Dear All
Last night I was talking to a Sheriff.
No, I wasn’t in America; I didn’t get to
ride a horse or tote a six gun.
This Sheriff is a Scottish one.
Anyway, I was asking their opinion about
the U turn by Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill since they jail people and I
have an interest in law.
I was saying MacAskill has kicked the need
for corroboration in criminal trials into the long grass, and that the SNP were
using the law as a political football for the women’s vote.
The Sheriff said to me that MacAskill must
think that women are mugs!
And also there was many problems with the
botched attempted to get rid of corroboration.
Like the need for a fair trial.
Funnily enough, I was saying the exact same
thing on this blog!
George Laird right again.
Kenny MacAskill should be sacked, in fact
he should never have been appointed as Justice Minsiter in the first place; he
is of course Alex Salmond’s pal.
That is the criteria for Cabinet
appointments, that and gesture politics as a fob to women.
Although Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First
Minister Nicola Sturgeon is calling for more women in the Cabinet to attempt to
con women, she singly fails to recognise that in MacAskill, Scotland has the
‘biggest fanny’ ever to hold a Cabinet post.
Now, Salmond is facing calls to replace
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill after he shelved proposals to end the need
for corroboration in criminal trials.
That won’t happen, Salmond and Sturgeon
need to present a united anti working class, anti UK, anti human rights front.
Salmond is on the back foot on justice; he
can’t put up a credible defence of MacAskill and doesn’t have the balls to sack
him.
The kicking of corroboration into the long
grass is all about not having a running argument leading up to the referendum,
the Sheriff agree with my point this was about a delaying action.
Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont used
First Minister's Questions yesterday to attack Mr MacAskill's
"disgraceful" handling of the Scottish Government's Criminal Justice
Bill.
Presumably the tactic is to keep mentioning
the ending of the right to a fair trial as prescribed by Article Six of the
Human Rights Act.
Lamont asked:
"Given Kenny MacAskill's approach and
his expressed hostility to those who raised genuine concerns about what he was
doing, does the First Minister really believe that it is possible for this
Parliament to reach that critical consensus on corroboration with Kenny
MacAskill as Cabinet Secretary?"
She should be calling for a vote of no
confidence.
Asked if Salmond retained full confidence
in his Justice Secretary, Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ said:
"Yes."
More inept judgment, akin to warped
thinking!
Salmond then went on to defend the indefensible:
"I'll tell you why I have got
confidence in this Justice Secretary, because we have 1000 extra police on the
streets and in communities of Scotland thanks to this Justice Secretary”.
Actually, it was the Tories who helped get
the 1,000, seems Salmond wants to re-write history.
Salmond added:
"Recorded crime in Scotland is down by
35% thanks to this Justice Secretary, violent crime is down by almost a half
under the office of this Justice Secretary and crimes of handling offensive
weapons are down 60%, and above all, people's fear of crime in Scotland is
dropping for the first time."
This isn’t because of MacAskill, this is
because of the Police, and as the SNP keep saying they have no control over
operational matters.
As to the delay to win wider support, the
SNP won’t get it, using rape as tactic to ‘win’ over people is pretty disgusting
and backward thinking.
As I have previously said, the Crime Bill is
utter rubbish much like the Fitba law which clearly shows that the SNP don’t
know what they are doing.
Lawyers represented by the Law Society of
Scotland and the Faculty of Advocates have voiced staunch opposition to the
proposal, warning it would lead to wrongful convictions, and other sections of
the legal establishment like Sheriffs aren’t signing up to MacAskill’s ‘get the
women’s vote ploy’.
As the Sheriff said last night:
“Women aren’t mugs”!
Kenny MacAskill can't outrun the stigma of Al Megrahi, no matter what he does.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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