Dear All
It seems that the Yes campaign wants to portray themselves
as ‘nice people’ and they have ‘nice people’ supporting them.
But it appears that isn’t quite true that the Yes campaign
are ‘nice people’, in the Yes Office in Glasgow sits a person called Ross Greer.
He follows a hate account on twitter.
And in the ‘nice people’ supporting Yes Scotland, they also have
the cybernats.
Therefore the new clean up ‘act’ for indy is meaningless,
that said the Yes Campaign has forced into an embarrassing U-turn over its use
of a Labour politician.
Yes Scotland promoted former Westminster candidate John
Cowan who was removed as a Labour candidate for boasting about his sex life and
making racist comments.
Nationalists desperate for the Labour voters to back them;
trotted him out as one of the “senior Labour members who back Yes for
Scotland’s workers”. They also included quotes in publicity material to ‘big’
him up.
Now after a bit of digging by the press; the Yes campaign is
to “dissociate” them from Cowan. John Cowan was also thrown out of the Lib Dems
in 2004 for sending “sexual” e-mails to women, before going on to join the
Labour party.
The Yes Campaign has also distanced themselves from Tommy
Sheridan who despite being rebuffed by them has continued to campaign for a Yes
vote. Sheridan had an infamous trial which saw him put in prison. Sex featured
highly in that case as Sheridan was exposed in a News of the World article as
going to a sex club and allegedly doing a bit of shagging with several women.
Shaggers4indy anyone!
In seeing a chance for a dig; No campaigners accusing Yes
Scotland of “desperation” over Cowan. They also accused the Yes Campaign of failing
to check out the backgrounds of independence supporters from other parties.
Strictly speaking they have no legal right to do that, but hey, maybe someone
thought they were being ‘creative’ while stirring.
Labour MSP Neil Findlay said:
“Now we have the Yes campaign trying to dig up anyone at all
whom they claim is a ‘senior figure’. This is truly desperate stuff.”
In trying to promote Cowan, Yes Scotland went on to boldly
state how Cowan had strong Scottish roots, his family come from Kirkcaldy. I
have been to Kirkcaldy, it was on a university bus run, and is beside the
seaside, it’s grim even with the seaside.
Anyway Cowan says he backed independence due to a “strong
sense of national pride”.
He is a local Labour councillor in Norfolk.
There are a lot of Turkeys in Norfolk!
So, when Yes Scotland campaign managers learned he had been
removed as a candidate for reportedly boasting about his sexual exploits online
and for saying he would not want his children to marry a Muslim, they decided
to take action.
By the time, they acted the damage had already been done.
This is a major embarrassment for the independence lobby
which as I have said in the past is headed up by the Scottish National Party’s
unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as the ‘face of independence’.
She can’t do anything right!
Yes Scotland has since removed Cowan’s name from its online
list of supporters on its website. It has also had to remove the press release
with Cowan’s quotes backing its cause.
Yes Scotland last night hurriedly issued a statement denying
any prior knowledge of Cowan being ousted as a Labour general election
candidate.
Cowan has admitted posting remarks on websites but claimed
they had been taken “totally out of context”.
He is also claiming said he still is a registered supporter of
Yes Scotland and hoped to spend time campaigning for the group.
Each day more and more information hits the public domain
why the people of Scotland should vote No to Alex Salmond’s and his supporters.
One thing is certain, it is far too late for the SNP front
that is Yes Scotland to clean up its ‘act’ as ‘nice’ people that like their
independence tale is seen by some as pure fantasy.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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