Having been based first in Turkey and since then Tokyo for approximately 20 years in total and having observed the body language and mannerisms of the various entrenched political elites, what strikes me about Iain Gray and his associates in the Labour Party in Scotland is the sheer gangsterism of their collective demeanour mirrored here in Tokyo by the lower level muscle of the Japanese yakuza crime cartels: The gallous rhetorical speech patterns and hardman postures and struts are uncannily similar.
A distinctly unpleasant sight to witness in either case, but above all in aspiring national leaders albeit of the quisling variety. In Turkish, maganda types.
After getting a friend to install Zonal Firewall, I find that I cannot get many photo (?) links like this one. But I'm dying to know who now is endorsing AS!
Will someone please post the answer? Thanks.
Endorsed by Ian Gray - isn't that the Kiss of Death?
Posted by: charlie | April 08, 2011 at 09:55 AM
Naughty naughty Joan! I can't vote for you but hope you glide in to Holyrood in May.
Posted by: Gavin C Barrie | April 06, 2011 at 07:46 PM
Still waiting for someone to PRINT the name please (Joan's link doesn't work for me).
Posted by: William Brown | April 06, 2011 at 11:12 AM
And another.
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3511675/Ecks-man.html
Posted by: cynicalHighlander | April 06, 2011 at 10:31 AM
Having been based first in Turkey and since then Tokyo for approximately 20 years in total and having observed the body language and mannerisms of the various entrenched political elites, what strikes me about Iain Gray and his associates in the Labour Party in Scotland is the sheer gangsterism of their collective demeanour mirrored here in Tokyo by the lower level muscle of the Japanese yakuza crime cartels: The gallous rhetorical speech patterns and hardman postures and struts are uncannily similar.
A distinctly unpleasant sight to witness in either case, but above all in aspiring national leaders albeit of the quisling variety. In Turkish, maganda types.
Posted by: David MacGille-Mhuire | April 06, 2011 at 04:49 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXN4F40pACc&
Posted by: bcnsco | April 06, 2011 at 01:17 AM
Is this just a personal endorsement like John Farquar or is he also voting SNP?
Posted by: alexander anderson | April 05, 2011 at 11:40 PM
After getting a friend to install Zonal Firewall, I find that I cannot get many photo (?) links like this one. But I'm dying to know who now is endorsing AS!
Will someone please post the answer? Thanks.
Posted by: William Brown | April 05, 2011 at 10:00 PM