Dear All
Firstly, happy New Year, sorry I am rather
late in getting that out, but better late than never.
Secondly, I have been rather quiet on the
blogging and twitter front of late, the reason is I am seriously ill, in
December, I was emergency admitted to hospital. Being in hospital is certainly
an experience I don’t wish on anyone.
I was very lucky as for the most part the
staff were great as was my GP who effectively saved my life, I was dying; my
internal organs were all shutting down and I was in agony.
I have since been stablised and ordered to
take it easy; I am still not out of the woods yet.
That being said, I have missed out on what
has been going on for the last three months, anyway back to blogging, but just
for today.
Kenny MacAskill has been sacked as Justice
Minister, I said this should happen; unpopular Nicola Sturgeon is only two
years behind me.
Mike Russell has been sacked as Education
Minister, I also said this should happen; unpopular Nicola Sturgeon is only two
years behind me there also.
Both of these incompetents had to be fired,
so, George Laird right again, the first ‘George Laird right again’ of 2015.
Now, onto current, SNP MPs will vote on
English health matters in the next parliament, while in the SNP, I spoke out
that SNP MPs should be playing a full and proper role in the Westminster Parliament.
Now, the SNP has came round to the George Laird view but for the wrong reasons.
Unpopular Nicola Sturgeon, yet again, years
behind George Laird thinking, this U turn by the SNP isn’t about doing the
right thing in the interest of English patients; it is all about positioning
her party for a possible deal to prop up a minority Labour government.
I seriously doubt Ed Miliband would offer a
deal as it seems highly unlikely and would undermined Scottish Labour.
Westminster parties cannot and should not
enter into any deals with the SNP, although they might consider this as a short
term fix, in the long term, it would be storing up trouble on both sides of the
border.
The independence campaign will be remembered
for the defeat of Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond, but also for the
anti English campaign which was run in Scotland. One should ask if as the Nationalists
claim everything is the fault of the English, then why are they voting with
them?
The SNP need a deal from any unionist party
to try and push for devo max by holding a gun to Westminster’s head!
This election in 2015 could be very
difficult for the unionist parties as they are all acting like losers.
Labour voted in Jim Murphy, he is supposed
to be a new broom, but Labour needs more than someone who drinks irn bru and
can stand on a couple of plastic crates.
People need a vote reason to vote Labour,
Murphy’s 100 day tour was great for him in terms of publicity for him, but in
the wider sense, it done nothing, the people of Scotland won the Scottish
independence debate not Jim Murphy.
When he and others wake up to that reality,
maybe they will get their act together, a bad election in 2015, will be the precursor
of an even worse one in 2016.
Opinion polls at present look bad for
unionist parties, and in particular the Labour Party who stand to lose seats.
Perhaps Team Murphy will have to find out
the hard way that ‘gimmicks’ don’t works and also that the New Labour revival
plans will really died a painful death at the ballot box if they think business
as usual.
Scots Tory leader Ruth Davidson who may not
have a single MP after the 2015 election said:
"The SNP had previously taken a
principled stance on this matter but it now seems principle goes out the window
if it means stitching together a coalition deal with Labour
"We need to be clear - the price of
that SNP deal would be to put our defences at risk and tear up the stable tax
and spend system which keeps Britain's economy secure.
"It also risks letting independence in
by the back door."
Although the SNP were defeated at the
indyref, what we should all remember is that they didn’t work very well together.
Better Together ran an operational poor campaign on the ground.
In simple terms it was like they couldn’t
give a rat’s arse, well now they are paying for it, as to the Smith Commission,
that was a betrayal of Scots who vote No.
Well done the Tories….. not!
Yes, that really was non strategic
thinking, Professor Adam Tomkins spoke of the hell of that campaign, well, does
he has transport because he and others might be making a return visit.
The SNP aren’t interested in helping
English people, this really comes down to a ploy to stoke up resentment to fuel
demands for "English Votes for English Laws".
Wakey wakey people, collectively the
unionist parties should jointly say in an official statement there will be no
deals with the SNP prior to the 2015 election.
Make the SNP what they really are irrelevant.
Oh and again sorry for being away so long, which I have to do so again, back in about two weeks hopefully.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
