Dear All
They say with age comes wisdom, if you look
at the track record of some former politicians, age just ushers in stupidity. I
am constantly amazed how people like Malcolm Chisholm, a former Scottish Labour
minister get selected in the first place. Chisholm says that Scottish independence
is “inevitable” if the UK elects another Conservative Government.
This is the spectre of a Boris Johnson
premiership!
Given the state of Scottish Labour and the
Labour Party in general, it is possible that the next government could be a
Conservative one, equally likely, it is highly possible that the next
government could be operating in a hung parliament. The sands of politics have
shifted, just as the SNP have little opposition in Scotland, the Brexit Party
could see their fortunes rise in England. This will be at the expense of the
Labour heartlands in the North of England which voted solid Brexit.
Chisholm also says that he may well vote
Yes himself to Scottish independence, if he thinks that a bogeyman will scare
people back to Labour Party to continue the old two party system, he is misjudging
what is going on in politics. Our political system on both sides of the border
is broken.
Trust between the people and the political class
is broken which show the spectacular rise of the Brexit Party in such a short
time, they cashed in on an emotional and angry public which has been failed.
Our political class is ebbing support day by day because the people who elected
them have been neglected by them. Another failed experiment has been the rise of
Multiculturalism, coupled with destructive identity politics chanting the
mantra of discrimination in order to secure power.
People don’t believe that politicians will
make people’s lives better whether it be health, education or community.
As to Malcolm Chisholm, who was health
minister in the early years of devolution, he thinks Brexit and the state
of the Conservatives had given “a great impetus” to the independence movement.
He wrong thinks a minor surge means progress, while the same lack of a surge
towards the Labour Party must be the cause of lack of support. In parroting the
Sturgeon line, he said:
“Faced with Boris Johnson or
Jeremy Hunt, who’s not much better, and Brexit and the possibility of a
no-deal, a lot of people are thinking ‘What is the point of staying connected
to that?’”
So, what Conservative leader is acceptable
to Malcolm Chisholm?
The answer appears to be none, and if it is
none, his own scaremongering tactics are just pitiful, naturally the SNP jumped
in to say that this nonsense by Chisholm is a "significant
intervention" from a respected figure.
Horseshit!
Polls go up and down; a new one is showing support
for independence at 49 per cent because of uncertainty down south over who will
lead the UK government. The constant doom and gloom being spewed out by the SNP
and their allies has had an effect, but what they aren’t telling you is the
future!
Because they don’t know the future, they
just try to engineer their views on a public which is bombarded with fake news
by them.
Chisholm told the press;
“I would go as far as to say if we have
continuing Conservative governments independence will become
inevitable. I might in future vote for independence but it would totally depend
on what the situation was and what the alternatives on offer were in terms of
the UK. If we had continuing Conservative government I think Scotland would
vote for independence and I think I would as well - but that’s quite a big
‘if’.”
So, he would consider max austerity as a
solution to Scotland’s problems?
How exactly does that help anyone?
Ask yourself this, SNP leader Nicola
Sturgeon says that Scotland is a rich country, and in the same breath says that
austerity budgets will be needed for circa decade, both propositions cannot be
true.
What the SNP is offering is not
independence, however they are offering poverty, they are offering cutting
services, health, education and council, they are offering to be ruled by
Brussels so they can get plugged into the European political network. And while
they hatch and scheme, the people of Scotland will suffer but that won’t affect
them with their taxpayer funded lifestyles.
Chisholm says that devolution had caused
"almost inevitable momentum towards more power" for the
Scottish Parliament. He added it meant the "only two futures for
Scotland" were either greater powers or independence.
He said:
“The only question is whether it stops at
some sort of enhanced devolution or devo max or whether it goes towards
independence. Those are the only two futures for Scotland now really. I think
independence is likely anyway because of the way people under 50 vote, but I
think a Corbyn kind of government that was actually achieving what it set out
to achieve would certainly delay that process - whereas if we have a
Conservative government elected - whoever is leader - at the next election, I
would say independence is pretty inevitable.”
The Panelbase poll for the Sunday Times
prompted pollster Professor Sir John Curtice to comment at the weekend:
“It seems that the days when unionists
could claim with confidence that Scots do not want another independence
referendum any time soon may have come to an end.”
The reason for why we are in this state is
the sorry state of the opposition parties who haven’t got their act together.
They aren’t offering a vision, they aren’t appealing to the working classes who
have been left behind; they aren’t producing real policies of note. Is it any
wonder that a surge happens, I think not!
But let us return to reality for a minute,
the SNP claim support and momentum which doesn’t really exist, for example they
raged on lack of Scottish content by the BBC, a long campaign. The BBC gave
them their wish a ‘Scottish’ channel, 21 of the new BBC Scotland Programmes had
NO viewers. Another interesting bit of reality is Scots outside the
central belt ‘failed by devolution’. A new television documentary on 20 years
of devolution suggests the Scottish Parliament has focused too much on the
Central Belt and failed to do enough for people in Scotland’s more distant
geographical locations.
Finally, age hasn’t brought wisdom to Malcolm
Chisholm but he did manage to cause a stir by talking up nonsense. The reality
is Brexit is going to happen, the Labour Party needs to get on board with that
concept. In Scotland, the Scottish Labour Party needs to go down the road of
getting it acts together for a ‘cull’ like they did at Glasgow City Council,
they also need to be reformed, but not by the same people who led to its
decline. People will come back to Labour if they can trust the party, trust the
elected people and have a vision, it isn’t rocket science.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
2 comments:
Hi George. Do you think idiots like Malcolm Chisholm could force another referendum?
Dear anon
No chance under his power.
George
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