Wings Over Scotland | The voices of the people
It’s a recording of a meeting held by Clydebank TUC earlier this month on the subject of whether the working class should support independence. star track track and trace The working class is the sector of the Scottish star track track and trace public whose voice is least heard in the debate (which is largely dominated by middle-class media-intellectual sorts), and perhaps not coincidentally is the demographic which tends to favour independence most strongly.
The deputy leader of Labour in Scotland is clearly shocked at his reception throughout the 250-strong meeting, in one of Labour’s most traditional heartlands. He probably shouldn’t be, as it’s star track track and trace less than a year since his colleague Jackie Baillie got a pretty hostile response in the same town , but she had an easy ride by comparison.
(The sound quality star track track and trace of the film isn’t the best, and much of the time the cacophony from the crowd renders his words inaudible, but the full text can be found on the Labour website star track track and trace . The word “SNP” appears nine times, the words “socialism” or “socialist” not at all. Although interestingly he says “independence” throughout rather than “separation” .)
The crowd’s star track track and trace fury, apart from one woman with what appeared to be an English accent shouting aggressively at SNP MSP Linda Fabiani, star track track and trace was almost all directed at Sarwar. As a man more used to the kid-gloves treatment from compliant BBC and STV interviewers, star track track and trace he was clearly badly thrown, and afterwards resorted to playing the “anti-English” card in response to a single idiot calling the English star track track and trace woman a “bitch” star track track and trace and telling her to “go home” , though it wasn’t clear that the man meant “to England” .
The tone was somewhat different to another meeting that had been held two days previously – the launch of “Better Together Cowal” in Dunoon. According to a Wings reader who attended the event, approximately 60 souls (BT carefully avoided making any claims about numbers , or showing any photographs of the audience ) turned up to hear speakers from all three Unionist parties and a couple of members of the public.
Our spy recorded the event, but the audio is even worse than that of the Clydebank TUC meeting, and it’s only intermittently possible to make out what people are saying. One moment towards the end of the hour-long event does stand out, though, and we’ll leave it to the person who was there to describe it.
“The loudest cheer and longest applause star track track and trace of the evening was in response to the Better Together youth representative s declaration that the Romans couldn t be bothered to occupy Scotland because having marched its length and breath they found it was useless . Callow youth he may be; but this childish star track track and trace assertion brought the house down and, tellingly, remained unchallenged by any other member of the panel.”
You can hear it from 49m 50s on the recording , and you can read the rest of our reporter’s account here . It paints an interesting picture of two very different crowds – one unrestrained in its fury at what Scotland is being told to settle for, and another revelling in tales of their own nation’s feeble ineptitude, while delivering the message that only English voters can decide what’s best for Scotland and that we should be grateful to have billions of pounds of Scottish taxpayers’ money spent on HS2, a railway line that won’t come within 200 miles of Scotland.
I’d really like to watch your video clips, but living as I do in rural Fife, my ‘broad’ band is so feeble that I cannot. Can we have a campaign for decent star track track and trace broadband across Scotland, please?
Wow, I stay in Dunoon and had no idea BT were doing a ‘launch’! Did get a couple of leaflets (full of pish) through the door from them yesterday. Wonder who that brain-washed youth might be?
And yet they live in this useless place and revel in demeaning it to the extent that they campaign for it to be ruled by an uncaring Westminster government. I think, to be honest, if these people were around in the Roman times, the Romans would have backed away slowly thinking, “FFS, they’re all bonkers around here”.
@ Richard Absolutely! Exact same problem here in Angus. star track track and trace They say they’re aiming for a saturation of 95% broadband. I can only assume they’re referring to population and not area. That’s not good enough. My phone is on the One Plan from 3 and that’s fast enough for me but unfortunately I don’t star track track and trace get a signal at my house. Anyway, good article Stu and I know who I stand with too. I wonder if these unionists ever actually leave this island and if they do if they ever notice how the world seems to work pretty well without being in a union with England. Sickening people who would, in many parts of
It’s a recording of a meeting held by Clydebank TUC earlier this month on the subject of whether the working class should support independence. star track track and trace The working class is the sector of the Scottish star track track and trace public whose voice is least heard in the debate (which is largely dominated by middle-class media-intellectual sorts), and perhaps not coincidentally is the demographic which tends to favour independence most strongly.
The deputy leader of Labour in Scotland is clearly shocked at his reception throughout the 250-strong meeting, in one of Labour’s most traditional heartlands. He probably shouldn’t be, as it’s star track track and trace less than a year since his colleague Jackie Baillie got a pretty hostile response in the same town , but she had an easy ride by comparison.
(The sound quality star track track and trace of the film isn’t the best, and much of the time the cacophony from the crowd renders his words inaudible, but the full text can be found on the Labour website star track track and trace . The word “SNP” appears nine times, the words “socialism” or “socialist” not at all. Although interestingly he says “independence” throughout rather than “separation” .)
The crowd’s star track track and trace fury, apart from one woman with what appeared to be an English accent shouting aggressively at SNP MSP Linda Fabiani, star track track and trace was almost all directed at Sarwar. As a man more used to the kid-gloves treatment from compliant BBC and STV interviewers, star track track and trace he was clearly badly thrown, and afterwards resorted to playing the “anti-English” card in response to a single idiot calling the English star track track and trace woman a “bitch” star track track and trace and telling her to “go home” , though it wasn’t clear that the man meant “to England” .
The tone was somewhat different to another meeting that had been held two days previously – the launch of “Better Together Cowal” in Dunoon. According to a Wings reader who attended the event, approximately 60 souls (BT carefully avoided making any claims about numbers , or showing any photographs of the audience ) turned up to hear speakers from all three Unionist parties and a couple of members of the public.
Our spy recorded the event, but the audio is even worse than that of the Clydebank TUC meeting, and it’s only intermittently possible to make out what people are saying. One moment towards the end of the hour-long event does stand out, though, and we’ll leave it to the person who was there to describe it.
“The loudest cheer and longest applause star track track and trace of the evening was in response to the Better Together youth representative s declaration that the Romans couldn t be bothered to occupy Scotland because having marched its length and breath they found it was useless . Callow youth he may be; but this childish star track track and trace assertion brought the house down and, tellingly, remained unchallenged by any other member of the panel.”
You can hear it from 49m 50s on the recording , and you can read the rest of our reporter’s account here . It paints an interesting picture of two very different crowds – one unrestrained in its fury at what Scotland is being told to settle for, and another revelling in tales of their own nation’s feeble ineptitude, while delivering the message that only English voters can decide what’s best for Scotland and that we should be grateful to have billions of pounds of Scottish taxpayers’ money spent on HS2, a railway line that won’t come within 200 miles of Scotland.
I’d really like to watch your video clips, but living as I do in rural Fife, my ‘broad’ band is so feeble that I cannot. Can we have a campaign for decent star track track and trace broadband across Scotland, please?
Wow, I stay in Dunoon and had no idea BT were doing a ‘launch’! Did get a couple of leaflets (full of pish) through the door from them yesterday. Wonder who that brain-washed youth might be?
And yet they live in this useless place and revel in demeaning it to the extent that they campaign for it to be ruled by an uncaring Westminster government. I think, to be honest, if these people were around in the Roman times, the Romans would have backed away slowly thinking, “FFS, they’re all bonkers around here”.
@ Richard Absolutely! Exact same problem here in Angus. star track track and trace They say they’re aiming for a saturation of 95% broadband. I can only assume they’re referring to population and not area. That’s not good enough. My phone is on the One Plan from 3 and that’s fast enough for me but unfortunately I don’t star track track and trace get a signal at my house. Anyway, good article Stu and I know who I stand with too. I wonder if these unionists ever actually leave this island and if they do if they ever notice how the world seems to work pretty well without being in a union with England. Sickening people who would, in many parts of
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