Lord Dunderheid

Foreword. I am aware that the term ‘anti-Semitic’ is incorrectly used in what follows - but it has become the accepted term for anti-Jewish. The Jews, originally, were a Semitic people - but so are all the Arab peoples of the Middle East. The term anti-Semitic, therefore, applies to the Palestinians just as much as to the Jews, which makes the use of the term, when applied only to Jews, incorrect. But, as said above, it has become accepted that the term anti-Semitic also means anti-Jewish so I have resorted to using it, if somewhat reluctantly. To be clear, all references to anti-Semitic, in this post, should actually be read as anti-Jewish. I currently find myself rather confused over the position of the Labour party and anti-Semitism. For four years, under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour party was increasingly accused of anti-Semitism - or, at least, failing to even attempt to eradicate anti-Semitism from within it’s ranks. I don’t know if this was true or not as I did not read more than a...

While we are talking about ‘flapping lips’ (see my previous post re Christine Jardine) I see George Galloway has been flapping his, again!I It seems he is willing to work with the Tories to stop the SNP. Now, I can accept a supporter of the Union trying to stop the SNP, but for a far left socialist like Galloway to advocate working with the Tories is simply beyond belief. He would, it seems, rather see the people of Scotland under Tory rule than see a left of centre, independent Scotland. This says volumes about Galloway and I find his position nothing short of staggering and despicable. Any respect I once had for Galloway’s socialist credentials have been totally destroyed (this, of course, assuming he actually said what it’s reported he said). While on the subject of socialist dinosaurs I also see that Brian Wilson continues to spout his bile via articles in, at least, The Scotsman. Wilson, like Galloway, is one of the many aging Scottish socialists who finds it impossible to credit ...

I see that Christine Jardine, the Lib-Dem MP for Edinburgh West, has been flapping her lips again! This is something she frequently does. Firstly, in a piece for The Scotsman and secondly in an interview with Mike Graham on talkRADIO. In The Scotsman piece she starts by having a go at the SNP in Westminster wasting time on pushing pointless questions about a second Scottish independence referendum when they should have been concentrating on more important questions. Well, in case Ms Jardine has not noticed, it’s currently a waste of time asking any questions in Westminster due to Johnson’s huge majority - a situation brought about in no small part by the Lib-Dem’s failure to do better at the last general election (and this assisted by the Labour Party’s failure to do like wise). Boris Johnson is simply able to do whatever he wants - and he does. I would also argue that fighting for Scotland’s democratic right is not a waste of time and needs to be argued for as much and as often as pos...