Good news/bad news
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f4f3This week's weight loss has stuck over the weekend, and I'm lighter now than I've been for a year. Go me.
The Cold is back, and I have leaden limbs and am breathing through cotton wool. Go away.
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Labour held my old Westminster constituency - very convincingly. They polled about 60% of the votes, SNP about 20%, Tories 5% (just holding their deposit) BNP just under 5% (losing their deposit, and showing no signs of a surge, in the Glasgow constituency with most asylum seekers and the poorest white working class). The rest of the vote was shared between the SDP (sixth) and various other socialist and celebrity candidates.
The links between the BNP/English Defence League and protestant extremists came out again this weekend in a rally in Glasgow. I say a rally, but the thirty or forty of them were penned in a pub before being bussed to the city limits (actually, to Paisley Road West, which is more like the Outer Limits than the city limits). There's lots of stuff here about my formative influences, from why I'm a socialist to why I can't stand the Union Jack (the two are related).
The Cold is back, and I have leaden limbs and am breathing through cotton wool. Go away.
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Labour held my old Westminster constituency - very convincingly. They polled about 60% of the votes, SNP about 20%, Tories 5% (just holding their deposit) BNP just under 5% (losing their deposit, and showing no signs of a surge, in the Glasgow constituency with most asylum seekers and the poorest white working class). The rest of the vote was shared between the SDP (sixth) and various other socialist and celebrity candidates.
The links between the BNP/English Defence League and protestant extremists came out again this weekend in a rally in Glasgow. I say a rally, but the thirty or forty of them were penned in a pub before being bussed to the city limits (actually, to Paisley Road West, which is more like the Outer Limits than the city limits). There's lots of stuff here about my formative influences, from why I'm a socialist to why I can't stand the Union Jack (the two are related).
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Date: 2009-11-17 07:27 am (UTC)Still think racism towards the English is at least on a par with sectarianism it terms of pervasive acceptance. Whilst homophobia and anti-intellectualism are vile prejudices, I don't think they count as racism.
I'm walking away now as as you have stated there's no way we're going to reach any sort of accord here.