Following the Glasgow North East election results the winning candidate claimed it as a victory for the policies of Gordon Brown and the Labour party. This is strange, because really it was a victory for idiocy.
The Mighty D forwarded me this article on the BBC today about the constituency that effectively founded the Labour movement. It has been hardcore and die hard ever since and has never even looked at another woman let alone had an affair. No, This part of Glasgow is socialist through and through and loyal to the red cause to its very core.
Which is surprising because it's a toilet.
It is a common mistake to blame Thatcher for the demise of British manufacturing and industry. Yes, she hammered that last nail in good and proper, but the corpse was long in its coffin before she turned up. Post-1945 the Labour machinery whirred into action and nationalised everything, the road to ruin had been started upon.
Glasgow is the archetypal socialist quagmire, where nothing is their heroes fault. This despite a Labour MP, Council and epicentre for much of Labour investment. No, it's all the Tories fault.
The Beeb article enters into a lovely bit of bias. The North British Locomotive Company was ruined it says because of the shift into the diesel era. Surprising really as the Company did in fact make a lot of diesel and electric engines for a number of years, the reasons for its demise are due to the creation of British rail and the fact they were shit. Take this from Wikipedia for instance:
The Mighty D forwarded me this article on the BBC today about the constituency that effectively founded the Labour movement. It has been hardcore and die hard ever since and has never even looked at another woman let alone had an affair. No, This part of Glasgow is socialist through and through and loyal to the red cause to its very core.
Which is surprising because it's a toilet.
It is a common mistake to blame Thatcher for the demise of British manufacturing and industry. Yes, she hammered that last nail in good and proper, but the corpse was long in its coffin before she turned up. Post-1945 the Labour machinery whirred into action and nationalised everything, the road to ruin had been started upon.
Glasgow is the archetypal socialist quagmire, where nothing is their heroes fault. This despite a Labour MP, Council and epicentre for much of Labour investment. No, it's all the Tories fault.
The Beeb article enters into a lovely bit of bias. The North British Locomotive Company was ruined it says because of the shift into the diesel era. Surprising really as the Company did in fact make a lot of diesel and electric engines for a number of years, the reasons for its demise are due to the creation of British rail and the fact they were shit. Take this from Wikipedia for instance:
A typical example of this was the grade of steel used for exhaust manifolds in the Class 43s - frequent manifold failures….More importantly, the driving cabs of the locomotives would fill with poisonous exhaust fumes...Perhaps unwisely, North British supplied many of its diesel and electric locomotives to BR at a loss, This and the continuing stream of warranty claims to cure design and workmanship faults proved fatal
And when did all this happen? 1962, the dying days of Macmillan and the increase in full on socialism. Wilson was soon in power for a whole 6 years, and strangely things actually got worse. Yes, the oft mentioned Red Road development was built between....1964 and 1969. So Harold Wilson and full on period of Labour government then.
A total disaster of urban renewal in the 60s mould, many similar schemes were demolished elsewhere in the country in the following years, not so in Glasgow where they still stand.
So a place with some of the worst unemployment and benefits issues, health, crime, violence, drugs, social stagnation and general nastiness has just voted, oh yes, Labour. Again. Yet again the party that has brought nothing but ruination to this part of the UK has been re-elected by all of 30% of the population. They've even had 12 years of a huge Labour majority, which has still given them nothing.
Because it has all served them so well hasn't it. They are the 'working' masses any socialist builds his empire on, they will never see any benefit from it and neither will the rest of us.
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B and D meet up, cue weather
Yes, this weekend the Might D is travelling down to see the Mighty B. I feel I must apologise therefore for the weather, but this is a natural outcome of the drawing together of two vast powers. The atmosphere just cannot handle it.
A total disaster of urban renewal in the 60s mould, many similar schemes were demolished elsewhere in the country in the following years, not so in Glasgow where they still stand.
So a place with some of the worst unemployment and benefits issues, health, crime, violence, drugs, social stagnation and general nastiness has just voted, oh yes, Labour. Again. Yet again the party that has brought nothing but ruination to this part of the UK has been re-elected by all of 30% of the population. They've even had 12 years of a huge Labour majority, which has still given them nothing.
Because it has all served them so well hasn't it. They are the 'working' masses any socialist builds his empire on, they will never see any benefit from it and neither will the rest of us.
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B and D meet up, cue weather
Yes, this weekend the Might D is travelling down to see the Mighty B. I feel I must apologise therefore for the weather, but this is a natural outcome of the drawing together of two vast powers. The atmosphere just cannot handle it.
B&D out for a drink a few months back
Yes, two great minds will be slaughtering their way though the South-East this weekend, fending off rival gods and laying waste to their worlds. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it.
Boatang in his living room dismissing some mortals while waiting for Demetriou to turn up
It should be emotional. I'm welling up already, hence the rain.
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Welcome to Labours heartland, Glasgow East.
School leavers with no qualifications - 300 per cent higher than the Scottish average.
Teenage pregnancies – 60 per cent higher
Deaths from lung cancer – 94 per cent higher
Heart disease – 40 per cent higher
Folk on income support – 130 per cent higher than the national average
Unemployment rate – 140 per cent higher.
You're right, it was a victory for idiocy.
I'm from Glasgow and I know the attitude of which you speak. This is because the majority of us up here in Scotland (especially Glasgow) love the idea of being victimised. It allows us to blame others when things are crap. As a result we are more than happy to pass the blame on to others for our falling education standards, our fat-bastardness, our shitty national football team, and our increasingly waning influence on the international stage. Hell, the best and most noble thing we’ve done all year was release Megrahi, a man who should never have been in jail in the first place, but even still we got our arses kicked for that.
Well, the release of Megrahi was about the only right thing we’ve done for some time now and it goes some way to proving my point. It was the exception to the rule. When you have this victim culture openly operating in a country, the only parties ever likely to receive substantial support will be those on the left who pander to the “it’s no ma fault” consensus. . Oddly enough, even the affluent areas in Glasgow or just outside Glasgow still vote Labour. One MP for such an area is the “Rt Hon” Jim Murphy, although he is infinitely less cunty than the rest of his lot.
We’re a lost cause chaps. We no longer appreciate education, learning, reading, or for that matter, general self-improvement. These are real areas of classic Scottish identity and make-up, rather than ham-fisted Nationalism, deep-fried curly-wurlies or obscure liver diseases.
You may be right Stanley. In all honesty I'm not terribly "up" on the situation outside of Scotland, hence why I neglected to shoot barbs in the direction of you English or Welsh. I think it's safe to say that areas which subscribe to socialism and its associated materials are the areas overwhelmingly likely to consist of sink estates and junkie bastards. Forget the BNP, swine flu, man-made climate change and lazy immigrants, I think it's clear that this continuing belief in socialism, and that socialism can work, is one of the biggest threats this country faces.
I admit to be completely perplexed by the idea that people will continue championing a system of beliefs or a political slant which has failed to benefit them whatsoever. It boggles the mind, so much so, that I fear I’m struggling to actually make sense in this post.
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