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Listed below are comments made by Lily_Hammer between Tuesday, 16th June 2009 and Wednesday, 19th August 2009.

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Deal or no deal? 11:18am on 19 Aug 2009 #20 northhighlander

"(...) 4 or 5 days should be enough to deliberate in a thoughtful way."

Megrahi can only be sent home under a prisoner-transfer agreement when there are no legal matters involving him outstanding, and there is still an appeal by the authorities against the leniency of his sentence to be resolved.

This issue is in principle expected to be decided at a court hearing scheduled for September 8th. If anyone is "dithering", therefore, it is not the Justice Secretary.
The Queen 09:31am on 02 Jul 2009 #49 NeilSmall_147

There are not different strands of opinion on various matters in other political parties?
Not impossible - but difficult 11:49pm on 17 Jun 2009 #177 derekbarker

Operating within existing constitutional arrangements, whether they approve of them or not, is what political parties do which declare themselves to be dedicated to achieving constitutional change by constitutional means as a matter of principle. (Sorry to use a word there, 'principle', with which you may not be familiar.) As the SNP declares itself to be dedicated to achieving constitutional change by constitutional means, representation in the legislative assembly where power over the constitution lies would appear to be perfectly logical.

Within the existing UK constitution the UK parliament ultimately holds all the levers of power (over all matters whether defined as reserved or devolved). Therefore, there would seem to be not very much to be gained by attempting to ignore it. It is obvious that the unionist parties would prefer there to be no SNP presence in the UK parliament for numerous reasons, but, you know, the SNP is not really in business to make unionist parties happy, as you must have noticed.

If you ever start coming up with logic, Derek, as opposed to this puerile sophistry that you keep spewing out all day long, I'll consider taking you seriously. Until then forget it. Your vocabulary needs work too. Only trying to be helpful.

Get yourself a good night's sleep now. Tomorrow is a special day. Speaker Martin is supposed to be letting all the cats out of the bag before disappearing over the horizon.
A political career shelved 5:05pm on 17 Jun 2009 #29 gedguy2

No, he's from another planet.
Not impossible - but difficult 4:37pm on 17 Jun 2009 #173 derekbarker

You are forgetting that earlier Irish Home Rulers sent MPs to the UK parliament. This did not mean that they had no intention of establishing an Irish state, as the existence of the Irish Republic testifies.

The SNP clearly believes in reducing the number of MPs at Westminster by 59. The fact that it adopts an approach to this which is different from that of another contemporary party which would prefer to have no representation at Westminster does not, of course, represent a declaration of faith in the institution itself. You need to take a course in logic, if you think you are up to it.

Now stop hiding in here and face up to the Labour Party's shelving embarrassment in the next thread.
A political career shelved 4:04pm on 17 Jun 2009 #9 bighullabaloo

7. The fuddle = "Okay, I'm a thief! But I'm also a numptie!"
Not impossible - but difficult 3:58pm on 17 Jun 2009 #166 derekbarker

"(...) why are they at Westminster in the first place?"

To represent their constituents and obtain independence, of course.

Admit it. You are just wittering on witlessly here so as to avoid the new thread on shelving. Go on, enter the fray, even if you will get slaughtered.

Remember to put the lights out when you leave.
Not impossible - but difficult 3:32pm on 17 Jun 2009 #165 derekbarker

Let the people decide. Hey! That's my line!

Can we shelve this now and get on to the shelving in the next thread? Another embarrassing topic for Labour.
Not impossible - but difficult 00:19am on 17 Jun 2009 "Another day and things move on apace."

Looks like a stressful day for some tomorrow, as it seems that the office of Speaker Michael Martin has confirmed that details of all MPs' expenses will be released officially then on the UK parliament's website.
Not impossible - but difficult 5:54pm on 16 Jun 2009 Unionist politicians profess to be democrats but refuse outright to submit their constitutional proposals to the people in a referendum in case the people give the wrong answer!

He's got you banged to rights, chaps. Get out of that!

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