half of that and getting rid of the House of Lords, or it did when it was founded by a miner’s son from Lanarkshire who worked in the pits from the age of 10… but that was over a hundred years ago, as I’m sure that well-known class warrior Baron Darling of Roulanish would gladly tell you.
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I’m sure the Noble Aristo has better things to do with his time than explain things to paupers suck as us.
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Keir Hardie’s letters are a very eye opening read. I must look out the book again, I think it’s called ‘K.H’s letters and lectures’.
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I haven’t read those, Hetty, but let me guess: they’re far, far too radical for today’s Labour Party.
Family lore says that one of my great-uncles was Keir Hardie’s election agent in 1906. I love the idea so much that I haven’t made any effort to find out for sure, in case it’s a myth.
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The book has some of his parliamentary speeches, would be far too radical for Labour red Tories today. Not even sure Starmer is a red Tory, more like just, Tory.
Keir Hardie’s Writing and Speeches, 1888-1915, it’s not a big book, wonder if available at archive.org, it’s Ā£24 on amazon.
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When Rees-Mogg campaigned in Fife twenty-two years ago, he was in turn, ridiculed and threatened, so much so that Henry McLeish had to protect him.
I think he may have a grudge against Scotland…
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Off topic a tad. Someone on, I think, The National, had a go at The Reverend Stewart Campbell, who , for reasons unknown to me, was given a ‘right of reply’.
Neither the criicism nor the original defence of himself appears to me to now be available.
Do any good Munguinites have a link, preferably to The National, so I could discuss with him where I think he has become someone who’s agenda ain’t about independence any more, but about buying into his bullshit views about lots of other matters?
A working link would be useful.
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Is this the one?
https://www.thenational.scot/news/18901888.smear-typical-abuse-dished-misogynistic-factions/
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Thanks Conan, I could not find that at all.
What is even odder is that his post isn’t open to replies. At least not from me. The National either allows discussion or it let’s a lunatic free reign.
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I wouldn’t bother if I were you, Douglas: as far as I’m concerned, he’s relegated himself to irrelevance with his outbursts.
I didn’t spot the article in question and wouldn’t know where to look (I’ve never had any success using the National’s search function) – and I wouldn’t have read it anyway.
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It seems Conan has found it, Ed.
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Ed’s probably your man for that, Douglas.
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Well, he turned up looking like a refugee from the South of England, in a Bentley, driven, some say, by his Nanny and campaigned in a working class area … No call to threaten him, of course, but ridicule, I’d say so. He was ridiculous.
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Possibly he found Scottish geography somewhat confusing and thought he was down for a seat in north-east Fife, Conan.
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They should probably have explained the geography in Latin.
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Here is a better answer to nats
SĆ©dition
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Nothing like the old hatred eh Niko?
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The old but still burning red hot š„µ
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God save us from all these quasi-religious cults.
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Speeling mistake?
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Kevin says we should compromise on cumts, but I vetoed his suggestion without a second thought.
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It may have gone to Kevin’s head that I was nice about him.
I shall be more careful in future.
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I know I am going on about this a bit, but ‘The National’ allows Campbell to speak and stops comment on his nonsense.
I have much to say about Campbell, and yet I am silenced.
Quite why they give him a ‘slot’ and deny comments on his ideas is not what I’d expect of the editor of the National.
Callum Baird?
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It seems very unfair. Maybe some comments (not yours) were becoming offensive and they were advised by their legal team to shut them down?
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