Dear All
If you think back to what I and others have
said about the SNP, it is a cult, a party within a party made up primarily of 4
sub groups, Sein Fein lite, LGBT, Muslims and the rich. All headed and fronted by
someone who uses the cult of personality as their instrument to exercise total
control.
If you are not a member of the cult, you
are not a member of the cult, that doesn’t mean you can interact with them, but
you are seen as someone to ‘used’, whether that be as a foot soldier or an outsider
who supports a cult idea. The SNP don’t work well or play well with others,
they don’t build bridges; they use and attempt to subjugate people into groups.
The old saying of ‘divide and rule’ applies!
The problem with the Citizen Assembly is
that the SNP couldn’t allow the body to be a non-partisan assembly of ordinary
Scottish citizens because if you discuss problems, you by default have to talk
about who caused the problems. As the SNP has been the devolved government in
Scotland for over a decade; the injustices, whether it be health, education or
social come right back to their door. When I was an SNP member, I saw close up
how they operated when it came to responsibility, the ‘leaders’ would foster
their work onto someone else.
This is why the SNP is and always will remain
a party of protest and not of government, the day job comes last. Government
maybe their meal ticket in terms of perks and money but it is a bother, a
part-time exercise, something to be done as quickly as possible. Then they can ‘party’,
network and get their ‘selfies’ while standing up for various aspects of
identity politics, while they engineer their place as a defender of rights.
The truth is that they in practice aren’t
defender of rights but rather a sinister crowd who practice oppression using
the resources and funding of the State. If you are a charity, you have to bow
to the SNP or see your funding cut or dry up….. as if by magic.
The fate of the proposed Citizens Assembly
is now in doubt, there is no cross party support as the Conservatives and Lib
Dems are out for boycotting it. The Assembly is seen as a propaganda unit for a
second Scottish independence referendum after SNP MP Joanna Cherry opened her
big gub to vent. In some respects, the Citizen Assembly is much like the SNP’s
National Assembly which I attended on 4th September 2010 in Perth,
round table discussions to look at policy ideas.
I pushed for Police Scotland and a national
Fire Service, but my main focus was Police Scotland at that meeting, with my
trusty ham sandwiches and cans of pepsi, I set off for Perth. As the SNP don’t
work well with others, and also as they don’t do the ‘day job’, is it a
surprise that the SNP made a mess of the planned Citizens Assembly?
I would say; not a surprise but par for the
course.
The SNP really at the heart of the cult,
don’t want ordinary people gathering information on the biggest issues facing
the nation. They don’t want information that would then be used to guide both
parliament and the people on the best way forward unless they are the
instigator of the ideas. They have to be centre stage, they have to take all
the credit and they are so insecure that only they can hold the limelight. These traits exhibit should in some respect
explain the lack of quality legislation which comes out of the Scottish
Parliament and Government.
Holyrood is 20 years old, but the
institution is a failure, in terms of vision, output and leadership. There is
no going forward together as a nation under the SNP, there is an ‘us or them’
mentality which haunts everything they do.
In late February, I laughed as SNP MP
Joanna Cherry wrote in favour of CAs. She said that “Citizens Assemblies could
be used to great effect as Scotland moves towards its second independence
referendum”, and that “Citizens Assemblies would have a transformative potential
in the independence debate”.
Her cat out of the bag comments completely
destroyed the credibility of the Citizens Assembly and damaged the reputation
of former Labour MEP David Martin because she created a stigma about it. David
Martin has since attempted to defend the idea but the idea is now damaged
beyond repair. Anything that it produces will be seen through the prism of it
being an SNP idea.
Does anyone seriously believe the assembly
will be independent of government?
That it will be open, balanced,
transparent, and inclusive?
Naw to the first and naw to the second,
especially when you think back that SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon unveiled her plans
for an assembly while revealing her intention to pursue a second independence
referendum before 2021.
No referendum before 2021, just like there
will be no Westminster General Election before 2022, well anyone with any sense
in this country won’t be wanting to go to the polls early while there is such
flux in politics at the UK level.
Brexit is the on;y political game in town,
it dominates all political thinking in the UK.
If I was in the business of offering advice
to co-convener of the assembly, former Labour MEP David Martin, it would be to
bail out, and that same advice would also apply to Dr Oliver Escobar, the
Scottish Government’s adviser.
You don’t sell’ damaged goods’ as ‘new’
when you know that everyone knows it is damaged. The main and underlining problem is that no
matter how hard David Martin and others try, the damage is done and the assembly
is utterly tarnished in some people’s eyes as another wing of the SNP.
Just like Yes Scotland!
I wrote about Yes Scotland as ‘run by the
SNP, staffed by the SNP for the benefit of the SNP’ back in the day. Then like
now, the SNP fronted that organization with another former Labour politician,
how things don’t change in the SNP mindset. The SNP don’t have ideas, they just
rehash and repackage the same ones under different packaging, fronted by
different people but the goal is always the same, allowing them to control
power either directly or indirectly.
Finally, you should read up on the cult of
personality, then you will understand the SNP better.
Then look at the tenure of Salmond and that
of Sturgeon, now what do you see? Do you see people who are open, balanced,
transparent, and inclusive?
Of course you don’t!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
3 comments:
Appreciate this post. Let me try it out.
Wonder how they will cope next year. I think sturgeon is finished by next summer. Many reasons behind this but principally in my view that she has no charisma. I think Cherry will succeed her. I can't stand her, as she is arrogant piece of work. I can't see any of the snp's core leadership having the ability to move forward. The exception is Alex Neil, but I think he's upset too many of the SNP to succeed.
Do you think they will get a referendum after 2021?
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