Dear All
The European elections have produced a
rollercoaster ride on both sides of the Scottish border, in Scotland; the
Blairite plotters want to seize the moment to call for the resignation of
Richard Leonard as Scottish Labour leader.
They are asking him to consider his
position!
The plotters have a spokesman in Labour MP Ian
Muarry, he cannot be described as a Corbyn fan, in any way shape or form.
Johanna Baxter wants an emergency meeting of the Scottish Labour Executive
Committee to discuss and address the causes of their worst electoral result in
living memory. Anas Sarwar popped up to say the exact same thing as Baxter
citing that fewer than 1 in 20 could go out and vote for us.
Will Richard Leonard consider his position?
Although the Corbyn faction holds the reins
of leadership, there isn’t an obvious successor waiting around in their ranks, so
I doubt it that Richard Leonard will resign.
The Labour Party in Scotland is still
fighting the election contest between Anas Sarwar and Richard Leonard.
Now, on to comedy, after the Euro result, Nicola
Sturgeon has confirmed indyref2 legislation will be tabled this week in Holyrood.
This is a joke, no matter what is passed, the UK government is not going to
grant a Section 30 order, so the legislation is meaningless in terms of what it
is trying to achieve.
So, what is the objective of the
legislation?
The SNP are trying to create the perfect
storm in order to try and win an outright majority in Holyrood as they did in
2011 under Alex Salmond. They want to go into that election attempting to
generate a greater sense of grievance with the Scottish public. Their tactic is
rather transparent, whip up the mob, deflect from their appalling record in
government and spend the next few years solely talking about independence.
You might even see the SNP squander public
money on a Supreme Court challenge using taxpayer money. Apparently Sturgeon’s
plan is to be held in the current parliamentary term, adding that the
"latter half" of next year would be the "right time".
So, basically Nicola Sturgeon will spend an
entire year and a half talking about denial of democracy; note her timing,
latter half of next year for them to kick off their election campaign. Whoever
is the new Prime Minister going forward post Theresa May will not be allowing
any referendums and there will be no general election until 2022.
All this charade is about is to get Nicola
Sturgeon past 2021 and secure another term as First Minister, at that point she
will probably have enough Scottish Roubles in the bank that she can step down
as SNP leader.
Scottish Roubles are so important for the
women who don’t have job opportunities in Fortune 500 companies coming their
way.
One thing that Nicola Sturgeon said in
Dublin that the SNP win was a "historic and spectacular victory" in
the European elections, it wasn’t, it came on the back of the mainstream
parties’ utter refusal to honour their promise on Brexit, not by any crafted
debate the SNP came up with.
The fact is that the SNP vote share is
still falling in elections!
The newly formed Brexit Party came second
in Scotland, with 14.8% of the vote, giving the party one Scottish MEP,
Louis Stedman-Bryce. Tonight I am attending a talk given by MEP Lucy Harris and
Suzann Evans in Glasgow at the Leavers of Britain meet up. The talk will no
doubt be a thank you to those who took part in the Brexit Party campaign and
delivered a Scottish MEP for the Brexit Party. If anything is said of interest,
I might do a blog on the event but to me this is probably a meet and greet
event.
Conservative Chief Whip Maurice Golden said
of the SNP victory:
“The SNP went into this election pretending
to voters that it was nothing to do with independence. Yet within hours of it
being announced, Nicola Sturgeon is specifically using it to argue for
separation. That’s fraudulent behaviour from an SNP government that’s meant to
be running the country, not trying to break it up. Voters punished Nicola
Sturgeon last time she abused the Brexit process for her own selfish aims. They
will do so again if this hypocritical deceit continues.”
Finally, it rather seems that the SNP
benefit solely due to the failures of others, and as events unfold, the SNP
will also experience failure, the clock is ticking on Nicola Sturgeon, her main
problem is the ‘enemy from within’. Yes, the good old Salmond faction will be
keen to get their pound of flesh. Like a seed the anti Sturgeon faction in the
SNP is starting to grow, you can expect bitter infighting, leaking and dissent
to come out. Then like a gusher if Salmond gets back in the party, it will be
full flood.
So, what do you think of Nicola Sturgeon’s
escape plan?
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
3 comments:
Pish.
William Bryan your comments are simply unfounded. After reading such a well researched, decisive blog I have to say the contents are not simply push but utter and complete push. And this guy is at the same Uni as I went to . The education system is obviously gone to rats.
We've still got a certain court case to come this year. The result of that could topple her, with any luck.
Not been here for a while George. Great to see you're still posting away.
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