Dear All
Awhile ago, Robert Redford did a rather
charming movie called the ‘Horse Whisper’ about a young girl and a horse injured
in an accident.
It seems that from ‘Horsewhisper’ we now
have in the present day the ‘Horse Whipper’ in the form of Scotland’s unpopular
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon who is whipping a dead horse on EU
membership beyond death now.
As the angry wee Nat continues to whip, whip and more whip the
dead horse in the hope that somehow life will return to it, what must any
reasonable nationalist think, it’s pathetic and it’s embarrassing.
Nicola Sturgeon is now being asked the
Labour Party in Scotland to "get on with her day job", after it
emerged she was heading to Brussels to address a think-tank.
The subject is the process Scottish
independence.
After being rebuffed by the EU, Ms.
Sturgeon wants to try and create the appearance of a dialogue is happening
between the Scottish Government and Europe so Scottish people think they are
dealing with the membership problem that Scotland has.
But the truth is, she, Alex Salmond and the
Scottish Government are just wasting their time, burning up resources and not
being effective in the independence campaign.
Ms. Sturgeon is speaking at the European
Policy Centre on how Scotland would become a full EU member in the event of a
Yes vote next year.
Labour whip James Kelly said:
"The minister should be at home trying
to create jobs for the 11,000 Scots no longer in work. Europe for the SNP is
the hole Nicola can't stop digging and she would be better getting on with the
day job."
It is quite dishonest politics by the SNP
Government to try and engage directly with key EU players after being rebuffed
by European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso last month. No matter how
many attempts made by Nicola Sturgeon, the bottom line is failure.
Nothing can or will happen until the
referendum vote in 2014, and poll after poll shows that the ‘positive’ message
being sold by Salmond and Sturgeon is not appealing.
Trust is an issue, and the SNP Government
is losing the trust of ordinary working class Scots, not just on the EU but also
in key areas of devolved government such as Health, Law and Order, and
Education.
In health at the weekend another NHS health
scandal erupted which again appears to lead by to Nicola Sturgeon’s tenure at
health as opposition parties claim the SNP cover up.
In a knee jerk response to the latest
crisis in accident and emergency departments in Scotland’s NHS, patients were
being left waiting for hours on cold trolleys, money was pumped in, a face saving exercise.
Health is no longer a flagship SNP policy.
This continual beating of a dead horse must
stop, her continued farce of what represents negotiation would see her and
Salmond unstuck as she says:
"Our intention to remain outside
Schengen, retain the pound and keep Scotland's share of the UK rebate will
simply be a confirmation of the status quo in terms of our relationship with
the EU."
She can’t get a share of the rebate as the
contract remains solely with the British Government, and she wouldn’t be able
to remain outside Schengen either, again, totally dishonest politics from an
unpopular Deputy First Minister who will say anything to the people of
Scotland.
Scotland’s EU membership if there is a
successful vote for independence, means starting from scratch, everyone knows
this, and the continual falsehood only adds to an air of mistrust which is growing
on a daily basis!
Labour MSP James Kelly is right, Nicola
Sturgeon needs to stop digging a hole on the EU, put the dead horse in the
hole and bury it deep, it’s pretty ripe now, the smell can only get worse.
Its seems that Nicola Sturgeon is wishing
to barge her way into any room that has ‘Europe’ on the door, to justify her
ill judged strategy, tax payer money wasted on another unproductive ‘jolly’.
How long will it be till Labour MSP’s put ‘Europe’
on toilet doors in Holyrood?
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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