Dear All
Recently you couldn’t have failed to notice the building of
a fascist state in Scotland by unpopular Nicola Sturgeon and her chorts;
whether it be; children having state approved named persons to watch their
development or the proposal of political interfering with the running of
Scottish universities to the NHS data being available to other agencies to
create a backdoor ID card system.
It’s all designed for one thing and one thing only, to
create a climate of fear that ‘big brother’ is watching you from birth to
death.
And it is all sinister!
Some time ago, I commented on what I called ‘cuddly fascism’
which is another analogy for what the Scottish National Party term ‘civic
nationalism’. Civic Nationalism is a construct that is sheer rubbish, Sturgeon
says it is based around ‘social justice’ but it is really about making ‘non
Scots’ into ‘Scots’ to try and build around herself a power base.
This concept as anyone with a reasonable IQ is bullshit, if
you have to buy loyalty like an ice cream lolly at the supermarket, you run the
risk of someone making them a better offer.
Another target for the SNP is universities, the analogy
there is ‘first they came for’; well you get the picture I am sure. The SNP
want to centralise control of everything in Scotland so that they can exert
power into bodies under normal circumstances wouldn’t have anything to do with
them. It is all about the SNP putting their place men and women into positions
of power and earning a coin at the same time.
These people, the less than gifted will be telling
institutions how they should think in the new order devised by a handful of
people in the SNP. Sturgeon never stops banging
on about putting people in positions merely because they are the correct gender
(her gender) or if they fit a certain ethnic profile or sexuality.
You may remember my famous quote of:
“If you are white working class and heterosexual you are
shit out of luck dealing with the Sturgeon Empire”.
George Laird right again.
Unsurprisingly, some people don’t want ‘cuddly fascism’ some
of Scotland ’s
most eminent universities have rebelled against SNP plans which would give
ministers unprecedented political control.
Kind of like the NKVD ‘Thought Police’ which operated in
Stalin’s Russia .
What universities are looking at is losing their independence and losing
academic freedom, when that goes, they also lose their international
reputations. This makes it harder to attract top academics in their various
fields who probably don’t want to end up in the equivalent of a North Korean
‘gulagesque’ environment.
You can have your perks and money as long as you obey the
new order of the Sturgeon Empire.
The University
of St Andrews
In the Sturgeon Empire, academics will learn a new
definition of “academic freedom” and principals will be renamed as chief
executive officers.
Although St Andrews says principals
renamed as chief executive officers is a
“relatively trivial matter” in itself, I don’t think they
grasp the scale of the problem, chief executive officers possibly won’t have to
be academics.
Get the picture, a Sturgeon crony or one of the SNP power
cliques could see one of their number elevated straight into academia without
having any experience of running a major public institution.
The SNP’s claim the new legislation aims to protect
universities’ independence, which is rubbish, let’s face it, this is another
power grab to exert Nationalist influence in Scotland which will have a
detrimental effect on universities and how they are governed. It will bring politicians very close to the
governance of institutions which they declare to be autonomous, with place men
and women sitting making notes about who is disloyal to the regime and when and
where.
St Andrews says the plans will hinder Scottish universities’
ability to compete globally, “diminish their international strength and should
be resisted”, I guess that means they won’t be getting a Xmas card from Nicola
Sturgeon this year, but hey, maybe they might get a cut in their grant.
The university has decided to challenge ministers and asked
them to provide evidence there are problems with how it is currently run. This
isn’t about evidence, this is about dogma presented as evidence, they say it
and so it must be true. Like the independence referendum, delusions are
presented as facts in the hope that the gullible will take it on board.
In writing this, I am cloudy by my past experience of how I
was treated at university as someone from a working class background, basically
I was held in contempt, my rights weren’t respected because despite being in
receipt of public money, these university management people get to lie, cheat
and rob with impunity, then they go to ‘drinks’ with the politicians.
Just like tactical voting, I am choosing the lesser evil and
support academic right to freedom without political interference. In the
Nationalist proposals in the Higher Education Governance Bill, they want open
elections for chairs of governing bodies and forcing them to appoint more
women, alumni and trade unionists to make them “fully representative”.
Universities by their nature do not represent society,
anyone who says otherwise needs their head examined. However, it is clear, the
Sturgeon bill is all about dogma, should women be appointed solely on the basis
they are women? Surely the acid test is and must always be, is the person the
best candidate.
To let others in who bring with them an agenda is
counter-productive and self defeating to any institution.
“Governmental legislation on university procedures and
values risks making universities into a ‘political football’ by successive
governments, which becomes itself a serious threat to responsible autonomy and
academic freedom.”
They also made the point that the chair of its court is
already selected by representatives of “stakeholder groups” such as students,
staff and alumni, as I saw at Glasgow University, the chair can sometimes be
not up to the task.
That said, in my opinion, Johnny Ball, the TV presenter was
the best Rector that Glasgow University ever had, it was a great pity when he
left and a loss to the students.
Another sinister proposal is that SNP ministers want to transfer
the role of the Privy Council in considering amendments to the statutes of the
four ancient universities to a new “Scottish Committee”.
Joining in the list of unhappy, Aberdeen University
So, unpopular Nicola Surgeon will no doubt press on with the
higher education bill and it will be bad for Scottish education.
Liz Smith, Scottish Tory young people spokesman, said:
“There’s no evidence whatsoever that this Bill is needed.
The Scottish Government are doing this because they want more control.”
Quite so ma’am!
The Scottish Government response to the backlash was pretty
standard, they want to deliver academic ‘milk and honey’, they said it “wants
to enable our universities to embrace more transparent and democratic
governance principles” and it would take into account the views expressed in
the submissions.
Take into account the views expressed in the submissions, that is a load of dick, the SNP don’t listen to anyone, if they agree with
someone it is because they also hold the same view.
That is what the Nationalists mean by listening.
There are worrying signs of a police state developing
rapidly in Scotland ,
I am sure there must be a grant proposal in there somewhere.
Time for a quote used earlier in the article:
“If you are white working class and heterosexual you are
shit out of luck dealing with the Sturgeon Empire”.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
5 comments:
Like anyone else with a modicum of braincells i find the thought of more government control over a fairly independent sector alarming and nauseating.
Sturgeon is certainly not a good looking woman, how can anyone do that without the lights out
Have you got a brain. Scotland is being screwed by other parties no matter who is in. If you don't like it tough If it was the other way you would be saying this to me. Try emigrating. If they do get in (SNP) good luck to them. What says they are no better than what we have got.
Nicola really is an ugly woman up close,makes you shudder that anyone could do that one.
Anonymous - the SNP are already 'in' as you say. 8 years now of Holyrood rule.
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