Dear All
SNP Minister Mike Russell is a politically dead man walking,
he hasn’t the good grace to lie down, die and put us out of his misery.
He is in effect a zombie held up by Alex Salmond after
taking too many hits, some of which are self inflicted.
When this deadbeat got control of education, he never stood
up for his brief and more importantly stood up Scots.
80,000 Scots have lost out on college places due to him
being inept and incompetent.
The regionalisation of colleges is stupid, ill-judged,
ill-timed and frankly worthy of the deepest contempt.
College jobs are being lost, he didn’t save them.
Where was he when he should have been fighting for these people?
AWOL, desertion of his post because he is a few pages short
of a jotter?
In order to try and save his miserable pathetic career, Russell
is today at the centre of a new row, this time involving an agency overseen by
fellow SNP ministers.
To try and take the heat off him, he is focussing on alleged
“maladministration and negligence” within the Scottish Government. This relates
to a ferry service operating in the Firth of Clyde.
Mr Russell, an Argyll and Bute MSP, has backed calls for an
investigation.
One can only wonder if this is an artificial row created to
show him standing up for Scots, Russell is English.
The false flag operation is nothing new in politics, and
given the state of Russell’s career which has sunk, he is desperate now.
Russell has written to the Scottish Public Services
Ombudsman, which investigates complaints against public bodies. The upshot of
this is him saying he “fully supports” a demand that it should look into
Transport Scotland
Funnily enough, this government agency reports to Deputy
First Minister and Infrastructure Secretary Nicola Sturgeon and Transport
Secretary Keith Brown.
That is why I can’t take his complaint seriously at all.
Russell says he is acting on request of a member of the Dunoon
Gourock Ferry Action Group.
The Dunoon Gourock Ferry Action Group has asked the
Ombudsman to examine alleged “negligence, maladministration and system failure”
at Transport Scotland
The strategy to win independence is to try and buy it.
Gordon Blair, an SNP councillor for Cowal and secretary of
the action group, said:
“It’s not only the current SNP administration, there’s been
misinformation through several administrations in the way it’s all been done.
When you look at the vessels they have operating on these routes, you have to
ask how on earth they were deemed appropriate for the weather we have got.”
Blair also gives credence that this ‘infighting’ is phoney
by claiming there was a rift between government ministers and Transport Scotland
“Civil servants need to be working with the elected
representatives and have their fingers more tightly on the pulse.”
In other words this looks a fake row manufactured so that Russell,
Sturgeon and Brown can after the hot air and fake outrage is done, come
together under the banner of standing up for Scots.
If they were standing up for Scots, why are they stripping
budgets to fund capital projects?
Labour MSP Duncan McNeil said:
“This is more evidence of drift at the heart of the Scottish
Government”.
McNeil added:
“If the SNP was more
focussed on the day job, rather than obsessed with the referendum, then perhaps
this bizarre situation could have been avoided. It is perverse that the
Ombudsman is being used to settle scores between ministers.”
This isn’t a row, it is a stage show, let them play out
their little piece of theatre; no one is coming to see that ‘performance’.
Scottish Liberal Democrat transport spokesman Tavish Scott
added:
“The Scottish Government's omnishambles continues. On one
hand, Mr Russell is happy to back an inquiry into his own government over
mismanagement of the Dunoon-Gourock ferry line but, on the other, he has
blocked an inquiry into his own mismanagement of Scotland
This latest episode of Mike Russell, English fighter for
Scots is pathetic!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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