tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586389062182728098.post363126999688407612..comments2024-03-27T08:15:17.334-07:00Comments on ianssmart: A change of airianssmarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07863217818794644141noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586389062182728098.post-44617832954091530022014-07-26T08:16:29.004-07:002014-07-26T08:16:29.004-07:00Dearie me. One minute you are blogging about havin...Dearie me. One minute you are blogging about having a bit on the side, Pakis and Poles, and now you have really lost the plot.<br />There will be no referendum anyway.<br />Jutemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11061671774494923407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586389062182728098.post-44203168865752651062014-07-26T01:37:54.836-07:002014-07-26T01:37:54.836-07:00Ian: 'For the victors it will certainly be amu...Ian: 'For the victors it will certainly be amusing to watch.'<br /><br />Well I can't say I find it amusing though the apocalyptic language of such as Warner deserves all it gets in way of mockery. Bill Paterson has a wise and witty piece in the Scottish Review at the moment on the Yes Luvvie hegemony and what it implies about modern Scotland.<br /><br />Bill also quotes Billy Connolly's wise words about the one sure thing about the Rerferendum - we will get the Scotland we deserve. <br />Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586389062182728098.post-66937855724687650482014-07-21T14:08:26.094-07:002014-07-21T14:08:26.094-07:00Saw this comment in the Guardian at the weekend. S...Saw this comment in the Guardian at the weekend. Seems you were closer to the mark than I realised: 'If the No vote prevails, I'll start wearing a badge that says "Don't blame me - I voted Yes".'<br /><br />Amazing that, knowing they will lose the vote, some Nats have really gone down the "blaming the voters" route.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03531701900378718072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586389062182728098.post-27914076224601157772014-07-21T08:57:44.646-07:002014-07-21T08:57:44.646-07:00Warner writes as if the death of the modern kailya...Warner writes as if the death of the modern kailyaird would be a bad thing.Graham Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08917465083572087287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586389062182728098.post-55580704734916519822014-07-19T05:02:22.711-07:002014-07-19T05:02:22.711-07:00The same tone is on display from some contributors...The same tone is on display from some contributors to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/19/scottish-referendum-independence-uk-how-writers-vote?CMP=twt_gu" rel="nofollow">this</a> round-up of writers in the Guardian. Alan Warner is particularly eloquent:<br /><br /><i>Think on this: if there was a no vote, has there ever been another European country where a "progressive" – and to use two pompous words – "intelligentsia", has united in a liberation movement, yet the majority has finally voted against the aspirations of this movement? A no vote will create a profound and strange schism between the voters of Scotland and its literature; a new convulsion. It will be the death knell for the whole Scottish literature "project" – a crushing denial of an identity that writers have been meticulously accumulating, trying to maintain and refine. With a no vote, a savage division will suddenly exist between the values of most of our writing – past and present – and the majority of our people.</i><br /><br />It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03493440163559858462noreply@blogger.com