Dear All
It is a new year, a time of hope and new adventures, but for
some people it is the continuation of a nightmare.
One person is facing political death this year.
It's a disaster, all self created which makes it all the
more worse, he dug his hole and now it is too deep to climb out.
He is trapped, trapped like a rat.
I read a lot online by commentators about how
"smart", he is, this must be an 'in' joke, because I don't get
it.
Others say he is a formidable debater that others fears, I
say what is there to fear?
He got into power because the Labour Party burnt their
bridges in the expenses scandal, add to it, the then Labour Executive dropped
the ball, they then sat in the huff for the next entire term of the Scottish
Parliament without a coherent plan to win it back.
Other people's stupidity doesn't make you bright, it just allows
you to take advantage of other people's misfortune.
Right time, right place!
But when it comes to crafting Scottish independence, the
Nationalist clique couldn't string a sentence together, they have been found
wanting, dramatically. The SNP couldn't write their own White Paper, they had
to use the resources of the Scottish Government.
A major mistake was of course putting Scotland 's unpopular Deputy First
Minister Nicola Sturgeon as the 'face of independence', in recent by-elections
including the Govan by-election, the public blew her arse out of the water in a
supposed SNP heartland.
Apparently, there isn't such an SNP legacy in Govan.
Or more specific a Sturgeon one!
But there are a lot of women in Govan who think Nicola
Sturgeon is an "arsehole".
Politics..... such fun!
To the Scottish independence referendum, it is important,
not because of independence but rather it is the fight to stop fascism. The SNP
is a run as a 'rat ship', the Scottish Government has lurched to right or
better still, they are now showing their true colours, the Yes Scotland crowd,
well, just SNP proxies and cronies.
Rather than offering a new Scotland , Salmond and Sturgeon are
offering nothing of the sort.
We know this because less than a third of Scots want to
leave the United Kingdom ,
Scottish Working Class people have seen through Salmond and Sturgeon.
The phoney war never got started, the campaign went straight
to 'war' on the SNP side, and have been fighting a rearguard action ever since,
no one is coming to help Alex Salmond.
He fired his last bullet with the White Paper.
According to an opinion poll published support for
separation has stagnated at 30 per cent.
Even if Sturgeon convince all of the other 10 per cent of
don't knows, the SNP are 10 percent short and need a plus one as well.
The long-awaited blueprint for separation is tripe, sheer utter
tripe.
Support for remaining in the UK is more 61 per cent, according
to a You Gov poll.
And the floating vote shows that more than third of Scots
who voted SNP in the 2011 Holyrood election are opposed to independence.
I expect that number to increase as the case for separation
is quiet and analytically taken apart piece by piece.
25 per cent of the White Paper cannot be guaranteed, you
would think a document which is so important would be water tight.
There is and remains a genuine lack of talent in the
Scottish National Party.
Nicola Sturgeon, the unpopular Deputy First Minister tried
to kick start the Nationalists’ 2014 campaign with a challenge to Unionists to
spell out in detail what would happen if Scots vote ‘no’ on September 18.
Devo max, the option that isn't on the ballot paper, this is
irrelevant and a distraction, there is a proposal on the ballot paper,
independence, yes or no!
There is also a General Election in 2015 which makes the
question irrelevant as there isn't a single entity to commit to anything
because we don't know who will be in power at Westminster , one thing we can be sure of, it
won't be the SNP forming the next Westminster Government.
The 'feeble six', everyone is trying to save their jobs on
the Unionist side, that way people like Angus Robertson have somewhere to go
for a heat out of the cold.
Speaking at St Andrew’s University, Sturgeon tried to argue
that the referendum is “not a choice between change and no change” and the
unionists should offer an alternative vision.
She just doesn't get it, she isn't part of the solution but
rather a bystander regarding devo max and its content.
The attempt to get David Cameron to stage a televised TV
debate with Salmond, shows how far the fear is embedded in the Nationalist
ranks, Cameron rightly is off at Plumpton on that issue, he and his advisors
realise that this is an attempt to distract attention away from the fact the
SNP is losing.
Losing badly no George Laird radical thinking!
I have to laugh at the marathon referendum campaign which started
ore than 18 months ago, full with SNP cronies who collectively couldn't fuck a
doorknob even with a hand book complete with pictures.
Yes Salmond in Hope
Street Glasgow
What price friendship?
Such a long time ago, I said that the reason for a long SNP campaign
was that the SNP doesn't have anyone to work for them, and some of the
'material' left is incapable of having a discussion with the public. The SNP
will be running a campaign much like an election starting properly after the
New Year, at the same time, they will have to run an election campaign for the
European Parliament, but with allegations that they are 'EU liars' that
campaign will have to play second fiddle to the main fight.
In the latter stages of the SNP campaign, you can expect
them to talk utter shite and promise the earth to everyone.
But in the end it will make no difference, trust has been
broken, mistakes in politics are acceptable but outright lying isn't.
The SNP will target traditional Labour working-class voters
in the centre and west of Scotland ,
it is these people who will decide whether the 307-year-old Union
survives.
Better Together said its poll was commissioned to mark the
25th anniversary of John Smith, the former Labour leader, stating that
devolution was the “settled will” of the Scottish people.
Blair McDougall, Better Together campaign’s director, said:
“The choice we face in September is between continuing the
success of devolution as part of the wider UK or giving up on devolution and
going it alone. The three pro-devolution parties are committed to strengthening
and continuing the success of the Scottish Parliament. Even the SNP, after a
vote to remain in the UK ,
will have to become a pro-devolution party.”
He added:
“Our argument this year will be that devolution gives us the
best of both worlds and this poll confirms most people in Scotland agree
with us. We know devolution works – why would we want to put that at risk with independence?”
Sturgeon added:
“For Scotland
– and everyone who lives here – 2014 will be a special and momentous year. It
is a year that future generations will read about in the history books … On
September 18 we have the biggest opportunity we will ever have to start
building a better country.”
She really can't do 'excitement' can she?
As to the SNP 'fascist' agenda which is seeping out in
legislation, they can look back on that as part of their many mistakes which
killed off their chances.
So what of the history books?
My take is this will be remembered as the year of Alex
Salmond's political death at the ballot box.
He will like the sands of time be swept away, and written up
as an 'opportunist' not a master strategist. Salmond needs other people to do
his thinking for him.
As to Ms. Sturgeon and her claim of "the biggest
opportunity we will ever have to start building a better country."
Did she get that from an episode of Borgen?
Nicola Sturgeon left Scots women to die from cancer by
failing to ensure the proper drugs where provided, I don't think her claims of
her ‘nationalism’ being based on ‘social justice’ stack up.
Do you?
You know all you need to know about the SNP with Nicola
Sturgeon giving a speech in the University of St Andrews which is on record in
one year of admitting 13 poor Scots to be students.
This SNP Campaign by Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon is a
rich man’s campaign, and only a rich man’s campaign, it has nothing to do with helping
the working class in Scotland?
Labour voters should just ignore her plea of come join her poisonous vision.
Labour voters should just ignore her plea of come join her poisonous vision.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
“Mistakes in politics are acceptable but outright lying isn't.”
ReplyDeleteMy cousin proves this point, George. She told me a couple of weeks ago that she had voted SNP in every single election since she turned 18. She is now 56. But, with the unfolding campaign and the ‘White Paper’, she feels as if she is being, and has been, lied to. The result is that she’s not only furious with them, but furious with herself, for allowing herself to be taken in by, what she now sees as, a bunch of fantasists.
Incidentally, regarding Mr Salmond’s future in the event of a ‘NO’ vote, I think it’s unlikely he will resign immediately, as I would imagine there’ll be some goodies in store for him at the Ryder Cup, like a few free nights in Gleneagles. He’ll leave it until January 2015, and give us some spurious reason for staying on, like needing to mentor Ms Sturgeon before she steps into his shoes. Whatever the case, he will do as he always does: treat the rest of us like morons.
Dear All
ReplyDelete“Mistakes in politics are acceptable but outright lying isn't.”
My cousin proves this point, George. She told me a couple of weeks ago that she had voted SNP in every single election since she turned 18. She is now 56. But, with the unfolding campaign and the ‘White Paper’, she feels as if she is being, and has been, lied to”.
This puts her in the same boat as the majority of Scots who feel they have been lied to as well as cheated.
“The result is that she’s not only furious with them, but furious with herself, for allowing herself to be taken in by, what she now sees as, a bunch of fantasists”.
She shouldn’t be furious but glad, to explain, she has been conned, but she is now wiser, it cost her a few votes but now she is self aware, so she now has a clear direction of travel away from Salmond and Sturgeon.
“Incidentally, regarding Mr Salmond’s future in the event of a ‘NO’ vote, I think it’s unlikely he will resign immediately, as I would imagine there’ll be some goodies in store for him at the Ryder Cup, like a few free nights in Gleneagles. He’ll leave it until January 2015, and give us some spurious reason for staying on, like needing to mentor Ms Sturgeon before she steps into his shoes”.
I think he will be there much longer, the SNP won’t do well at Westminster 2015, but they might benefit from a Lib Dems collapse if it happens, thus they would use that as them being ‘popular’ again. West of Scotland looks doubtful for a win especially in Glasgow, it is wall to wall drones in the SNP ranks surrounding unpopular DFM Nicola Sturgeon.
“Whatever the case, he will do as he always does: treat the rest of us like morons”.
I saw Alex Salmond in a tv interview, he looked ill, maybe he is counting down the hours to his political death at the ballot box or maybe he will step down prior to the vote cite illness, then do a comeback.
But he should go and Sturgeon should go with him, the SNP isn’t a political party anymore, it is a self serving clique of remarkably talentless people who have been carried by others for years.
These people hate the working class with a passion that outstrips the Tories.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University