{"id":103,"date":"2011-03-30T11:04:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T10:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2016-10-13T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:37:28","slug":"the-leaders-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"The Leader&rsquo;s Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/alexsalmond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"alexsalmond\" alt=\"alexsalmond\" src=\"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/alexsalmond_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"204\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Alex Salmond is not everyone\u2019s cup of tea. To some he\u2019s intelligent, to some he\u2019s arrogant. To some he\u2019s an inspiration, to some he\u2019s a pariah.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/iaingray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"iaingray\" alt=\"iaingray\" src=\"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/iaingray_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Whatever he is though, last night\u2019s Leader\u2019s Debate showed that he\u2019s a giant among mice within Scottish politics. The three \u2018also-rans\u2019 that shared the stage were little more than lackie\u2019s of their English overseers \u2013 mouthpieces for their party apparatchiks.<\/p>\n<p>Eck The Fish wiped the floor with these light-weights and showed once again, that Scotland needs to wake up and relinquish the chains of tradition that have shored up the Unionists for far too long.<\/p>\n<p>The saddest phrase in Scotland is \u201cI\u2019ve been a Labour man a\u2019 ma life\u201d\u2026 what is it they like? The name? Because that\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s remained remotely similar. How these \u201cLabour men\u201d love their socialist ideals \u2013 but ignore them when they\u2019re dangled from the end of their noses.<\/p>\n<p>Vote Labour if you must \u2013 enjoy your nuclear energy, your recession, your illegal wars, your spiralling bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>Just don\u2019t greet to those of us competent enough to think for ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Alex Salmond is not everyone\u2019s cup of tea. To some he\u2019s intelligent, to some he\u2019s arrogant. To some he\u2019s an inspiration, to some he\u2019s a pariah. Whatever he is though, last night\u2019s Leader\u2019s Debate showed that he\u2019s a giant among mice within Scottish politics. The three \u2018also-rans\u2019 that shared the stage were little more&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/?p=103\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childofthemist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}