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Listed below are comments made by TimothyFClarke between Friday, 30th January 2009 and Thursday, 16th July 2009.

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• Green shoots and wind turbines 2:26pm on 16 Jul 2009 60
  
  On the last note I made about Labour wishing to talk about the future so we stop discussing the present, as if they wish to prove it I just this minute received a response to the petition demanding an election now:
  
  Thank you for your e-petition.
  
  As you may be aware, a general election must be called before June 2010, when the whole country will have an opportunity to express their point of view.
  
  In the meantime, you may be interested to read the Governments recently published plan, Building Britains Future. The document sets out a radical vision for a fairer, stronger and more prosperous society for all.
  
  You can read the proposals, and take part in the debate about the countrys future, at the following website
  
  http://www.hmg.gov.uk/buildingbritainsfuture
  
• Green shoots and wind turbines 2:19pm on 16 Jul 2009 56 superAngry
  
  The MP is wrong, there are no other such factories in Scotland. I'm sure between us we could name more than a few MPs who are often wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if the MP who told you this was Nadine Doris.
  
  It might not suit conspiracy theorists such as yourself, but Brown refuses to say he's a Scot (he's North British apparently); his accent you hear isn't a Fife accent, it's the accent of a Scot trying (badly) to sound more English; Labour is a party who talk about appealing to "middle England" (whatever that may be); they wish to create and invest in a Green Capital in Cornwall when Scotland is far more advanced in and has a greater potential in green energy; who have taken so much money from Scotland and elsewhere in the UK for the Olympics; and who wish to take software jobs from Dundee, where Scotland has invested much time and capital to create them, to create a digital future in Manchester.
  
  Labour isn't an anti-Scotland or anti-England party. It isn't about setting one nation against another. And Brown's cabinet is statistically more an Unelected Cabal than it is a Scottish Cabal. It's about an ineffective government with no direction, no sense of purpose or ideals, too busy trying to appeal to everyone to do anything which appeals to anyone, in its death throes talking about the future so the media stops talking about the present because Labour know they are about to spend a very long time in the wilderness.
  
  And frankly, while the SNP are running the show in Scotland and Labour are doing everything in their power to trip them up (even at the expense of Scotland), I would be very surprised if Labour do award such contracts to Skykon.
• Green shoots and wind turbines 12:47pm on 16 Jul 2009 52 superAngry
  
  It's not in Brown's constituency on the east coast, it's in Argyll on the west coast. And as I pointed out at #33 it was a deal secured by, among others, the SNP when Vestas wanted to close the factory down. Instead there is huge investment going into it by Skykon. We couldn't expect such a common-sense approach from Labour.
• Green shoots and wind turbines 9:05pm on 15 Jul 2009 Caroline Lucas, a Green party MEP, recently made the same mistake on The Andrew Marr Show. There is a wind-turbine factory not a million miles from Andrew Neil's home-town in Campbeltown. In March it was saved from closure by the SNP Scottish Government in a deal which includes £35m of funding to nearly triple the size of the existing plant, introduce new jobs, techniques, and equipment. It was taken over from Vestas (the same company who had a factory on the Isle of Wight) by Danish group Skykon.
  
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• The "S" word 2:36pm on 17 Apr 2009 I'd wager on the first two Diabloandco! And I think your phrase has something to do with fish and bicycles but don't quote me on that. ;)
  
  As for the webcast the BBC finally has a link up on the Scotland Politics page (starts at 2:45). I have to wonder how many questions there will be in Alex's interview tomorrow though as the BBC apparently "forgot" to put a prominent link in to submit them.
• The "S" word 1:50pm on 17 Apr 2009 I thought there was a BBC webcast for the SNP spring conference? I can't see any links for it. And unlike Brian's interviews with Murphy and Goldie (which had a link up weeks before the date so at the least people could ask questions) I still can't see a link to Brian's interview with Salmond.
  
  Is this all being moved around last minute for Sir Neil MacCormick's funeral? Or is the BBC playing silly games again? Or am I being daft?
• 'Vigilante retribution' 11:59am on 26 Mar 2009 I got the same problem with referring to a newspaper article, the BBC are being very wary (I'd say too wary imo as I was careful to say accusation, but I am not one to question) of defamatory comments. So I'll be extra careful this time.
  
  A Dundee newspaper is reporting that Lord Provost Letford is accusing the Labour group of offering him an OBE for stepping down two years early, which according to the article Letford cites as the "overriding reason" of why he resigned the group.
  
  It is reported that Keenan and Borthwick have both denied the accusations.
  
  It is understood the BBC ought to be reporting this instead of Alex Salmond being afraid of the school choir (or reported as being)!
• Doing the sums 11:57pm on 24 Mar 2009 Brian sort the BBC Labour mouthpiece out. Newsnight Scotland is getting dull for it's inevitable lack of impartiality but the contrast between Brewer's SNP and Labour interviews today could only have been more shocking if he'd offered Rhona a cuppa and a choccy biscuit to dunk in it.
• Crossing borders 00:52am on 24 Mar 2009 On the subject of cooperation it's great to hear the news that Lord Provost Letford has resigned from the Labour group in Dundee. Keenan, of course, is spitting the dummy.
  
  It looks like the SNP will be forming a new administration in Dundee Council.
• Salmond on the brink? 5:49pm on 30 Jan 2009 I'm just waiting to go out for a meal but wanted to quickly say that in the main I agree (except about Scottish independence obviously). However when I *know* someone is repeating a myth and *why* that myth is being repeated then I only think it right that it be ridiculed for what it is (and we may disagree over that, I don't know).
  
  I do wonder how many times you re-read your post, and because even I make mistakes and use far too much punctuation sometimes I shan't mention misplaced (on the plural) and missing apostrophes! ;-)

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