Dear All
After the big build up, the wait was
finally over last Tuesday, the Scottish National Party’s version of an
independent Scotland was revealed.
Sadly, there was nothing new as the SNP
smashed together two SNP manifestos, one for Westminster and the other for
Holyrood.
Scottish independence cannot be run as an
election, it had to be done as a ‘special’, due to a considerable lack of
talent in the SNP which is run as a clique using the ‘cult of personality’ centred
around Alex Salmond, it has all come crashing down around him and Scotland’s
unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The day, itself was dark and overcast,
there was no feeling that something special was happening in Govan where the white
paper was launched nor at Holyrood, no crowds present, two Yes supporters and a
guy with a Union Jack was ‘the crowd’.
It was worse than the Edinburgh Agreement
where at its height according to Gordon Brewer of Newsnight Scotland, the ‘baker’s dozen’ turned up,
13 brave souls wandered by to see the 'historic day'. Failed Dunfermline candidate Shirley Anne
Somerville cited that people might have had difficulties getting to the front,
mocked by Brewer.
So, the last bullet has been fired by Alex
Salmond, no more rounds in the clip.
The aftermath now is that just 27% of Scots
said that they supported independence.
27% is a sign of the continual feebleness
that has dogged unpopular Nicola Sturgeon, the ‘face of independence’; Nicola
really does turn guys off, and also women, it must be something to do with her
personality.
27% has further to drop with Nicola
Sturgeon at the helm, the more she speaks, the more people realise that she and
Alex Salmond can’t be trusted, can’t be trusted at all.
The group that Sturgeon is also tasked with
turning around is the ‘don’t knows’, they sit at around 17%, even if you add
all of them to the 27%, Sturgeon can’t win!
The results will come as little comfort to
Scottish Government ministers who abandoned their desks to run away and leave
their departments hanging in the wind!
Scotland is on pause and has been since
2011.
Of the launch day itself, the SNP staged a
high-profile press conference as they launched their "indy plan". It
was spin over substance, it was delusion over vision, it was goodnight and good
bye for their last chance.
The new poll is grim for Alex Salmond and
Nicola Sturgeon as 49% of respondents thought that their families would be
worse off within an independent Scotland.
Of those who thought they would be better
off or who believe the SNP rhetoric 23% are willing to trust Salmond that milk
and honey is just around the corner.
The 23% haven’t done enough reading or aren’t
asking the real questions, they are going on blind faith, and that isn’t good
enough.
Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First Minister
Nicola Sturgeon was tasked as the ‘face of independence’, she was supposed to
reach out to gain the crucial women’s vote, however, when you have a horrible
personality, and are seemingly lacking in integrity, she wouldn’t be fooling
women any time soon, among women only 23% intended to vote Yes.
Over 75% of Scottish women aren’t buying
what Nicola Sturgeon is selling, so much for the ‘face of independence’; did
the SNP seriously expect that Sturgeon can appeal to women?
See what I mean by a complete lack of genuine
talent in the SNP?
George Laird is always right.
Last week First Minister Alex Salmond boldly
declared the 650-page document was the "most comprehensive blueprint for
an independent country ever published, not just for Scotland but for any
prospective independent nation".
His aide, or more descriptively liability
SNP MSP Joan McAlpine said that compared to this the US ‘Declaration of Independence’
was a foot note.
Ms. McAlpine is of course utterly deluded and
her column in the Daily Record is a comic piece of nonsense.
Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde
University said:
"There can be little doubt the 'yes'
side will be disappointed with this result as it does not show any evidence of
any measurable swing in opinion."
I have bumped into Professor Curtice on
three occasions, he is seen as the go to guy for electoral stuff and politics.
He added that one of the reasons that there
appears to have no impact on public opinion is that the White Paper "has
not immediately persuaded people they will be better off and this is
crucial".
There is such a thing called ‘wisdom of the
crowds’, this is where a group of people gather together and come up with the
right solutions, many minds are better than one.
In the SNP, when the clique surrounding
Salmond and Sturgeon gather together and they can’t come up with anything to
push independence forward, they have spent a year and a half continually
failing to create and aspire.
The Scottish independence launch by the SNP
wasn’t helped by Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
wearing the ‘Coat of Destiny’, this jacket she wore on the day summed up for
me, the SNP’s entire problem, they just look and sound ridiculous.
Particularly Alex Salmond and Nicola
Sturgeon!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
5 comments:
Really like your blog. Totally spot on in pretty much all counts.
However I can't figure out when and how you went from a hardcore SNP supporter to a No supporter?
What was the tipping point(s)?
I pounded the streets of Glasgow in the pissing rain and freezing temperatures for years to promote Independence on behalf of the SNP. Only to find out the hierarchy lived in cuckoo land. Most activists feel the same as me. Gutted.
Dear Anon
“I pounded the streets of Glasgow in the pissing rain and freezing temperatures for years to promote Independence on behalf of the SNP”.
You must have thought as I did, you thought you had join a political party, you didn’t, you joined a party within a party, you were used as cheap menial labour, I can understand if you are annoyed, they used me too, also they used many of my ideas such as social media. But at their core they are lazy, stupid and ignorant people.
Many of them are 90 minute Nationalists who only come out when something is in it for them. Now the 90 minute Nats are finding that the really good activists have walked away from the party, Alex Salmond is left with the trash
“Only to find out the hierarchy lived in cuckoo land. Most activists feel the same as me. Gutted”.
This is why people should quietly abandon the SNP, they don’t stand for fairness, equality and social justice, you are just propping up a clique, in Glasgow, the SNP is run for the benefit of unpopular Nicola Sturgeon. You can see how she had previously led Glasgow SNP to defeat and now she is leading the entire SNP to indy defeat.
Little Ms. Unpopular, the granddaughter of an Englishwoman who is going to lead Scots to independence, I think not!
If you are working class don’t waste a single day more on this SNP campaign, it is a loser.
You can google how the SNP tried to set me up and treated me, and that I do not forgive or forget.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Just to let you know George, your blog is great. Someone took the time to give up a thumbs up on the Scotsman. I am now going to be a regular reader, here is the link for you.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/tom-peterkin-all-eyes-are-on-the-yes-vote-1-3247817
excellent piece
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