Dear All
The Scottish National Party and supporters of independence
are keen to get Prime Minister David Cameron into a TV studio with Alex
Salmond.
The idea is to run through a catalogue of grudge, grievance
and malcontent of how Scotland isn’t represented by Westminster using populist
arguments.
David Cameron and his advisors have wisely refused to play
Alex Salmond’s game, he isn’t going to be dancing to a Scottish jig, he doesn’t
have to, the less oxygen Salmond gets the worse it is for him.
Alex Salmond recently embarrassed himself with his ill
judged and stupid Wimbledon stunt by pulling out a Scottish Flag to photobomb
David Cameron when Andy Murray won the Wimbledon men’s final.
If there was a time for dignity then Salmond blew it, he lost
out on a proper post Murray photo op as he tried to hijack Murray’s success for
his own ends. One has to wonder who thought up this ridiculous idea in the
first place, as I keep saying; there is a genuine lack of talent in the
Scottish National Party.
The latest person from the Nationalist camp to call for
David Cameron to go head to head with Salmond is Margo MacDonald.
She is calling for two keynote TV debates, involving both
referendum campaigns as well as the UK and Scottish governments, to take place
in the run up to the vote on independence.
Margo MacDonald says “that’s the fairest way of doing it”,
so Salmond gets two TV debates but David Cameron gets only one, how exactly is
that fair?
And why should Cameron debate at all, there is nothing in it
for him or his coalition government.
Nothing to gain and something to lose, his advisors would
say no. Let Salmond go head to head with Alastair Darling, the sub text is that
Salmond isn’t a proper or credible government minister.
MacDonald says she will raise the issue at Holyrood when
MSPs return after the summer recess.
Waste of time on her part, the SNP and its supporters are
desperate for this debate; and poll after poll shows they have already lost the
issue. It was lost due to stupidity on the part of Salmond and Sturgeon, and
they can’t make up the ground, they are standing on political quicksand.
Ms. MacDonald also says a deal was needed on the issue to
avoid a damaging row similar to that over the controversial exclusion of the
SNP from the leader’s debate at the 2010 General Election.
This issue is different, in her mind she has already worked
out the contenders for both sides and without consultation with Better Together
and Westminster. She also wants Labour and the Greens to be represented in any
TV clashes as well as saying she would be prepared to act as Alex Salmond’s
seconder in any debate against Mr Cameron.
She isn’t up to the task, although Patrick Harvie is a
decent speaker, some of the Green’s policies don’t stack up in the big arena of
international politics. On defence it is a mixture of universal love and no to
nuclear weapons, both positions are unworkable in strategic warfare of the 21st
Century.
As we are seeing in Syria with the murder of unarmed
prisoners, respect for human rights, and universal love doesn’t work. I don’t
think Patrick Harvie could solve that situation with talk unless he also
happened to be holding an M4 carbine using 5.56 mm ammunition.
Better Together leader Alastair Darling has publicly
challenged Alex Salmond to a debate, although Salmond has yet to agree to it.
The Yes Scotland crowd won’t get Cameron unless they can
pull off a miracle of campaigning and with half of their directors baling out
on them in less than one year, ineffective management failing to produce
results, no one to work for them, Nicola Sturgeon’s cronies in key positions,
the old adage of staying out of the way while your enemy makes a mistake
applies here.
Unionists can simply wait out Alex Salmond and Nicola
Sturgeon as these two buffoons flounder from knee jerk reaction to knee jerk
reaction in trying to scrap together support, the more they try to grasp it the
more it slips through their hands.
There is no vision of Scottish independence, however there
is a clear position from the British side, we know the plus and the negatives.
I previously said that there must be two successful periods
of Scottish Government completed to show a record of achievement, this term of
the SNP Government has been a complete and utter disaster, and we are finding
out the previous term wasn’t so sterling as the hype we were told.
Detail matters.
As to Margo MacDonald’s motion it is a pointless exercise in
a sham parliament which is full of SNP drones whose opinions are generally not
worth hearing.
Recently Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola
Sturgeon attended Wimbledon; sitting beside her was Jude Law who was excellent
as Vassily Zeitzev in the movie, ‘Enemy at the Gates’. From the look on Nicola
Sturgeon’s face, it rather looked like she wasn’t enjoying herself; perhaps as
she watched the tennis, she was pondering how it was ‘game, set and match’ for
the Unionist side.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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