Dear All
In politics, we are blessed by many people
who talk utter shite!
Yes Scotland has a Chief Executive called Blair
Jenkins, despite having a jinx in the shape of Scotland’s unpopular Deputy
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon hanging around his neck like a dead albatross,
he still dreams of being a visionary.
Back in September when the doubters were
saying the campaign for independence was dead, it wasn’t going anyway and
people like myself saying Yes Scotland was a crony ridden pit of the
untalented, Blair Jenkins predicted that the gap between the Yes and No camps
would have narrowed by the end of 2013.
And he was right, but the real story is not
that he was right, but that the rise was only a single point.
It now stands at 27%, nearly two years of
effort and got nowhere, a remarkable achievement for someone who is so ‘gifted’
and ‘talented’.
One wonders if he had stayed at home would
the increase have been more!
We will never know but we could hazard a guess.
“I would expect to see some narrowing”
cried Mr. Jenkins!
The White Paper was supposed to be a
springboard that would set of a chain of events that would kickstart this
independence campaign for Salmond and Sturgeon.
It was their ‘we are on our way’ moment,
but alas, the White paper was a pile of shit that the Scottish public wasn’t
interested in.
On the big day itself, the Scottish
Parliament was like a ghost town no mass crowds outside, just the press and
some interested spectators.
Is the Yes Campaign capable of achieving a
turnaround?
Not with unpopular Nicola Sturgeon at the
helm, not with Scotland on pause, not with Michael Matheson leaving a Scots
woman to die, not with Kenny MacAskill as Justice Minister, not with Mike Russell
as Education Minister.
And not with Alex Salmond playing the ‘jolly
fat man’ to the crowds, which there aren’t any!
A new poll published just before Christmas by TNS
BMRB put support for Yes at 27 per cent, this is one point increase when
compared with the previous survey, which was done prior to Alex Salmond publising
his white paper for independence.
If Blair Jenkins can get 1% a year, then he
has only to keep the campaign running for another 24 years to ensure victory.
That is an achievement of sorts if it can
be done, new bill for the Scottish Parliament after the New Year?
The Neverendum Bill (Scotland) Act 2014!
Blair Jenkins can forget any call coming
post independence defeat for him to head up the Scottish Broadcasting Service.
SNP ‘strategists’ can’t pull any rabbits
out of their hats, but perhaps a few hairs out of their ass is possible. As to
the strategy, it appears that smoke and mirrors don’t work, spin and bluster
doesn’t work either, and as to lying, that killed the campaign stone cold dead.
Dead, dead, dead, as to Salmond, he is a
turn off to the female vote, and likewise unpopular Nicola Sturgeon isn’t liked
either.
Many a time I heard the same word coming
back to me from women voters in Govan; Nicola Sturgeon is an “arsehole”.
This presents a problem for Ms. Sturgeon,
how do you convince people to trust an “arsehole", it isn’t like you are
starting from square one, she starts quite a few steps back.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
1 comment:
George,
You have mentioned a number of organisations masquerading as community or other groups which are linked to SNP/Yes, can you name and shame them. it would be good to know who i'm coming up against in online discussions
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