Dear All
How many times have we been lied too or
misled by the Scottish National Party in Government?
The latest falsehood to be exposed that is
that Scottish Government officials say they wrongly interpreted data.
The claim was made that the oil and gas
industry would create 34,000 jobs in Scotland over the next two years.
Is this a pattern?
Working class Scots told something which
when examined turns out to be untrue.
I said it before and I say it again, there is
an issue of trust which Alex Salmond cannot hide from any longer.
The bogus figure of 34,000 was in fact referred
to UK-wide jobs and not Scottish jobs.
Sooner or later the truth always gets out.
Once you have misled or lied in politics,
how do people take you seriously? Mistakes happen, people understand genuine mistakes
but when right across an entire range of subjects get slanted; people then
close their minds.
The paper was published on July 23 and was
amended three days later; however, this still leaves a bad smell.
John Swinney, SNP Finance Secretary has now
acknowledged the error in a written response to Conservative finance spokesman
Gavin Brown.
Everything that the SNP say or produce will
be gone through line by line, checked, filed and cross referenced, lying isn’t
an option.
Swinney said:
"This was a result of an incorrect
interpretation of data presented by Lloyds Banking Group by Scottish Government
officials in the original published version of Maximising the Return from Oil
and Gas in an Independent Scotland. The Scottish Government report was
subsequently updated on the 26 July 2013 and it now states that: 'Lloyds
Banking Group forecast in March 2013 that future growth in the sector will
create 34,000 jobs in the industry and related businesses across the UK over
the next two years, with all areas of Scotland expected to benefit'."
Opposition parties haven’t been slow to
seize on this latest debacle and accused the Government of trying to pretend
the figure applied to Scotland alone.
They also added that the SNP Government sneaking
out a correction to the paper on the quiet.
Mr Brown said:
"On many occasions the Scottish
Government has put its own unusual interpretation on figures and tried to paint
it as reality. This time it used a UK figure and pretended it was a Scottish
statistic, then blamed Lloyds for the mistake. However, it turns out the error
was the Scottish Government's and I'm glad that has now been clarified in black
and white. It's also concerning to note the Scottish Government doesn't appear
to have an estimate of the number of jobs that will be created in the oil and
gas industry in future years. Given the separation argument relies heavily on
the sector, this leaves a substantial gap; something that has to be addressed
as soon as possible."
Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said:
"I am sure there are a few red faces
in government offices just now. What is more concerning is the fact that it
seems ministers tried to correct the record without letting anyone know what
they were up to. This was a basic factual mistake that should have been
acknowledged and corrected in the full glare of the public eye. Instead they
tried to sneak out a correction without fanfare while parliament was in
recess."
The SNP Government is paralysed and has
been so since all the SNP Ministers have ran off to chase the independence dream:
what they should have done was to be at their desks doing their jobs.
There are so few people willing to work for
Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon now!
The Scottish independence campaign is dead,
anyone who is working class working for the campaign should face up to the fact
that they are just used as cheap labour and regarded as a mug!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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