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Lesley Riddoch: Time for government to redirect history, not pander to the voters

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Published Date: 24 November 2008
ALISTAIR Darling will get to his feet in the Commons today to deliver the annual Pre-Budget Report. It's a bland title for an event that should redirect the course of British history.
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  • Last Updated: 23 November 2008 9:10 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Lesley Riddoch
 
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Darien,

Panama 24/11/2008 10:22:15
I could imagine Scots throwing eggs at Holyrood, but that would not happen at Westminster - people south of the border hold that place in awe, and the idiots in it. That's maybe one difference between Scots and our neighbours over the border. But as the Icelandic girls said on your show last Friday, Scots are lacking in backbone. There is no excuse to insult our neighbours, as Darling and Brown did with Iceland and the other nations and peoples around Scotland, just to score political points here. That is maybe another difference between the SNP and the NewLab (or any other British nationalist party's); while Scots (or at least thinking Scots) and other nations want to get a foot on the global carousel, the British approach is to kick them all off it and to be the dominant pony. Unfortunately Britain is a one trick pony whose trick has been exposed for what it is, all smoke and mirrors.

 

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