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Prime Minister - Tharg the Mighty
Chancellor of the Exchequer - Mr " 10% " Quartz
Home Office - Maria
Enviroment - Father Earth
Sports - Giant senior.
Family Affairs - Pa Angel 

Just got a fantastic sketch from Colin MacNeil in the post, so here is a fairly beaten looking Judge Logan.

I voz onlee following orderz! He paid me to do it.

Cheers

Colin (art whore) MacNeil

I'm glad you like it, Gav. And that you got it before jetting off to Oz. Don't forget to sacrifice a small chicken (McNuggets apparently still counts) to the Postal Gods for the volcano. 

Groovy first story for the comp there, Emcee!

Do I spy a sly homage to the almighty COMMANDO FORCES?
On the second page of Dredd the man with the beard has a badge on his hat saying CF.

Could just be a coincidence mind you.

Coincidende? I don't know what you could possibly mean! 

Congratulations Dounreay, well done. And well done to Emceehamster and Sharky! There were some cracking ideas this comp, well done everyone!

My name was very last on Colins list but i am not expecting anything and i am pretty sure i said "dont worry about it" because i had already bought 3 pages of original art which enough in itself.

Because you said " don't worry about it" I wasn't going to do one for you. But, just so there's no squabbling, I'll do you something. I'll stick it in the post in the next couple of days if you PM me your address.
Everybody happy now?

*entire board PMs address to Colin MacNeil*

Gulp! *checks how many crayons are left*

Here's an idea for everyone. Conscription politics!
Instead of mainly (though not all) self serving "elected" politicians, why not a national lottery akin to jury service where people are conscripted to political office.
Imagine the scene. You pick up your post one morning and...
"Bugger! I'm the chancellor of the exchequer!"
A half-way house between anarchy and "regular" politics?

Still, plenty of time yet.

Maybe we should continue the debate... with alcohol...

Are you a mind reader as well hoo-Haa, (or is my web cam still on?) I just opened myself a bottle of beer.

My name was very last on Colins list but i am not expecting anything and i am pretty sure i said "dont worry about it" because i had already bought 3 pages of original art which enough in itself.

Because you said " don't worry about it" I wasn't going to do one for you. But, just so there's no squabbling, I'll do you something. I'll stick it in the post in the next couple of days if you PM me your address.
Everybody happy now?

Would Deadhead sell genre novels as well as comics and GNs?

I don't think it does books. There's a place just round the corner called Transreal which might be better suited.

Sorry, Hoo-Haa, didn't realise it was a novel as opposed to a graphic novel. I would definitely concur with The Cosh, Transreal is the place for you to try in Edinburgh. It's a great wee shop.

I think Labour camps should be re-introduced for the great unwashed who will never do a days work in their lives.

Labour camps! Take two bottles of Zyclon B into the shower? Couldn't I be sent to a Liberal or Green Party camp instead, they sound so much nicer.

Well, I have certainly seemed to stir things up!
I make no apologies for my views, it comes from the views of my culture. I am in my mid forties, my father was in his forties when I was born, his father was in his thirties when he was born. My upbringing was, in a sense, in the pre modern enlightenment way. I have VERY old fashioned views. I have spoken to many diverse people in Scotland and the vast majority generally agree with me, at least those in their 40's/50's and over. The older they are the more similar the views.
I grew up in a time and place where it was considered "multi-cultural" if both Catholics and Protestants lived on the same street, or even if someone from Glasgow or Edinburgh lived there.
It may sound strange to you younger folk, or to those who do live amongst many communities, but that is how my life/culture was then.
It was also my culture to look down on the poor, the homosexual, the aetheist etc. Those things have changed thankfully, but at least that was a move from within my own culture. All cultures change, some die out, some stamped out. I guess what I'm trying to saw is let's see where "our" culture will take us, not the homogenous culture of global multi-culturism, where wherever you go you get the same thing again and again.
This country has suffered terribly in the last century, from the loss of an entire generation in the First World War where the hearts of entire communities were litterally wiped out in Scotland. To the wiping out of the hopes and stability of entire communities with the destruction of the old industries, coal, ship building and steel making in the eighties.

We do need immigrants to come here, to help with the rich diversity of our gene pool, to bring new ideas and ways of doing stuff. But not at the cost at what our ancestors struggled and died for.
In the very early nineties I considered moving to London to help progress my career, but I decided not to because I wanted to remain Scottish. If I were to move outside Scotland then the land and people I would live with would have to have my full support, otherewise why would they have any reason to accept me. Maybe it's an old fashioned view, I don't know. All I know is that I can see my nation's culture teeter on the edge of oblivion and it makes me sad. The glens of my ancestors are all but devoid of their natives, their language, dialects and customs are all disappearing.
Maybe our culture should disappear from this earth. Maybe it's too old fashioned, too un-PC, too different to the demands of global modernisation.

Maybe multi-culturism is the future, I don't know. All I know is that I want to spend the rest of my life on this sphere here, amongst my own kin, amongst those who hold their memories dear and those who will fight and give everything for that dream that is Scotland.

This is indeed a very interesting thread. Here are some thoughts.

The arguments about immigration should be based on economics and numbers only which they are.

Immigration based on economics only? Bollocks! So you would put money before principles then? How about slavery then? Let's bring back serfdom. How about keeping the poor poor? Let's just farm a workforce, a la brave new world. It would be good for the economy. Money is not our reason for being, it is just a mechanism for trade.
I have no problems with people coming to this country, so long as they become us and support us, believe in what we believe in and add to the life of this nation. If they want to come here and be themselves and set up their own churches, communities etc. Then they can fuck off! Immigrants, yes. Colonists, no.
Numbers! I have no children, I have no desire for them, but I still care about my country even after my death. Unlimited immigration will only lead to this country being very, very overcrowded. It already is in my opinion. What do you want, your descendents to live in Mega-city UK, or a clean and calm country where people can enjoy the wonderous natural landscape of these treasured isles? Do you want your descendents to wait in line for their meagre weekly ration of soylent red, white and blue, or a place where everyone can have a free and healthy life without want?

I think alot of people know that I'm Scottish and that I believe in an independant Scottish state. Yup, I'm an SNP voter. Though I don't agree with all their policies, I still vote for them. They are by and large a bunch of pinko lefty liberals who try and massage the cocks of public opinion and political correctness (like every other party it seems). However, for me they do offer the best avenue for my own political beliefs. ie an independant Scotland.
Whatever everyone does. Vote. An imperfect choice is better than no choice at all.

Rant over.

I really shouldn't read stuff about politics and opinion, it sets me off! My wife has already banned me from watching the news on the telly. I have no idea why!

Sorry, have been a bit busy of late, but the votes from the drunk scotsman jury is -

1 - Emceehamster 2
2 - Emceehamster 1
3 - Dounreay 1

Well done to all though.