Sean Connery dials for the SNP

[AmericanErrorist]

Sir Sean Connery's phone calls to thousands of Scottish households urging them to vote SNP may break telephone marketing rules, it has been claimed.

The Liberal Democrats say the Nationalists could be fined for contacting people without consent...

The UK Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, has written to the SNP saying the party would be breaking telephone marketing rules if the calls are made without the consent of those receiving them...

The 35-second pre-recorded message from Connery, a long-time SNP supporter, begins: "Hello there. This is Sean Connery.

"No, it's not a joke - unfortunately the real joke is the Labour party."

The call goes on to proclaim the SNP as "the most trustworthy political party of them all" and urges people to vote for them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/scotland/4426815.stm

[non sociopath skin]

1. Actually, the real joke is that Sean Connery doesn't appear ...

... to have lived in Scotland since pussy was a kitten.

The Skin

[Anarcho-Socialist]

2. Yes, it doesn't seem very patriotic:

"I want independence for Scotland, although I don't live there".

I think there's little point to breaking up Great Britain, it would be a very expensive and unnecessary act. Separatism is pointless unless there are civil rights issues or a democratic deficit.

[D-Notice]

3. If they wanna leave, let 'em

it'll mean England doesn't have to keep propping 'em up! ;-)