Dear All
Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond was
hoping to use the European elections as a springboard.
That plan fell to pieces as Ukip stormed in
and claimed a seat which the SNP hoped would go to ex Tory candidate Tasmina
Ahmed-Sheikh.
Salmond played the race card against Ukip
and it blew up in his face rather badly, you don’t play the race card when your
candidate is from an ethnic minority.
Rather than accept a humiliating defeat
gracefully, Salmond has decided to blame the Labour Party for 90% of Scots not
voting SNP.
He is blaming them for his mismanagement
and staggering incompetence.
Labour didn’t make me vote UkIp, Alex
Salmond and unpopular Nicola Sturgeon made me vote Ukip, Labour never entered
my mind as I was going to protest vote to keep out Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh.
And it seems that many of my fellow Scots
agreed with me.
In the rest of the UK, Ukip made impressive
gains and won the election, the first party in a hundred years to beat outright
Labour and Conservative.
When the final results were confirmed it
was Ukip, led by Nigel Farage who grab that essential sixth Scottish seat in
Brussels with a 10.4 per cent share of the vote.
They might have only got one seat but they
sucked the oxygen away from the Scottish National Party.
Who are now rather upset, like little upset
budgies?
No ‘jolly fat man’ smile from Salmond, no I
am so popular, 90% of Scots rejected him.
They utterly failed in their aim of
snatching a third seat.
David Coburn, the party's new Scottish MEP,
said:
"The Ukip revolution has now come to
Scotland."
A bit early to be talking about revolution
but the best dig so far from the political sphere was when Labour Leader Johann
Lamont said:
"From Poland to France, Greece to
Scotland we have seen the rise of nationalism and Scotland now has three
nationalist MEPs”.
And of course there is the recent article
by Staurt Winton on Think Scotland where he points out the similarities with
the SNP and Ukip.
Labour rightly highlighted that Salmond bolstered
the Ukip support by turning the campaign into a straight fight between the SNP
and what the First Minister repeatedly described as Mr Farage's "politics
of intolerance".
In the end, people choose to stick with a
protest vote and reject Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh.
In a comment sent to the blog, a poster
said that there were many happy people at the SNP who were happy to see Tasmina
Ahmed-Sheikh lose.
Labour MEP David Martin said:
"I'd like to suggest to David Coburn
that the first thing he does when he sits down and recovers from the champagne
is write a letter to Alex Salmond because there is no doubt in my mind that
Alex Salmond's decision to polarise the campaign, the Scottish debate, between
two extremes is why David Coburn is with us today as a member of the European
Parliament."
One of the attacks leveled by Salmond was Farage's
party were boosted by "the wall-to-wall media coverage of Ukip that has
been beamed into Scotland".
Apparently no one was really interested in Tasmina
Ahmed-Sheikh, ex Tory, ex Labour and a Sturgeon crony.
SNP MEP Alyn Smith said:
"Ukip topped the poll south of Border
because the Westminster parties have pandered to their agenda. In Scotland, the
SNP took them on - and we won the election."
90% of Scots didn’t vote for the SNP.
So, who is to blame?
The answer is simple, Alex Salmond is to
blame, his stupidity was a gift to Ukip, he decided to use race to polarise the
debate between David Coburn and Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh.
A Nationalist supporter on twitter said:
“If only we'd run a white man instead of a
Muslim woman”.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
You could have stuck up a monkey in a kilt and he would have taken a third seat for the SNP. Their problem is they think they are popular. Free bus passes are popular so are free prescriptions council tax blah blah.
ReplyDeleteTheir bogus left wing agenda will come to a sudden halt if Scots vote for Independence.
Tasmina slagged off the Tories for being left wing. Now she's a Tartan Tory. She joined the right party so as to pursue her right wing dogma.
Dear Anon
ReplyDelete“You could have stuck up a monkey in a kilt and he would have taken a third seat for the SNP”.
You tell me the SNP discriminate against Shetland ponies?
What is wrong with a Scottish Shetland pony?
Scottish not good enough for the Scottish National Party!
“Their problem is they think they are popular. Free bus passes are popular so are free prescriptions council tax blah blah”.
Nicola Sturgeon is unpopular and I think she knows it as you can clearly see in some pictures.
“Their bogus left wing agenda will come to a sudden halt if Scots vote for Independence”.
You got that right; they made a start on robbing working class Scots of their right to buy their council flat.
“Tasmina slagged off the Tories for being left wing”.
To be fair Ms. Ahmed-Sheikh doesn’t know a lot about politics as she was described as politically naïve by her election agent in the Conservative Party.
“Now she's a Tartan Tory”.
Only at present while there is a candidate position available.
“She joined the right party so as to pursue her right wing dogma”.
Does she have time for politics; I thought her aim was self advancement!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Dear Anon
ReplyDelete“You could have stuck up a monkey in a kilt and he would have taken a third seat for the SNP”.
You tell me the SNP discriminate against Shetland ponies?
What is wrong with a Scottish Shetland pony?
Scottish not good enough for the Scottish National Party!
“Their problem is they think they are popular. Free bus passes are popular so are free prescriptions council tax blah blah”.
Nicola Sturgeon is unpopular and I think she knows it as you can clearly see in some pictures.
“Their bogus left wing agenda will come to a sudden halt if Scots vote for Independence”.
You got that right; they made a start on robbing working class Scots of their right to buy their council flat.
“Tasmina slagged off the Tories for being left wing”.
To be fair Ms. Ahmed-Sheikh doesn’t know a lot about politics as she was described as politically naïve by her election agent in the Conservative Party.
“Now she's a Tartan Tory”.
Only at present while there is a candidate position available.
“She joined the right party so as to pursue her right wing dogma”.
Does she have time for politics; I thought her aim was self advancement!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
SNP got more votes than your party George. Accept that with grace.
ReplyDeleteEvery SNP voter was out to vote. And still less than 30%.
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