Peter Dow

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

cool... it's still christmas... no arguing.. sorry

even if I am at work

still....

[Uncle Liam]

I'm amazed the public tolerate them.

Actually, no I'm not. You don't see the press attacking the Royals for being benefit scroungers, do you?

We're living in a seriously skewed society.

[feral chile]

I put it to my friend the other day that bearing in mind the popularity of the royals at the moment, and the unpopularity of politicians, that if there was a referendum on whether to 'repatriate' power back to the Royal family, specifically to William and Kate, that the result might be closer than people think.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

It's corny but rings true to a worrying extent when you think of the line ' there's only one person ever enter parliament with honest intentions and that was Guy Fawkes'. I can't abide politicians of any description though, so maybe the loathing is not as universal as I'd like to believe.

I've been listening to some economic forecasts from big players across the pond. If they are right then we haven't even scrapped the barrel of total meltdown. If that happens I don't think any royalty will be sitting that happy knowing their position is safe. I do hope they are wrong for everyone's sake. Sorry to sound doom and glummy it's just that these people kind of have their finger on the pulse. Then again they could be forcing a further down turn in order to benefit from it. Who knows what's going on!

[Uncle Liam]

1000 responses. FTW.

[Peter Dow]

The Sun: Body only yards from Royal Christmas shoot

A WOMAN found murdered on the Queen's Sandringham estate lay yards from where the Royals held their Christmas shoot, it emerged yesterday.

Cops say the young female had been there between one and four months — meaning the hunting party would have unwittingly stood close to her.

The Queen and Prince Philip, still at Sandringham, have asked to be kept updated on the inquiry — as forensic officers combed parts of the 20,000-acre grounds near King's Lynn, Norfolk, yesterday.

Police are awaiting a post-mortem but ruled out a gun or knife attack

A spokesman said: "There is no evidence of accidental injury or damage due to firearms or a bladed weapon."

A dog-walker found the remains in private woods crossed by public paths at 4pm on New Year's Day.

It is close to where the Queen breeds racehorses and yards from a copse where Philip, 90, usually holds festive pheasant shoots — although he missed this year's because of his heart scare.

One local said: "He loves shooting in the field because it's a brilliant spot to bag birds.

"It's incredible to think the Royals were just yards from where this poor woman was lying dead."

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

lol

[5co77ie]

[Peter Dow]

My profile video has now reached 10,000 views on YouTube.So to celebrate this milestone, I have produced a new music video as follows.

Scots Wha Hae viewed Peter Dow's profile video

The video used is extracts from my profile video named "Scottish republican socialist Peter Dow, author and protester" and "The Right To Freedom of Assembly" directed by David Graham Scott.

10,000 + views!

Edited January 9, 2012 by Peter Dow

[Uncle Liam]

At least he's keeping it in one thread folks...

[Kyelo]

I forgot about this thread...I'm hung over and this brightened me up lol

[feral chile]

At least he's keeping it in one thread folks...

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I've just watched Peter Dow's 'Scots Wha Hae viewed Peter Dow's profile video' and found it quite interesting. I've not read huge potions of this thread so what follows may be laughable - basically on the strength of the video I found him to be less doolaly than I had anticipated and actually admire the fact that he has the courage of his convictions (even if they are considered skewed by most here).

[nightcrawler13]

i have 350,000 views of me dancing in my kitchen, i think shall celebrate with 350 music videos of me dancing in my kitchen?

imagine if you used the amount of time and passion you have into sometime beneficial like youth projects for the 25% of Scottish children who live under the poverty line instead of whinging about the queen

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

As Voltaire once said " "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". I think the same applies with Peter Dow. Although he would probably disagree, he's emblematic of a degree of free speech in this country which others can only dream of.

[Gre]

Just a bit of advance warning - Condi is in the episode of 30 Rock showing this Friday. Absorbants at the ready.

[kaosmark2]

As Voltaire once said " "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". I think the same applies with Peter Dow. Although he would probably disagree, he's emblematic of a degree of free speech in this country which others can only dream of.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

He advocates oppressing the BNP and banning them from spouting their idiocy, which rather conflicts with free speech principles.

[kaosmark2]

Hello kaosmark2

I did say that I hadn't read much of the thread and nor am I going to (it looks a bit too dull for me). What I was referring to was his right to spout out that he objects to BNP and even wants their free speech taken away. I was not saying that I would defend what he says or even act upon it as a reasoned way of thinking.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Sure. Completely understandable.

But yeah, I know what you mean. There are plenty of other countries where he wouldn't be able to slander the official head of state to the degree he does Liz Windsor.

[Peter Dow]

David Cameron trading with Saudi sponsors of terrorism

BBC: David Cameron in talks with Saudi king

David Cameron has visited Saudi Arabia, for the first time as prime minister.

He met King Abdullah and Crown Prince Nayef in Riyadh for talks which No 10 hopes will "broaden and deepen" the UK-Saudi relationship.

One of the main aims of the trip was to establish a personal relationship between the PM and the Saudi king.

Saudi Arabia is the UK's largest trading partner in the Middle East with annual trade worth £15bn a year. It has £62bn invested in the UK economy.

Mr Cameron is travelling without UK reporters - which is unusual on a foreign trip - but Foreign Secretary William Hague insisted the visit was "not furtive".

Arms sales

Both the UK and Saudi Arabia are hoping to forge a new strategic partnership in energy, business and security.

A Saudi official told the BBC the leaders would discuss sales of the latest technology and weaponry, and making Britain a major part of a massive Saudi military expansion.

On Thursday, MPs on the committee on arms export controls published questions it had submitted to the government about British arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

The committee asked why, when there was unrest in the country in 2011, licences for a range of equipment had not been revoked.

"Why does the UK believe that the assurances relating to end-use will not be breached?," the committee asked.

Speaking to the BBC, Labour MP Katy Clark, a member of the committee, said Saudi Arabia had an "appalling human rights record" which the prime minister could not ignore.

"I think we need to ask some serious questions of David Cameron about what he is doing in our name in Saudi Arabia," she said.

"Is he raising issues about individual abuses of human rights or is he promoting the sale of arms? And if it's arms, what kind of arms and what are they going to be used for?"

[Kyelo]

David Cameron trading with Saudi sponsors of terrorism

I would say maximum publicity is appropriate for Cameron's backstabbing of British soldiers by dealing with those who sponsor the Taliban terrorist enemy.

[Peter Dow]

John McDonnell wrong. Police ARE to blame for weak economy

BBC: Unions criticise Ed Balls's pay freeze comments

I don't have an exact quote of what he said but the Labour MP John McDonnell was speaking on BBC News today in response to what Ed Balls was saying about he could not guarantee to reverse cuts in pay when and if he was Chancellor in a UK Labour government or something.

John McDonnell was complaining that ordinary people who were not responsible were being asked to pay a price for an economic failure they did not cause.

I agreed with some of what John McDonnell was saying but when he was listing innocent ordinary workers he included in his list of innocents "the police"!

Sorry but the police are never innocent and they have to take a share of the blame for economic failure in my opinion.

I think John McDonnell is wrong to list the police as somehow innocent in terms of economic failure of the country, whether that country be Britain or Scotland.

I would say the police must take a large share of the blame because as the enforcers for the state they maintain the status quo, the mismanagement of the key economic institutions, such as universities.

So for example, if one of the Queen's stupid judges orders a talented scientist banned from a university or gagged from criticising a university (and such an order is highly likely to damage the economy) the police are the ones who are standing by to enforce that ban by locking up any person who defies a judge's court order.

So the police by assisting the judge to destroy academic freedom and civil liberties are assisting the judge to mismanage the economy are so the police as well as the judges are very much to blame.

The police and the courts are the major cause of a weaker Scottish and British economy than we otherwise could have.

I think paying the current police and judges who are allowed by the head of the state, the Queen, to do just about anything, no matter how foolish, no matter how much that wrecks the economy, paying them at all, for all the damage they do to people's lives and to the economy, is foolish. They should not be paid at all. They should be paying us back for all the damage they have cost.

We need huge change of the police and the courts which only a republican revolution and a good elected president could bring about before we could have police and courts that should be paid anything at all.

John McDonnell doesn't seem to have any idea how to strengthen the overall economy. He seems content with a weak economy and he just wants all workers, those doing a good job and those doing a bad job, paid more.

[Uncle Liam]

I would say the police must take a large share of the blame because as the enforcers for the state they maintain the status quo, the mismanagement of the key economic institutions, such as universities.

So for example, if one of the Queen's stupid judges orders a talented scientist banned from a university or gagged from criticising a university (and such an order is highly likely to damage the economy) the police are the ones who are standing by to enforce that ban by locking up any person who defies a judge's court order.

[Peter Dow]

Satirical take on the desperate efforts of United Kingdom supporters proposing an devolution-maximum or devolution-plus alternative to the SNP's preferred option for a Scottish parliament approved referendum of the people of Scotland in support of an independent Queen's state of Scotland.

Either way the referendum will be rigged to keep the Queen and deny real Scottish national independence.