One might call it cynical and opportunist if you had written to Keiza two weeks prior about the bikes on trains campaign by SPOKES and not heard so much as an acknowledgement from a personal assistant about the matter in return.
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Kezia D has been at pedal on Parliament on a bike maybe she was round visiting Ian Murray at his newington office and they were overcome with the need to get to a nearby bike station and tanked it round the corner not leaving enough time to phone ahead to say they were coming?
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"maybe she was round visiting Ian Murray"
Nah, that'd just raise difficult issues of hierarchy and protocol. She'll just have been after a nice greeny-business background.
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From chdot's link above:
It doesn't come as a huge surprise that some of the most virulent of the regular EEN commenters are big fans of Nigel.
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Just been to a hustings with Colin 'Foxy' Fox of RISE. He confirms goodwill towards active travel. I invited him to PoP, seems he owns a bicycle.
Rousing talk, but little in the way of information on what he'd actually do if elected.
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Ah IWRATS but this has distracted citizen fox from his normal beat at east end of princes street and now th L Ron Hubbard Dianetics Stress Testers have moved in with their Scientology, bizarrely under a red fold out gazebo thing which is same as one the SW Edinburgh CLP own. Confused u will be in next month's episode of Soap
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You say gembo, I say gazebo
You say L and I say Lafayette
You say Foxy and I say Colin
Foxy! Colin! Gembo! Gazebo!
Let's call the whole thing off.Posted 8 years ago # -
"Rousing talk, but little in the way of information on what he'd actually do if elected."
Similar strategy to the SNP then? Theirs differs only in that there's plenty of rousing talk, then they spent all the money on motorways once elected.
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@crowriver
The Snip will do more of what they've done over the last ten years. None of us are in much doubt as to what that is.
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At IWRATS, I was up the high street looking for fascists to smash but it was all just street performers who are acceptable in my byways. Any way I popped into the whisky shop on the corner of the mound to buy a bottle of Caesar Augustus for Mrs Gembo to have with her curry but I also came out with some El Ron from Guyana. El Dorado brand, muy viejo (well twelve years). Here is a tasting note for this rather nice Rum (you are most welcome to confirm next time you are cycling my way)
Nose - wild acacia honey
Palate - vanilla and tinge of almond
Finish - boozy but nota bene No hangoverPosted 8 years ago # -
Caesar Augustus - the ideal beer for the hybrid rider. I would vote for Foxy if his manifesto was;
RISE - boozy but nota bene No hangover
On second thought, that's actually a bit Il Duce. Politics over rum any time.
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Iwrats, I am reading another book by my current favourite writer Penelope Fitzgerald at the moment ( I mentioned Gate of Angels on here - set in Cambridge 1913 - fair bit about bicycles, large amount of physics and metaphysics, free ghost story added and good suffragette twist).
Anyway the one I am reading just now is called Innocence, set in Florence, and Mezzogiorno Italy (wee bit in uk) 1955, toffs in villas in Florence, creepy opening about midget toffs, then flashback to Antonio gramsci dying in prison. Gramsci, my favourite wee Marxist theorist.
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@gembo
I am flitting between Conor Mark Jameson's Looking for the Goshawk (I am always looking for Goshawks) and Tom Devine's Scotland 1700 to 2000. My pal's mum was his PA for a while. I had no idea that Scotland block-voted Liberal for seventy years. We seem to be given to block-voting. Orange, blue, red and now yellow. Is there a future where we block-vote green? Subject for a novel, maybe.
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William Ewart Gladstone though born in Rodney street in Liverpool (no 62) was Scottish. They say his Midlothian campaign was a template for future campaigns of the modern era
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"Is there a future where we block-vote green? "
One can but hope. By then it will probably be too late...
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It would appear that the Scottish press can't quite seem to figure out how to integrate the Panama Papers into the 'Holyrood 2016 Is All About Income Tax' narrative.
You'd think news of public services being massively swindled by the rich might make us PAYE sheep restive. Labour and the LibDems want us all to pay more but who is going for that while the British Virgin Islands are sitting there stuffed with untaxed British gold? They're on Radio 4 right now, talking about our income tax but not massive tax evasion. It's like Scotland has become some weird parallel universe.
Meanwhile, the Icelanders seem to be a bit less sanguin.
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06/04/2016, 09:43
#Holyrood2016 hustings Thurs 7th, 2pm & 6.45--http://www.spokes.org.uk/2016/03/holyrood-election-5-may-2016/#Hustings
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@Stephan
Been there all weekend too. Sturgeon must resign?
PS Nice use of the 'house that is all roof' as background.
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I know you're all itching to know UKIP's transport policy for Holyrood. To save you feeling dirty, I looked at their manifesto:
- "UKIP aim to make travelling around Scotland more a pleasure than a chore"
To achieve this:ROADS
- speed up implementation of dual carriageways across Scotland
- allow all traffic to use both Forth Road Bridges
- opposed to all road tolls
- speed cameras only to be used on accident blackspots
- average speed cameras only on bridges and in roadworksRAIL
- mumble mumble mumbleFERRIES
- don't privatise CalMacBIKES
must have been a website error; this section was missing from the manifesto. I'm sure they'll correct this quickly.Posted 8 years ago # -
UKIP also planning to allow smoking in pubs again, from the Gruniard,
The 32-page manifesto promises to “push every local authority in Scotland” to offer at least 30 minutes of free parking in city and town centres; to return the drink-driving limit in Scotland to 80mg per 100ml of blood, putting it back in line with the rest of the UK; and to re-introduce grammar schools.
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yup, i read the headlines for that story - smoking ban, drink-drive and city centre parking - and wondered how they could possibly find policies more guaranteed to ensure i wouldn't vote for them.
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EDIT: @WFB beat me to it!
According to beeb, there's also:
-"push every local authority in Scotland" to offer at least 30 minutes free parking in city and town centres, high streets and shopping parades
-put the drink driving limit back to 80mg per 100ml of blood - the same as the rest of the UK
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@SRD: there was no mention of how they number the Star Wars films.
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Free unlimited parking in city centres is quite a good idea. Will stop all traffic completely, because all spaces will be taken by long-term parkers.
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We're all laughing, but there's a good prospect of a small group of UKIP MSPs in May. I like to think they'll insist on drunk-driving their smoke-filled cars into the debating chamber.
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I've often thought it would be fun, for one day, for the Council to announce that there would be no parking enforcement, no bus lane enforcement, and all traffic lights would be turned off.
All things that allegedly cause congestion. Oh the larks there would be watching the true traffic chaos would be hilarious. Cycling would be easy because none of the rest of the traffic would be moving.
Now for UKIP to have that as their actual permanent manifesto....
(as an aside a few weeks back I heard a pub industry guy moaning about the number of pubs that had closed in Scotland, and putting it down to the lower drink drive limit - basically he was saying that we should let people drive while impaired in order to keep pubs open - of course the radio piece didn't then go on to find out how many pubs had opened in the same period to give a more true reflection of the figures).
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