Dis-United Kingdom General Election campaign officially kicks off

It's not often you see Ms Green and UKIP Farage both shouting at Millipede at the same time.

Lucky you, Bonny.

In fairness, it hasn't been too bad, and hasn't turned into a bunfight. Milliband is awfully waffly, though, he doesn't make enough of an impression, to me.

Unlike Farage, who always makes an impression - generally a bad one.

...And that's it. IMO, Nicola won it hands down. Milliband messed up rather badly in the course .of it, especially at the end.

I get the distinct impression Labour has written off Scotland.

Oh noes...Wee Willie Hague is polluting my telly.

Shhhhhh Nooooooo!!!!  

It's OK, changed channels quickly.

You are safe.....for now then?   

It's not going to be really safe until three weeks from tonight - round about now, actually, Lily. I'd forgotten how irritating Hague is. And I would still love to know why he really resigned......

Sky News @SkyNews · 3h 3 hours ago
Who won the debate?
Our Twitter poll results:
Sturgeon: 54%
Miliband: 20%
Farage: 17.5%
Wood: 4.5%
Bennett: 4%

I just can't take to Ms Bennett of the Greens, she's not at all like Patrick Harvie. The Greens in general are too left-wing for my taste, but Harvie is interesting and doesn't waffle well-meaning nonsense.

I don't know why he did either, Bonny, except he seems to love being around Angelina Jolie.  

I hope the poll results become reality for you.

Lily, if the poll forecasts are anything like correct, then.....I have NO idea what happens next.

The SNP vote is forecast as being so huge, if they 'only' manage to gain 40 seats out of the 59, London will spin it as a disappointment.



He didn't get much for his money tonight......

Dear me! I have just watched Kay Burley interviewing Nicola Sturgeon - and Ms Burley being totally baffled by the concept of the public making decisions, not politicians issuing edicts.

Clearly a sad victim of Westminster brainwashing.

Speaking of Westminster brainwashing....

http://wingsoverscotland.com/probably-not-a-robbery/



So, let’s just get this one straight, this morning’s English edition of The Sun – two parties with 316 seats are “stealing” an election from two parties with 309 seats?

https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/please-tell-me-this-is-the-last-one/#comments



Anyway, I missed the beginning of the debate, but Nigel Farage still thinks everything is the fault of immigrants. Immigrants and Scottish people. He doesn’t know where Hadrian’s Wall is. It’s not clear why he’s so obsessed with it, seeing as how it’s both entirely within England and was built by Italian immigrants from the EU.

Farage was born on 3 April 1964 at Downe, near Sevenoaks in Kent, to Barbara née Stevens and Guy Justus Oscar Farage.   The Farage name comes from a distant Huguenot ancestor.    One of his great-grandfathers was born to German parents who migrated to London in the 19th century.

Two-faced Fargiebargie is of immigrant stock!    LL  

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2726735/REVEALED-Penniless-German-immigrant-great-great-grandfather-Nigel-Farage-He-famously-no-nonsense-stance-migrants-Ukip-chief-no-idea-ancestor.html

Two-faced Fargiebargie is of immigrant stock

See? It IS all the fault of furriners!

PS - I wish these Unionist buffoons would grasp that HADRIAN'S WALL IS IN ENGLAND. Though the benighted and ignored citizens of Northumberland probably wouldn't mind all that much if the border moved south.....

was built by Italian immigrants from the EU.

I must share this gem from the Sky comments:

P. Edwards 6 hours ago
Leanne Wood of Plaid has a lovely welsh accent "BUT" cannot speak welsh, except for Diolch yn fawr (thank you very much) what a joke- not sure if Nicola Sturgeon speaks Scottish.

Er, what do they imagine Ms Sturgeon is speaking every time she opens her mouth?

I expect she is like most of us, and tones down the Lallans when in mixed company.

Had to google Lallans though. 

Oddly, it's easier to read medieval Scots than it is medieval English, because if you read it out loud, the language hasn't changed so much, though the spelling obviously has.

http://www.lallans.co.uk/


The Scots Leid Associe wis foondit in 1972 an aye ettles tae pit forrit a feckfu case for the Scots language in formal, informal and ilka day uiss. Scots wis aince the state language o Scotland an is aye a grace til oor national leiterature. It lies at the hert o Scotland's heirskep as ane o wir three indigenous leids alang wi Gaelic an Scottish Inglis.

I think that explains it perfectly, really.

If anyone is interested in the intricacies of Scottish marginal voting intentions, which is extremely unlikely:

http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2015/04/latest-scottish-constituency-polling/#more-11326

The short version is that everyone is gubbed except the SNP. Which has given rise to:



Well, at least she hasn't got a crossbow. Yet.

She looks like she is considering it.