Monday 23 May 2011
Thursday 9 December 2010
anarchy in Lib Dem/Con Gov...
just left the demo and the police are starting their kettling movement.Never the less the atmosphere is /was exciting and very positive.The great thing about this movement is its ability to keep the pressure on the Lib Dems..This is a movement which grow out of a genuine sense of anger. Promises where broken,these where not small promises these were fundamental arguments which the Lib Dems broke.
People in the media cant seem to get their heads around the fact that the Lib Dems used the students to help with its election campaign. what is developing now is a real sense of being used by the political party and then being cast aside.
Its no good arguing about the need to balance the budget,then about progressive politics,then about the need to make hard decisions ,then about the responsibilities of coalition Gov,then about the need to be united,then about the need to protect the most vulnerable...and so it goes on.
This is about a political party which simply lied to young people.Its as simple as that!!
Something new in politics and resistance is developing.
People in the media cant seem to get their heads around the fact that the Lib Dems used the students to help with its election campaign. what is developing now is a real sense of being used by the political party and then being cast aside.
Its no good arguing about the need to balance the budget,then about progressive politics,then about the need to make hard decisions ,then about the responsibilities of coalition Gov,then about the need to be united,then about the need to protect the most vulnerable...and so it goes on.
This is about a political party which simply lied to young people.Its as simple as that!!
Something new in politics and resistance is developing.
Thursday 28 October 2010
CATSCRALDE AND THE CLEARANCES
Now the Conservative Coalition is embarking on Social Engineering by stealth I thought I would quote a couple of observations concerning the Highland Clearances. They speak for themselves.
" How we enjoyed ourselves in those far away days!Those were the happy days and there was neither sin nor sorrow in the world for us.But the clearances came upon us,destroying all.....
turning our joy into misery,gladness into bitterness,our blessing into blasphemy...Oh,dear man ,the tears come on my eyes when I think of all we we suffered, and of the sorrows,hardships and oppressions we came through".....Peigidh nic Cormaig
the words are an English translation.They are more moving in the Gaelic which Peggy MacCormack used. She had been born a MacDonald and she lived at Aird Bhuidhe,the yellow hill above Loch Boisdale.In her old age,many years after the Clearances came upon her,she would still weep if reminded of the time when her chief sold Uist and Benbecula for £96,ooo,when his evicted and unwanted people were driven to the shore of the emigrant the Admiral "Were you to see," said another witness of those days,"were you to see the racing and chasing,you would think you had been transported to the banks of the Gambia on the slave coast of Africa "It was the last great sale of wide lands once held in Arisaig and Moidart, in the westering islands of the Hebrides. By 1838,when Ranald George MacDonald,20th chief of ClanRanald,sold South Uist and Benbucula to that great evictor John Gordon of Cluny,he had received more than £2ooo,ooo for the surrender of his inheritance.
MacDonald had Little recognisable feelings for the people on his lands, being inclined to remove them himself if he thought their black stone cabins spoilt the view from his windows.
" How we enjoyed ourselves in those far away days!Those were the happy days and there was neither sin nor sorrow in the world for us.But the clearances came upon us,destroying all.....
turning our joy into misery,gladness into bitterness,our blessing into blasphemy...Oh,dear man ,the tears come on my eyes when I think of all we we suffered, and of the sorrows,hardships and oppressions we came through".....Peigidh nic Cormaig
the words are an English translation.They are more moving in the Gaelic which Peggy MacCormack used. She had been born a MacDonald and she lived at Aird Bhuidhe,the yellow hill above Loch Boisdale.In her old age,many years after the Clearances came upon her,she would still weep if reminded of the time when her chief sold Uist and Benbecula for £96,ooo,when his evicted and unwanted people were driven to the shore of the emigrant the Admiral "Were you to see," said another witness of those days,"were you to see the racing and chasing,you would think you had been transported to the banks of the Gambia on the slave coast of Africa "It was the last great sale of wide lands once held in Arisaig and Moidart, in the westering islands of the Hebrides. By 1838,when Ranald George MacDonald,20th chief of ClanRanald,sold South Uist and Benbucula to that great evictor John Gordon of Cluny,he had received more than £2ooo,ooo for the surrender of his inheritance.
MacDonald had Little recognisable feelings for the people on his lands, being inclined to remove them himself if he thought their black stone cabins spoilt the view from his windows.
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