Dear All
Many commentators have said that Alex Salmond had become a
parody of himself, in the past as First Minister; he seemed to be able to do no
wrong. After losing in 2014, Salmond ended up as a bit of a crank who couldn’t
keep his mouth shut. Out of the limelight as First Minister, the direction of
travel was downwards. First, shipped off to Westminster to give unpopular Nicola Sturgeon
a clear run of being out of his shadow, the clock was ticking towards defeat.
When Alex Salmond and a host of others lost their seats, the
look on the faces of the SNP at the Glasgow
count was priceless, in two short years, historic victory had turned very sour.
Glasgow was
thought to be secure, but the reality on the night turned out to be different.
One seat was to fall and two others were less than 100 votes away from
collapse. The majority of the work however was done by the SNP in their inept
management of the government and the campaigns.
It seemed the idea was that a ‘message’ wasn’t needed just
say SNP to the punters and they will come out and vote. As Professor John
Curtice, the election guru said, and I agree, independence isn’t enough for SNP
voters.
People are sick to death of referendums, and as the polling
shows, they are sick to death of Nicola Sturgeon. To see Nicola Sturgeon walk
into the Glasgow count, put on the fake smile
for the cameras was equally priceless, especially since I had helped crack Glasgow to get Paul
Sweeney into public office. Although he and others doubted the task, it was the
biggest SNP swing in the last election, I thought different. I knew the area
since I was ‘Campaign Rooms Manager’ (promoted) for the SNP in 2009, David
Kerr’s by-election. David was a good candidate but in the wrong seat, totally,
that campaign was well run but the work needed by the CLP in the area was
really poor over years.
Nicola Sturgeon has squandered the goodwill that Alex
Salmond managed to build up with his ‘jolly fat man’ routine, 2015 wasn’t
Sturgeon’s victory, it was all done on the back of Salmond and 2012 onwards.
Since the independence referendum, Nicola Sturgeon has run an inept government.
A government which has failed to address issues, failing to lead, and
constantly making bad decisions, everything Sturgeon touches turns to disaster,
I have said this before in the past, still true now!
Nicola Sturgeon was portrayed in a comedy as a ‘horrible
cow’, so how did the writers probably in London
tap into what the women of Govan and Govanhill think? It is easy to explain,
the mask that Nicola Sturgeon puts up slips on a regular basis, the eyes don’t
lie. There is an angry wee Nat sitting in the office of First Minister who is
full of grievance and bile.
It is amusing to see Nicola Sturgeon reacting angrily to
claims she is “in denial” about the impact of the general election result. The
reality is that her plans for a second independence referendum have been
severely damaged. Brexit will come and go in due course, Sturgeon wouldn’t get
a seat at the Brexit talks and there will not be a second independence
referendum in this Westminster Parliament. This Parliament is thought by some
to be going the distance, the full five years.
To show how rattled Sturgeon is the latest series of
breakfast time Tweets are a hoot, she has a bunker mentality, lashing out and
being in denial, she failed to discuss how Brexit affects the independence bid with
the Scottish Cabinet on Tuesday. Her take is that she would “not be dictated to
by demands for quick headlines”. This is from a woman who jumps from one short
term vision to another like stepping stones in a river. The press paint
Sturgeon as some kind of superwoman, the fact is the image is just a façade
like the SNP crafted ‘caring’ image.
Sturgeon lost a third of her MPs amid a Unionist
backlash against a second referendum which really angered people, enough is
enough, and she kicked the hornet’s nest, obviously there would be a reaction.
Nicola Sturgeon said she got into politics because of Thatcher, how ironic is
it that by her own stupidity that she was partly responsible for the return of
Conservatives in Scotland ,
13 MPs in fact.
The opposition have been quick off the mark to claim
Sturgeon is in denial and failing to face reality about the voters' verdict on
her core policy. And with the effectively snubbed her cabinet in favour of
talking to a tiny cabal of closer advisers shows the ‘big tent’ SNP is very
much smaller than some people think. The cabal is said to have included deputy
First Minister John Swinney, Brexit minister Michael Russell, and special adviser
Ewan Crawford, not exactly a gathering of mensa.
It seems that finance and constitution secretary Derek
Mackay, who helped run the SNP’s election campaign wasn’t invited to the top-level
discussions on the constitution. Derek Mackay is a clown, so I suspect that
there were no plans for entertainment being laid on. The SNP leadership is a
clique, I wrote about this many years ago, and if you are a member then you can
easily see this if you are in the party. The clique lives in their own little
bubble, and they don’t listen which explains the lack of depth in SNP thinking.
Shortly after 8am on Wednesday, Ms Sturgeon took to Twitter
to attack the media, that would be the ‘Yoon Media’, One thing ‘daft arse’
should have learned in politics is that you don’t attack the messenger, but
there she is making a fool of herself.
She wrote:
“Most of media speculation about #ScotRef is nonsense. I'll
set out way forward in due course after talking to people across @theSNP.
“I'll take decisions in best interests, not just of @theSNP,
but of Scotland...and not be dictated to by demands for quick
headlines!
“In meantime, @scotgov will focus on trying to influence
Brexit talks - a Tory led hard Brexit is simply not acceptable post #GE2017.”
Influence the Brexit talks?
Has Sturgeon bought a loudhailer, is she going to stand
outside and hope they hear her through an open window?
The SNP lost 21 of the 56 seats it won in 2015, its vote
collapsed from 50 to 37 per cent, the worst electoral reverse for an SNP leader
since 1979.
How did the success of 2015 turn so quickly for Nicola
Sturgeon?
Failure to deliver!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at 
6 comments:
She could have shut her mouth and analysed the Brixit result. Told the Scottish public that she accepts the UK wide referendum and will do her utmost to get the best result for us. She would have shown us Scots her leadership capabilities. Instead of taking this golden opportunity and using it to benefit Scotland the SNP and her credentials, she acted like a raving lunatic - the photograph of her dressed in that ill fitting skirt, clenching her fist after the meeting with the PM, was an embarrassment to Scotland. It should not be the DUP in king position, it could have been the SNP. She really is a bampot. She is not fit to be our FM. As far as Alex is concerned, he has destroyed his own legacy by encouraging her to act like a psychiatric patient out for the weekend. Surely he had some power over her. He's brought it all on himself.
Hello George
Many congratulations on the results you got in your campaigning in this election. You helped to torpedo the snp ship of fools.
Theresa May seems to have allowed herself to be persuaded to reverse her previous statement that she would not call an election by her intrepid "advisers". She then seems to have allowed them to write a catastrophic manifesto without consultation. These two charlies seem to have relied on "the polls". Big mistake.
On the plus side, the result in Scotland was way better than I hoped. I thought we might manage to lose around 10 snp bimbos. Ridding ourselves of 21, including fatman thin is bloody marvellous.
I heard that the Unionist parties have put down an amendment to a "government" motion at Holyrood calling on sturgeon to drop her ongoing campaign for indyref 2. If this is correct, the nipster will have to decide on her position sooner rather than later.
In any event, the long awaited snp death spiral seems to be well and truly under way now.
In the meantime, the snp are clearly fucked and we can, at long last, look forward to their losing power at the next Holyrood election, if not before.
Hoowah!
Auld Jock
Sturgeons' continued demands for a seat at the brexit table are as wearisome as they are predictable. Her spoilt brat attitude would ensure that her seat would have a flip over tray and a wipe clean surface!!!
She's like a broken record or modern day Violet Elizabeth Botts giving it I'll scream and scream if I don't get my way. As you say not to be trusted the remark during the election to Kezia Dugdale proved it, she was either telling porkies or shattered her credibility in keeping any sort of discussion private. I doubt anyone will talk to her without the phone being recorded.
That was one of the best articles I've read in a while George. The bit about the loud hailer outside the window had me chuckling.
You're spot on with everything you said here.
Great stuff!
Paul
The sooner that spoilt BRAT is thrown out, along with Murrell, the better. Both are a waste of oxygen.
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