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05 Jun

Letter RE: Freedom Flotilla – Jim McGovern

Reply to Freedom Flotilla letter Jim McGovern – Labour First reply from Jim McGovern’s secretary Thank you for your message which I shall pass to Jim McGovern. Jane O’Neill Bookmark It Hide Sites

05 Jun

Letter to Representatives RE Attack on Freedom Flotilla

I wrote the following letter to all my representatives yesterday and look forward to some interesting responses. MPs: Jim McGovern (Labour) MSPs: Joe FitzPatrick (SNP), Alison McInnes (Liberal Democrat), Richard Baker (Labour), Alex Johnstone (Conservative), Nanette Milne (Conservative), Marlyn Glen (Labour), Nigel Don (SNP), Maureen Watt (SNP) MEPs : Alyn Smith (SNP), David Martin (Labour), [...]

05 May

Dundee West General Election

So the election is tomorrow, what’s been happenning in Dundee West. Well as of now my only contact has been 3 hand delivered Lib Dem leaftets and a personally addressed SNP letter. The three Lib Dem leaflets all contained their usual bunch of lies, damn lies and irelevent and massaged statistics. A letter from the [...]

17 Apr

Dundee West voters choice

You can tell it’s an election because Labour and the SNP showed their face in the city centre today, so probably time for an info post. Well, unless there are any last minute changes or anyone withdrawing at the last minute (ooh err missus) the line up for the election in Dundee West looks like: [...]

15 Apr

Digital Economy Bill

I hadn’t noticed But Stewart Hosie (MP for Dundee East) voted for the Digital Economy Bill meaning that 100% of the SNP MPs who voted supported it. I have written to Jim Barrie (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the SNP in Dundee West) asking for his view on the bill (email sent on 15th April). Jim [...]

07 Apr

Stuff Jim McGovern

Last night was the final straw. Having spent several years as a member of the payroll vote he eventually started being a constituency MP. He voted for authoritarian measures like storing massive amount of information on citizens and then tried to block information about where he has been on taxpayers money using privacy as his [...]

14 Feb

Attack of the virgins from mums basement

Friday was a special occassion. The 200th episode of the excellent Boagworld podcast. To celebrate, rather than record the usual show of about 1hour the hosts organised a 12 hour spectacular pulling together some of the brightest and most interesting people in the web industry. There were experts on coding and design, CSS and CMS, [...]

03 Feb

Terminal Illness Isn’t A Health Issue

In parliament today a bill on euthanasia for those with terminal illnesses was punted to a sub-committee. This is probably what you would expect in a parliament. What was strange was it had been expected to be handed to the Health committee. According to party hacks euthanasia doesn’t fall under the remit of health. The [...]

23 Jan

Church Attendance figures

I was sure I had previously written about it here but apparantly not. Before Christmas there was a stooshy in the Courier due to Dundee holding a Winters Light Festival which included turning on the Christmas tree lights among other things as part of the Homecoming Celebration. Rants and raves from the religious and righteous [...]

07 Jan

Chaos as frozen water plummets from the sky!!

Sitting in the pub last night one of the 24 hour News programs was on giving us breaking news such as roads frozen and temperature below freezing. How this was breaking news baffled me. Then after the news finished there was the weather. The newspaper headline section was hilarious with their shocking headlines and attacks [...]

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