Dear All
You can’t have failed to notice that truth
and the Scottish National Party have parted company some considerable time ago.
In the Liberton/Gilmerton council
by-election, the SNP has been accused of misleading voters after issuing
leaflets which talk about an “SNP by-election”.
They are telling people they are being
asked to choose a “replacement SNP councillor”.
This is not true; it is outright deception
and shows how bad things have become in the SNP as the Scottish independence
campaign goes on.
They say that truth is the first casualty
of war, in the end, truth can put you into power, lying has its own reward.
Does the SNP deserve to win the Liberton/Gilmerton
by-election after this stunt?
No is the short answer, and it shows that
the ‘talent’ in the SNP is lacking, George Laird right again.
Voters in Liberton/Gilmerton are due to go
to the polls on June 20 to elect a new councillor following the death of the
SNP’s Tom Buchanan.
In by-elections from my experience, the
party whose member dies; can generally get its voters to turn out and return a
new member.
This contest however isn’t about a replace
SNP Councillor but is very much an open contest involving Labour, Conservatives,
Liberal Democrats, Greens, UKIP, the Pirate Party and an independent as well as
the Nationalists.
By-elections can be funny, sometimes local
issues can dominate, other times, outside influences can come to the fore.
The SNP leaflet says:
“Sadly Councillor Tom Buchanan passed away
recently and on June 20th you’ll be asked to vote in a local election to find a
replacement SNP councillor for our area.”
Voter Kay Jenkinson, said she was shocked
when she read the leaflet put through her door she said:
“We know most political parties, if not
all, can be strangers to accuracy but this is just ridiculous. It’s not an SNP
by-election. I don’t wish any harm to the candidate, but it’s just wrong.”
Ms Jenkinson, from Moredun Park Drive,
added:
“Tom Buchanan was very well thought of in
the area. He was a decent, hard-working councillor. But this leaflet is at the
very least inaccurate and I can’t help feeling it’s deliberately worded to
influence people.”
SNP candidate Derek Howie has denied the
leaflet was misleading.
Can this person understand English?
His feeble mutterings involve saying and admitted
the description of the contest as an SNP by-election was “obviously an error”.
The campaign team all failed to spot this?
Howie said:
“It’s not an SNP by-election, it’s a
council by-election. There’s probably nothing we can do about it. They are all
printed. I don’t think there is any attempt to mislead and I don’t think anyone
will be misled.”
It’s deception.
And if you need a reason not to vote for
Howie, then he aptly gives one, he said there was nothing wrong in saying
voters were to choose “a replacement SNP councillor”, adding: “We’re trying to
replace Tom Buchanan with another SNP councillor. I’m not sure that’s terribly
misleading.”
What is his IQ?
To say he comes across as dense does
cretins a disservice.
Labour candidate Keith Robson said he had
been surprised at the leaflet.
His pitch:
“My first thought was, how on earth can
they get away with that? But I’m just concentrating on campaigning.”
A senior Labour source went further, saying
the SNP were taking voters for fools:
“They would like people to believe this is
a one-party state and they can only vote SNP. In fact, people in
Liberton/Gilmerton have an abundant choice of candidates and should be allowed
to go into the election without politicians trying to pull the wool over their
eyes.”
In this case, one person who doesn’t
deserve to elected to public is Derek Howie, on the grounds of stupidity.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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