- A massive rout of the left in Scotland by the Scottish National Party and Tory gains in Wales appear to give UK PM David Cameron and the Tories a majority in yesterday's UK elections.
- US Attorney General Loretta Lynch is expected to announce as early as today that the Justice Department will be making a full patterns and practices investigation into the Baltimore PD.
- President Obama will visit Nike's headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon today to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership as the shoemaker pledges to create 10,000 new US jobs.
- Mobile phone giant Ericsson is suing Apple in Europe over patent royalties as Apple's current arrangement for paying Ericsson expired in January.
- Swiss watchmaker Swatch says they will be releasing "revolutionary" battery technology in 2016 for smartwatches and automobiles.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
It's not a 'rout of the left' in Scotland. The Labour Party has tracked to the right now for years, thanks to pols like Tony Blair. The Scottish National Party (SNP) is closer to what Labour used to stand for - anti-austerity, anti-nuclear, etc. In the run-up to the independence referendum last September, the British MSM and politicians begged Scotland to stay with the UK, and made all sorts of promises if we voted to stay. None of those promises were fulfilled and the British MSM in the run-up to this election has been incredibly racist and dismissive, and people in Scotland will not get fooled again. If we must stay in the UK, then we want a strong Scottish voice in the UK Parliament. Of the 59 Scottish Parliament seats, there remains one Labour, one Conservative, one Lib Dem and 56 Scottish National Party. If Labour had won in England, perhaps the SNP would've worked with them. But the SNP will not work with the Conservatives, and perhaps another referendum will be on the cards in the next few years, especially if the Tories push through a referendum on staying in the European Union. Scotland has subsidised the UK with its oil revenues to the tune of BILLIONS for over thirty years; Scotland is also the (reluctant) "host" to the UK's Trident nuclear submarine "deterrent", a nuclear weapons system whose guidance system is completely controlled by the US - these are the only two reasons why Westminster wants Scotland to stay in the UK - otherwise they couldn't give a s*** about us.
ReplyDelete