Dear All
The Scottish National Party has held their ‘pre
wake’ in Aberdeen at the weekend for Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond.
The conference was a celebration of failure
to achieve, on many levels it was a failure, the worst failure exhibit with
pride concerned women.
Alex Salmond has elevated two women to Cabinet
positions; that was described by senior Opposition politicians as "the
very worst type of tokenism".
They are of course right, the attempt to
win the women’s vote is so crude, it is rather like a virgin pulling at his
first set of female panties!
Women will see through this straight away,
they are being conned and being played for suckers.
Crude, unsophisticated and will ultimately
backfire.
Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader
rightly denounced the move as a “particularly cynical stunt” and rightly questioned
why neither of the female ministers had been given this status over the past
seven years of SNP rule at Holyrood.
Samond is rattled, this is clear, his
botched childcare fiasco, £700 million and 40,000 mums missing is a sign of
knee jerk politics, say anything to win a vote cache.
So, lets us be very clear what Salmond has
done, he has effective said, ‘listen dear, you are promoted to be a Cabinet
minister in a phoney made up position
and you will not be supported by a team of your own ministers’.
Are women going to vote for independence because
Alex Salmond boosted the pay of two women from £84,445 to £101,757?
No!
Salmond’s speech was a pleading and
extraordinary death cry, relatively short, but emotionally charged.
Political death is coming for him, he has
entered death’s ante room; he is waiting as the clock ticks down to ultimate
judgment.
Salmond during his final farewell said he
wanted companies in an independent Scotland to ‘aspire’ to having their boards
be 40% female.
Although he might be able to push that
through using law, we should remember that positive discrimination is just
discrimination.
Salmond said:
"We practice what we preach”.
It took 7 years for him to act, hardly a
practicing what I preach kinda guy to me, more like a ‘looking at the female
vote saying no kinda guy’ to me.
He added:
“The Cabinet is our board as a country, and
women will make up 40% of the members of the Scottish Cabinet."
Does he think he is talking to simpletons?
I ask that question because it rather looks
like it.
Scottish Labour's shadow cabinet is already
40% female.
SNP ministers and delegates are now confidently
predicting a Yes win with some SNP ministers saying a 60%-40% victory is
likely.
That is never going to happen, Salmond has
run his course, the SNP has been exposed as liars on the key issues; they think
this will pull off a 60%-40% victory?
Bluff, bluster and delusional thinking!
Salmond decied to play the crowd by demanding
David Cameron debate with him on TV; gave a "cast-iron guarantee"
that Trident would be expelled and the bedroom tax abolished after a Yes vote.
If this is his wares, he is really in
trouble, Trident is staying because there is a wider picture that Scots recognize,
he should have gone with my positive agenda of pro Nato and pro nuclear Faslane,
he lacks vision,
On the cusp of the biggest decision in modern
Scottish political history, he spoke for only 30 minutes; he couldn’t even get
a 10 minute standing ovation from the faithful.
Of Better Together, he said:
"They are the most miserable,
negative, depressing and thoroughly boring campaign in modern political
history. They are already out of touch with the people and are now losing touch
with reality."
Better Together are winning!
On cybernats, the hare wing of nationalism
which several are connected to the SNP leadership of Alex Salmond and unpopular
Nicola Sturgeon, Salmond had this message:
"The Yes campaign is positive,
uplifting, hopeful and must always stay that way."
Try telling that to my nationalist stalker @georgemlaird
who setup a hate account on twitter using my name, and members of Team Sturgeon
joined immediately including the official twitter account of Anniesland SNP.
In a piece of theatre which recognised that
people hate him, he said the vote was not about the SNP or him personally.
This vote is all about one man taking
control of Scotland that can never be allowed to happen.
He used the con trick:
"It's about putting Scotland's future
in Scotland's hands."
In his warped mind, he thinks he is
Scotland.
In a dig at the Tories, just to return to
his ‘positive’ campaign he said:
"In an independent Scotland we can
give this guarantee: the era of Tory governments unelected by the people of
Scotland handing out punishment to the poor and the disabled will be gone and
gone for good."
Positive campaign!!!!!
Shadow Scottish Secretary Margaret Curran said
possibly the best analysis of the 30 minute call to arms when she said it was "drivel".
Curran added:
"Women will see through his cynical
attempts to win them over."
Conservative MSP John Lamont said:
"Alex Salmond knows he has a problem
appealing to half of the electorate, but women can spot a dodgy chat-up line
when they hear it. He has had seven years to do something about childcare, but
he is only now interested in the issue because he thinks there are votes in it
for himself."
Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell
said the speech failed to answer the "big questions" hanging over
independence.
30 minutes, nothing no, no radical vision,
a few cronies given a pay rise, a plea to Labour voters and women and that was
that.
I don’t think that a man married to a woman
old enough to be his mother will be feeling the hand of destiny on his
shoulder, one thing he will be feeling on the 18th September is the political
Grim Reaper coming to claim his political life.
Finally, Salmond's sent his activists out on the equivalent of the 'Bataan death march', best to avoid that by going on sick parade.
Finally, Salmond's sent his activists out on the equivalent of the 'Bataan death march', best to avoid that by going on sick parade.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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