Dear All
During the Scottish independence campaign, I saw Better
Together activists outside the Central Station in Glasgow ,
you may remember I posted on this, a Yes guy was arguing with a BT activist was
dead keen to find out the benefits of the Union .
Having no luck it appears, he then comes up to me and gets in my face and
starts off by saying:
“I have just been talking to your pal”.
At that point, I informed him, he wasn’t my pal, facts
matter, anyway, he then goes onto ask me, ‘give me a benefit of staying in the Union ’. As quick as a flash, I said access to 200
Embassies in 160 countries, he prompted called me a liar. I said look it up,
the information is available to the public. He stormed off in the huff, if he
asked for another benefit, I was going to then say visa free travel to 173
countries, but he was off, it was a Friday, probably had to get home to feed
the cat.
Back to benefits of being in the Union ,
it appears that an English town has decided to burn an effigy of Alex Salmond
on bonfire night, thus leading to howls of fake outrage by independence
supporters. It also appears that the indy supporters objected to the people in Lewes
exercising their human right to free of expression. Such was the depth of their
outrage; they took to twitter, which does beg the question, why was a land
invasion ruled out?
Also we should remember that unpopular Nicola Sturgeon
wouldn’t have supported it thereby putting in jeopardy her free seats in the
Royal box at Wimbledon sitting eating ice
cream and strawberries with our English oppressors while watching the tennis.
The giant effigy of Alex Salmond is carted around the town
to drum up supports before being burned at the stake at the popular Lewes
bonfire celebrations in East Sussex .
As well as Salmond going up in smoke, the organisers also
decided to burn ‘Nessie’, but more importantly, the also decide to burn the
ridiculous ‘45’ symbol that the plebs have latched onto as a symbol of hope.
In Scotland, only 37.7% of Scots eligible to vote actually
voted Yes in the Scottish referendum,
that means the other 62.3% voted No or couldn’t be arsed going to cast their
vote.
Lewes has a proud tradition of bonfire societies burning prominent
political figures, and they use the burning event to stake their claim to be the
world’s greatest bonfire event. On Facebook, some people were quick to make
comments about the burning from the Unionist leaning persuasion with some
saying ‘shite doesn’t burn’! Alex Salmond joins a long list of people being
thrown on the fire, last year, Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, was
burned. 2012, David Cameron and Nick
Clegg went up in flames which caused much happiness. And to show their European
and diverse cultural identities, previous guys have included Angela Merkel and
Osama Bin Laden.
Some bright spark from East Sussex County Council possibly
sensing this would make a good story in the year of Alex Salmond’s political
death tweeted a photograph of the Salmond guy. Obviously stoking the flames,
pun intended! But to be terribly PC and right on, they did point out that the council
had nothing to do with the choice, it was the local Waterloo Bonfire Society.
18th September 2014, Salmond met his Waterloo alright!
The event marks the date of the uncovering of the Gunpowder
Plot in 1605, but also commemorates the memory of 17 Protestant martyrs from
the town who were burned at the stake in the 16th century.
In the olden days, state murder was very much the vogue,
being burned, drowned, or hacked to death, most without the absence of proper
due process as we understand it now.
Burning now is restricted to effigies.
Several societies in Lewes put on parades and there are firework
displays, with up to 80,000 spectators visiting the town, which has a
population of circa 16,000. At the end of his political career, Alex Salmond is
reduced to opening supermarkets and being publicly burned; next stop a place on
Britain ’s
got no talent.
A spokesman for the First Minister said:
"The Tory-controlled
East Sussex
County Council obviously view the
First Minister, and the 45 per cent of Scots who voted Yes, as big a threat to
the Westminster
establishment as Guy Fawkes, although it's unclear why poor Nessie has been
targeted."
“Tory-controlled”, looks like the kind of talk you get from
a 90 minute Nationalist, it won’t have mattered who controlled the council; you
can also see the petted lip trembling with fake outrage wanting to get the bile
out.
In a double blow, Salmond also made it to a shortlist of
possible guys for the Edenbridge Bonfire Society's celebrations in Kent but like
the Scottish independence referendum, he lost out with the public over the
issue of the EU, when Jose Manuel Barroso, former president of the European
Commission was picked.
Barroso was chosen after Britain was told to pay an extra
pounds1.7 billion to the European Union.
The British consensus with the general public has been
starting to collate around ‘fuck that game of soldiers’, not a bean is the
public’s desire, it is like being pissed on without someone have the decency to
call it rain.
Speculation about this year's guy began when William Hill,
the boookies named Jeremy Clarkson, the Top Gear presenter, as the favourite.
He should at some point win out in future as he is becoming more and more
outrageous as time goes on. Why Clarkson hasn’t been disciplined or fired from Top
Gear is one of life’s mysteries, I guess, the BBC don’t want to break up the winning
team.
Previous effigies in Edenbridge have included Tony and
Cherie Blair, Gordon Brown, Edwina Currie, John Prescott, Mario Balotelli,
Wayne Rooney, Lance Armstrong and Russell Brand.
Presumably their followers took to twitter to display a
similar amount of fake outrage as the Nationalists are currently doing. No
doubt the wailing and gnashing of how their ‘hero’ has been treated has struck
a raw nerve. You can tell Salmond wasn’t pleased as he tried to joke his way
out of it by saying what did they have against ‘Nessie’? Probably nothing, it
was probably a representation of the fact that ‘Nessie’ like Salmond is all
about fiction and sweet FA to do with facts.
I would expect the ‘outrage’ to die down fairly quick
because Salmond is yesterday’s man and the ‘clique’ will be sniffing around
unpopular Nicola Sturgeon’s ass as she becomes the new sacred cow. I don’t see
an effigy of Sturgeon getting the same treatment because it is unlikely she
will become a force with her student politics second rate delivery.
In the spirit of being petty, someone has lodged a complaint
with the East Sussex Police.
A Sussex Police statement said:
"We are aware of the portrayal of Scottish First
Minister Alex Salmond as an effigy at the 2014 Lewes Bonfire event and
acknowledge that concerns have been raised. Whilst we accept there is a long
tradition of creating effigies of high-profile individuals in politics, sport,
the media, etc, a complaint has nevertheless been received and will be
investigated."
In the end Fireworks were stuck up its arse to destroy it, works for me!
In the end Fireworks were stuck up its arse to destroy it, works for me!
Yours sincerely
GeorgeLaird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
5 comments:
This comes from the you couldn't make it up school of outrage. A bunch of numpties offended by everything .
The toddler tantrums of the 45 (37.7) are simply an embarrassment to Scotland and the majority of grown up Scots who voted No in September, The fact that the SNP encourage their ridiculous behaviour only serves to prove that they are unfit to run a bath never mind a country.
HA HA better than still game tonight Georgieboy,once again like a hellfire missile,laird on target
Crookie
I even read in the Daily Mail that Mhari Hunter had a tweet on the subject. Well you'd expect that from a childish, chip on the shoulder natz wouldn't you.
Dear Sherbie
"I even read in the Daily Mail that Mhari Hunter had a tweet on the subject. Well you'd expect that from a childish, chip on the shoulder natz wouldn't you".
To show how bad Mhairi Hunter is you would really have to meet in person, I always found her to be a real dullard.
I would prefer to watch a chimp's tea party than watch her politically, she isn't going anywhere.
Not even MP or MSP material in my mind, neither was anyone else I met in her family.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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