Dear All
I can appreciate that Tommy Sheridan is
keen as mustard to re-establish himself as a respected political figure.
Granted it is an uphill task due to his
imprisonment and the fact despite enough evidence to choke a horse, he has
never said sorry for his actions.
If he had at least he would have started
back on the rocky road with the public, but it would be Everest he needs to climb
to get back on top.
Today, it is the funeral of Margaret Thatcher;
I didn’t watch it; like most occasions of this nature I am sure it gave her
family some sort of comfort.
Like her or loathe her, she is a historic figure.
Just as The Scottish Greens displayed
remarkable bad taste in wanting to hold a debate in the Scottish Parliament,
other independence supporters want to mark her passing also, again, it is the
wrong time.
So, Tommy, ‘comrade’ and ‘brother’ and a
member of the ‘right on’ PC Squad Sheridan is going to be at a rally to remember the
"industries and communities who suffered" under Baroness Thatcher.
Should those who suffered under Thatcher be
remembered?
Yes, but not today, and it can’t be a
co-incidence that the rally is going to be pretty much made up by independence
campaigners.
Another PR disaster and more evidence why
independence support is going backwards!
Some people will simply see this as the SNP
getting their ‘allies’ to try and see if they can get the public to hitch their
star to the indy bandwagon.
So, prominent left-winger Tommy Sheridan, former
MSP, who stays in a ‘big house’ that costs a right few bob will speak, so too
will indy supporting trade unionists, representatives of the steel industry and
the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
And you can add to the mix, the ex SNP MSP
Jean Urquhart, who quit the SNP in protest against the party's support for Nato
membership.
People may just conclude that this is a
proxy Yes Scotland event.
Last week more than 300 people gathered in
the Glasgow square to celebrate the death of Baroness Thatcher, most were
students not born when she was in power, they were there to celebrate the ‘death
of Thatcherism’.
What a great pity that they fail to grasp
that Thatcherism is alive and well in the Scottish National Party, the Scottish
Labour Party, the Scottish Lib Dems and the Scottish Conservatives.
Apparently they all missed that!
Ken Ross, co-organiser of today's event,
said:
"The array of speakers at the rally
will reflect the many industries and communities who suffered under Thatcher. We
will remember miners, steel workers, print workers, public sector workers and
factory and plant workers whose industries were decimated and whose livelihoods
were destroyed. We will remember those who were plunged into despair and
poverty as a direct consequence of Thatcher's heartless and barbaric policies.
This is Thatcher's real legacy."
And the legacy continued under Tony Blair
and New Labour and if you are prepared to do the work, you can see it in the
Scottish National Party.
Can Tommy Sheridan trampling on the dead
body of Margaret Thatcher use that to catapult himself back into the position
he previously held in the public’s eyes?
No!
I don’t know who advises Tommy Sheridan on
PR but they are shit at it, a lot of decent Scots won’t support this type of
event not on the day of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral it is bad taste.
It also fails spectacularly for the other
independence supporters who are joining in to this proxy Yes Scotland non sanctioned event.
Maybe Tommy Sheridan will grow up one day,
if he looks about; his party is on its arse, can’t connect with the voters and
has no seats in Glasgow at any level.
He is on the lunatic fringe and he is
attending a lunatic fringe event ‘done in the worst possible taste’, I had to
use the Kenny Everett line seemed apt.
After this event, Tommy Sheridan will
journey back to his ‘big house’ on Paisley Road West that only a rich Tory could
afford to have.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
Georse, it is as ridiculous to describe Tommy Sheridan as a rich Tory as to describe yourself as authentic working class.
ReplyDeleteAs a prominent blogger, you are clearly one of the chatterati, which means typical middle-class in today's class system.
Unless you are going to surprise us all by revealing you have a day job as a welder.