Dear All
24 hours to save the political life of Alex
Salmond.
24 hours!
Tomorrow sees Alex Salmond firing his last
bullet to galvanise public opinion for a Yes vote.
As part of the plan, Salmond and his Ministers
are putting Scotland's economy at the heart of tomorrow's independence White
Paper launch.
We can expect an ‘everything will be rosy
in the garden’ approach, nothing bad ever is going to happen and if it does,
well that is the fault of the Union legacy.
There will be Nirvana, milk and honey will
flow with pledges to create thousands more jobs and secure the nation's future.
Don’t believe a word of it.
Recently Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First
Minister Nicola Sturgeon went to Govan Shipbuilders with people under the belief
that she was going to save 835 jobs.
She didn’t save a single one, but she did
point the people in the direction of the Govan Job centre.
Now, there is only one bullet left in the
magazine, one chance, one chance to kick start the SNP’s failed and utterly
inept campaign.
But there is no William Wallace figure to
lead the charge, just Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond and Scotland’s unpopular
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The White Paper is to be launched in
Glasgow and according to reports SNP MSPs are to be banned from attending, the
impression the SNP want to create is that this is a people’s event.
It’s not!
It is another staged managed piece of spin
to dupe voters.
It’s a sales pitch from a man who is more
like a second hand car salesman than a world leader, using emotion to say that that
no country has ever been better equipped to become independent.
And the old SNP mantra that Scotland's has "vast
natural resources, key growth sectors and human talent", so why are they
planning mass immigration then? You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work
out what that will mean; working class people will be marginalized from jobs
and opportunities.
Salmond has also named March 24, 2016, as
the date he hopes Scotland will break free from the United Kingdom if Scotland
votes Yes!
That will never happen under his watch or
indeed Nicola Sturgeon, they aren’t bright enough; they are opportunists,
nothing more.
Salmond will attend a meeting of the
Scottish Cabinet at the Glasgow Science Centre before presenting the
"Scottish Government's guide to independence" to the world's media.
The ‘historic’ setting of Glasgow Science
Centre! That is just as bad the picking of a cinema for the less than historic ‘Declaration
of Cineworld’.
A formal statement to Holyrood will take
place later in the afternoon; George Laird will be going to Holyrood tomorrow
for a BBC programme.
Salmond says he will build on Scotland's
"firm foundations", but his vision is built on quicksand and he is
sinking fast.
He is to say:
"The White Paper will make the
economic, social and democratic case for independence and show that the better
Scotland we all seek can only be achieved by putting the decisions about
Scotland's future in the hands of the people of Scotland."
What does that mean?
Scotland ruled by Scottish people?
No!
Alistair Darling, head of the Better
Together campaign is having a great campaign, last night he questioned the
speed of establishing independence on the back of a Yes vote in just 18 months.
Complex negotiations take time but Salmond
wants to ram everything through in 18 months to meet an election timetable for
2016!
It will take time disentangle the
300-year-old union, and you can add in negotiations with major institutions
such as membership of the EU, Nato and other international organisations. When
it comes to international affairs, the SNP leadership believes they can simply
go and tell the other parties want they want and they will just say yes!
These people are beyond stupid, inept and
incapable.
Darling added:
"We are entitled to ask what sort of a
deal we are likely to get on such a tight timetable and what the back-up plans
are."
We would get a bad deal and there is no
back up plans.
We have seen a minor skirmish over the SNP's
supposed desired currency union, with Alistair Carmichael, the Scottish
Secretary, insisting it would not work and no major party is prepared to accept
such a situation.
SNP MP Stewart Hosie said refusing to allow
Scotland to use sterling was "bonkers."
That is the positive case, Stewart Hosie
wants to ‘help’ England, he wants a currency union with people who are 'bonkers'?
So, stay tuned, tomorrow is Alex Salmond’s
last chance to kick start his campaign, it won’t work, tomorrow is just another
day for Scots, there isn't a build up, there is no excitement and no one is
talking about it.
Last chance, one bullet!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
2 comments:
Every question was greeted with...... wait for the White Paper.
This will be interesting.
The last Bullet? I do hope not.
He should have saved three:
One for his dog,
One for Nicola,
The last for himself....
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