OK, so it was more the “Unionist” part of “Conservative and Unionist”, but in the 1955 general election they got more than half of the votes and won seats right across Scotland, yet by 1997 they’d been totally wiped out.

I’m not saying that the Tory party invariably has politicians who are more capable, just that they by vacating the field they left Labour, and the left in general, to hold sway with no effective opposition.

I have no time for the minority of Tories who now say, in essence: “The Scots won’t vote for us any more, so let’s dump them”.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00jn1fs

The Scots as a people are absolutely our neighbours. Unfortunately they have allowed themselves to end up being governed by politicians entirely incapable of the job. There are all sorts of reason for this that merit a separate and far longer post, but part of the solution to the current crisis is for the Scots to recognise this and elect a government that can govern simply, efficiently and low cost. Acting as responsible friends of ours they need to change the high spending governemnt, then we can move forward together.

Reply: I am not anti Scottish, and do n ot target the Scots. Any Scot who is a Unionist who wants his or her country to be better run should realise that only the Conservatives can marshall the numbers to replace the present government.

An honest, just, fair society. Where there is freedom, responsiblity, and achievement. I don’t take sides in a class war because it is obvious that every society since the dawn of time has had its ‘class system’. Leaders are needed, whilst there will always be those who are lazy, selfish and don’t want to contribute.

What I care about is helping people make the best of themselves, of finding their talents and fulfilling ther potential. I care about a society where people help each other, that is what patriotism is all about to me.

Socialist economics have never worked; socialist philisophy on equality of outcome for all, is unfair to all – it means that few achieve their potential.

I want my country to change for the better; not to swerve in radical directions led by tyrants. I want people to be able to debate and discuss the future based on a first class education on history and ideas; not ruled by emotional sounbites because they have been taught to parrot the base mantras of ‘the left’.

Are you really suggesting that that rag bag of ideas that marched in London yesteday was a triumph for our civilization? They didn’t understand the benefits of free markets, they didn’t understand the nonsense pumped into them about climate change, and they have been provoked into a dangerous hatred of bankers – unwarented by the vast majority of people in Financial Services. To me they reminded me of the orcs let loose by Sauron.

But you are right about one thing; it is time all ‘right thinking’ people, started reclaiming our society, and slowly and surely pulling it back from the slough of socialist despond.

Unfortunatly yes, Mr Draper is what socialists become if they dont turn right.

Reply: I think it was Nolan on Five Live. It was at 11.20 pm on Saturday night – I remember that bit as it was such an anti social time.

The current regulatory system as the spawn of the most useless Chancellor and PM ever is bound to be useless.

Oh yes, and the fact that the FSA describes itself as the ‘independent’ regulator financial services is the final insult. It is a government quango. if something looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, whatever you might call it, it is an effing duck.

Let me be honest. I support the little man against the big. I passionately want poor people to have an excellent education. I get furious at the shambles within hospitals of the NHS. I am quite prepared for my country to change, if necessary, quite radically.
I read the Spectator, but find that the most trenchant articles so very often come from people who have grown out of Socialism, but who retain the acerbic realism of their left wing roots. The left is witty very often. And it hits the point too.
And who is actually on the streets this week? Not the right, who even messed up their protest about hunting, or when half a million people converging on London for the Countryside alliance at the beginning of the Tony Years were completely bypassed.

So is Derek Draper really all they have to offer? I keep hearing about the intelligence of Mr and Mrs Balls. So where are they? Why are Labour playing their third eleven? Is that really all they have to offer in perhaps the greatest crisis since 1945?

Surely this is all about frightening us all into the belief we need Gordon to save us (we don’t) and scaring the Scots off voting SNP, because only “their Labour man in Westminster” can be guaranteed to soak the Tory English South of taxes to bail out failed Scottish financial institutions.

To think once we believed the Scots were “canny about their bawbies” How different it looks now.