Dear All
I have said repeatedly that there is a genuine
lack of talent in the Scottish National Party.
As the controversial Labour for
Independence group (LFI) plods on desperately trying to convince people that it
is actually Labour Party members, more evidence emerges that it is nothing more
than an SNP front.
One of the SNP, a long-term member has
joined Labour with the aim of undermining the party over the referendum.
Stupid idea, and stupid in application.
Celia Fitzgerald has told the press how she
was an SNP member since 2004 but had quit in November and then immediately
joined Labour and LFI.
And she makes no secret; it was in order to
agitate from within against Labour's support for the union.
Do you see what I mean about a genuine lack
of talent in the Scottish National Party, to think such a stupid idea would
work and not blow up in the face of the SNP proves my point which I have long
held!
Stupidity is a poor substitute for
intelligence!
The self confess Alex Salmond cheerleader refers
to "his Eckness" being a cuddly "honey" even on her
Facebook page. She should have kept that shut along with her mouth, the more
she speaks, the deeper the hole she digs.
Fitzgerald is now LFI treasurer and its
organiser in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
This begs the question, how many more SNP
members have dropped their membership to carry out similar roles in the
independence campaign?
How many SNP members have suddenly become
Labour members; if it was just one, then there wouldn’t be much of a story,
however, this on the surface doesn’t appear to have been random in nature.
Since the revelations Better Together says
Fitzgerald's case proves LFI was a skin-deep Nationalist fake, and not the
important grass-roots development claimed by the SNP.
Labour for independence was founder by Allan
Grogan, his branch in Angus say he wasn’t active for the Labour Party even at
election times.
Now suddenly, he is a founder of LFI and
running all over the country campaigning, if I was Labour, I would find out
which members of the party are part of LFI and give them a straight choice.
LFI or Labour!
The Labour Party has left this lot to
fester, and they have milked the bad PR, so it is just a matter of stamping
this out now.
As a tactic, this stunt is pretty disgraceful
and ultimately rather stupid, it was destine to backfire and now it has, trust
is the issue, people know now, LFI is finished as a credible force.
The SNP and Yes Scotland both welcomed
LFI's formation in June 2012, they were quick to say it was evidence of a
Labour split on independence, but the reality is that only about 30 people in
LFI are Labour Party members.
And I wonder how many of these ‘campaigners’
were actually activists for the Labour Party in the first place!
The Sunday Herald has some rather nice
snaps of SNP councillors sitting with piles of LFI leaflets in a pub and
manning an LFI stall.
Brains obviously in short supply.
And to drive home the SNP front claim,
Allan Grogan also said his group had received financial support from the
SNP-led Yes Scotland campaign.
Fitzgerald on her political travels said:
"I left Labour ages ago and joined the
SNP to work for independence, then rejoined the Labour Party [in East Lothian]
after I heard about Allan Grogan and Labour for Independence. I rejoined the
Labour Party in November. It's about reclaiming the Labour Party for its
members and its supporters and the people, and taking it away from this ghastly
leadership."
This is the same line used by others in the
LFI about ‘reclaiming the Labour Party for its members’.
She added:
"New Labour is not real Labour at all.
It's a Westminster party. It's not presenting the people of Scotland. We see it
as a Scottish party, and we want to bring it back to Scotland, dust it down,
return it to its proper values and then re-export it to England. We can't do
that unless Scotland is independent."
Crap!
She added that it was "ludicrous"
to suggest LFI was an SNP front or dishonest in its activities.
One of the leading lights of LFI is its chairman
Alex Bell, 59, who rejoined Labour in mid-2012 after many years out of the
party.
He said:
"Getting rid of New Labour is the
issue. If someone could convince me there was still a British road to socialism
I might not be voting Yes. It [independence] frees the current Scottish Labour
Party or a new one from having to pander to that Thatcherite greed of the
southeast of England to get elected."
Rejoined Labour in mid-2012……… pathetic,
sadly in some case the Nationalist cause attracts the not very few bright.
Better Together campaign director Blair
McDougall said:
"Last week, we had photographic
evidence of senior SNP politicians attempting to deceive the public. Now it
appears that there are deliberate attempts by the SNP to infiltrate the Labour
Party to support the deception. "There are serious questions to answer for
the SNP, Yes Scotland and 'Labour' for Independence. How far up the nationalist
chain of command did this deception go? We know Alex Salmond and Nicola
Sturgeon have shared platforms with this group. Why did they work so closely
with this organisation when it was clear 'Labour for Independence' was nothing
more than a sham?"
In political terms, the LFI shambles is
another reason why trust is deserting the Nationalist cause; Fitzgerald will
probably rejoin the SNP post September 2014 or quicker if Labour throws her
arse out into the street.
If I was leader of either the Yes Camp or
Pro UK, I wouldn’t tolerate such behavior or have members associated with it. Labour for Independence is now a lame duck with no credibility at all
Johann Lamont should act because Alex
Salmond doesn’t have the integrity in my opinion to be a statesman and deal
with this; he is just a squalid little man, sinking he is grasping at straws.
Anas Sarwar is right, this is a desperate charade.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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