Dear All
It appears that there is something possibly wrong with the
tap water in the residence of Scotland ’s
‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond.
Although the Scottish National Party is adapt at trying to
re-write history to make them look good; sometimes people take the joke too
far.
Alex Salmond leaves the office of First Minister as a
political failure.
He lost the Scottish independence referendum because he was
stupid, ignorant and small minded. Although he and others managed to cover up
for several years their failures as Ministers of the Crown, Scotland isn’t
a better country for it.
Law and Order, Health and Education, the big three are all a
shambles. During Salmond’s time as First Minister, he was shown to be less than
capable of delivering on fairness, equality and social justice for all.
He could argue however, he did deliver that to his clique.
Salmond has become more and more deluded; he claims he could
have prevented the Royal Bank of Scotland from collapsing prior to
the economic crash. This does beg the question, given his position in politics,
the head of a political party which does continual research on economic, how
did they all miss it?
Could Salmond have prevented the economic crash?
Hardly, he was writing to Fred Goodwin urging him to press
ahead with the disastrous ABN Amro takeover.
It is a bit like urging someone to pour more petrol on the
fire which is out of control; RBS dug themselves a hole, and thought they could
keep digging to get them out the other side.
For Alex Salmond to claim he could have saved the Royal Bank
of Scotland
if he had remained working there is utter nonsense, he had a job for a while as
one of the bank’s oil economists. He has suggested he could have stopped RBS
pursuing the high-risk expansionist business model, and we are to believe the
executives would have bought into this and thereby stopped themselves pocketing
massive bonuses as they played out their paper game.
When things finally went tits up, the bank had to have a £46
billion bail-out by the UK
taxpayer, if Scotland
had been independent, the bank couldn’t have been saved. This idea that Salmond
has that he is a mastermind is pathetic, he is opportunist, his track record of
political failure is by his own hand, he also benefited by the stupidity of
others in this case the Labour Party who failed to deliver for the people of
Scotland coupled with the Westminster expenses scandal, this effectively done
them in.
As he leaves office on Wednesday, Salmond wants to paint
himself as new broom for his possible future Westminster return; to that end he is giving
a series of tabloid interviews.
In true small man fashion, he accused the BBC of helping the
Unionists win the independence referendum. Grudge, grievance and malcontent
pours out of him like an open sewer, the people of Scotland killed off
Salmond’s referendum idea, his and the SNP’s vision was rejected.
The BBC gave the SNP an easy ride in interview after
interview.
His delusion on refusing to accept that the risks to the
economy and the pound shows he was never in a position to deliver independence,
he dug his political grave by lying and deception.
Opposition parties have since accused him of a “ludicrous
attempt to rewrite history”, especially homing in on the RBS bid and the letter
Salmond wrote to Fred Goodwin in 2007.
At the time, he said:
“It is in Scottish interests for RBS to be successful and I
would like to offer any assistance my office can provide. Good luck with the
bid.”
While people were sensing something was going wrong economically
and calling for tougher regulations, it was the same year Salmond took the
opposite view and called for lighter regulation of the banking and financial
services sectors.
The UK
has been said by people such as Max Keiser of the Keiser Report to be the
centre for fraud in the Western world.
And I doubt many could agree with that sentiment.
Jackson Carlaw, the Scottish Conservative deputy leader,
said:
“It is to the world's regret that this view he could have
been the saviour of RBS didn’t come to mind when he wrote the infamous ‘gain
yersel’ letter to Fred Goodwin. It goes without saying that the First Minister
has an ego, but this latest claim is absolutely staggering and utterly
risible.”
Willie Rennie, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, added:
“Alex Salmond’s ludicrous attempt to rewrite history over
his support of RBS’ exploits is dealt a fatal blow by his own pen.”
As news of Salmond’s attempt to re-write history unfolded,
people took to twitter to rip the utter pish out of him, mockery and derision pour
out on Twitter, with Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader, saying:
“If he was on Apollo 13 they’d have landed on the moon.”
Since he didn’t land on the moon, it now appears he is
howling at the moon, what a piece of luck for unpopular Nicola Sturgeon having such
a loose cannon making rather stupid statements.
On twitter, I noted he couldn’t save the right to a fair
trial in a government that he personally controlled, so the idea he could save
a bank from collapse is risible.
I think the expression…. ‘Bam’ has real currency here.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
2 comments:
Georgie boy do you think he has actually gone mad?
yours
Crookie
Dear Crookie
Acting like a loon, probably upset at losing indy and now FM, no grassroots surge asking him to stay.
It is sinking in, he is yesterday's man in tomorrow's world.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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