Dear All
Back in 2012, I wrote a post that Scottish independence was
dead, as we near the end of 2015; Alex Salmond’s former head of policy has also
said the SNP case for independence is dead.
Most of my regular readers know that eventually everyone
more or less comes around to the George Laird view. In the migrant crisis, I
said that border controls need to be put back into operation. Through-out
Europe this is now happening with Belgium being the latest EU to do
so. Just as Scottish independence is dead, so is the Schengen agreement within
the EU. I would say given my previous suggestions on ‘fixes’ for the migrant
crisis, that we also need a mechanism so that when one EU country by
circumstance has to operate controls that neighbouring countries should also be
required to do so.
This would act as a buffer to contain problems; this is my
sixth suggestion for securing Europe and
regulating movement so that citizens have some degree of peace of mind that
countries are being pro-active rather than reactive.
Back to indy, Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond set
great store in the wisdom of Alex Bell, his gig was to run a new social model
for an independent Scotland; if you read the white paper which Joan McAlpine
tried to give the same status as the American Declaration of Independence.
There is no land of milk and honey under the Scottish
National Party, there is no nirvana, the dirty poor masses would woken up to
cuts; cuts and more cuts. Scotland
would have been devastated, Scotland
would see capital flight and investment put on hold or nosedive, the markets
would have taken the news of independence badly. If Scotland tried to sell bonds on the
open market, they would have to offer a high return.
No second oil boom, no Saudi
Arabia of renewables, we would be facing a situation much
like Greece
unable to function as we do now.
Why?
Because Alex Salmond and unpopular Nicola Sturgeon thought
that people would bet their future on the back of hot air and jolly fat man
grin as Salmond tried to make out he was your best pal. The Scotland that you
live in now would be gone, our council services already in trouble would be
badly damaged, services would curtailed; some would even have to go to the
wall.
If you think the health service is in trouble, try to imagine
it without proper funding, waiting times would be through the roof, people
would suffer and people would die. The story of the OAP who died on a trolley just
recently which made the press shocked people, post indy, many more would be
added to that growing list of problems.
When it’s your family, you don’t except excuses, so why
should the Nationalists accept the leadership putting their relatives in danger.
It’s because they don’t think, no true Scottish nationalist would accept the
poison pill offered by Nicola Sturgeon, at present, they don’t think, they
don’t ask questions, and they don’t care either.
If you do politics, you already know that the Scottish
independence bid was totally bogus, all of it was crap; one of my favourite
pieces of tripe was the fake guarantee that Soldiers could have jobs for life.
Soldiers have a shelf life on the front line, how many 65 year olds do you see
as front line soldiers?
Sheer nonsense!
One of the things which I also agree with Alex Bell on is
that the SNP lead a “morally dubious” government which opposed Tory cuts
without any credible alternative. Other than the infamous ‘tampax’ campaign to
save pennies when Nicola Sturgeon should be saving pounds, what progress as
Sturgeon made to make the lives of poor working class Scots better?
She had destroyed the chances of a poor working class Scots
getting a fair crack of the whip regards further and higher education, the
health services is falling apart because Sturgeon put her pal in charge, law
and order needs overhauled, Police Scotland was set up wrong and has suffered
ever since, the Police can’t even get their VAT back for FFS!
The SNP said its continuing case for “self-government for Scotland ”
is being backed by a growing number of Scots who are “angry” that the UK
Government “has not delivered on their vow of more powers”.
Angry?
Those poor dears, can you imagine them all sitting in a room
with a solitary candle, scarves warp round the necks silently weeping to be
shafted by Nicola Sturgeon as she rams their taxes up and makes their lives
worse. But taking comfort in the fact they are being screwed by someone in a
big house with an equally big salary who stays down the road in an affluent
Scottish area. Do you remember the clown who said she looks forward to the
“wisdom” of Nicola Sturgeon when she feels down, that would be funny if it
wasn’t so pathetic!
Everything that Nicola Sturgeon touches turns to shit!
In what must be an eye opener even for the most jaded of the
Nationalists, Mr. Bell trotted out this piece of advice:
“The SNP’s model of independence is broken beyond repair.
The party should either build a new one or stop offering it as an alternative
to Tory cuts. The campaign towards the 2014 vote, and the economic information
since, has kicked the old model to death. The idea that you could have a Scotland with
high public spending, low taxes, a stable economy and reasonable government
debt was wishful a year ago - now it is deluded.”
In case some people on welfare don’t understand that
information, allow me to explain, it means you were going to get your benefits
cut, less money would be in the economy so those who rely on foodbanks might
also find the local one has shut as cash dries up. Oh, and I have to say this,
remember that mortgage you are struggling to pay?
That just got higher!
When the bubble bursts on the housing market, you might find
the SNP elected MP Michelle Thomson at your door to buy your house at knock
down prices before the bank sells it out from under you.
Freedom……… to live in a tent!!!!!!!
“The fact is a gap exists - Scotland does not earn enough to
pay for its current level of spending. Once you accept that, you acknowledge
that the SNP’s model is broken.”
And the bit which really sticks the boot was when Bell clearly stated Scotland ’s long-serving Finance
Secretary John Swinney would be “unfit for the job”.
Unfit for the job and he was supposed to be the SNP’s most
prized asset, the man who was ‘competent’ with the nation’s finances.
And to echo my comments about how the SNP had a genuine lack
of talent and how they don’t give a toss about the poor, which I have repeated
till I was blue in the face, he said:
“Posing as the defender of the poor against Tories when you
have no credible alternative and don’t bother to research one is arguably
immoral. More so when there is an explicit party policy not to reverse all cuts
upon independence. The SNP’s ill-prepared version of independence does not
plausibly offer any real alternative.”
Remember, I said that Nicola Sturgeon is a shallow hollow
inept and entirely vacuous woman?
What do you think now; did I get it right as far back as
2012 on the blog?
Scottish Labour’s public services spokeswoman Jackie Baillie
said:
“This is an extraordinary intervention from the man who was
at the heart of the SNP’s campaign for separation. Alex Bell is absolutely
right to say that it is wrong for the SNP to claim they oppose Tory cuts but
offer no alternative.”
Scottish Conservative deputy leader Jackson Carlaw said:
“This is more confirmation that the SNP is merely a
propaganda machine which hopes it can trick people into thinking it is a
competent government. But looking at the failures in all the main devolved
areas such as health, education and justice - it’s clear it is anything but
that.”
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said:
“Immoral fools with no credible alternative is a powerful
condemnation from someone who knows the SNP leadership well.”
Finally, as I keep saying, the truth hurts, and Nicola
Sturgeon isn’t taking Scotland
forward, she is dragging it into the gutter, this country isn’t united, that is
another social model that is broken, but unlike any new indy plan, this is one
task that Sturgeon can’t repair.
Would you trust her with you future, because she is already
robbing you and your kids of it!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
13 comments:
Alex Bells article is full of lethal observations;
"SNP fine print makes it crystal clear that it will not reverse the dastardly Tory cuts on independence. It will not reverse the privatisations or the anti-union legislation of Thatcher and nor will it repair the cuts of Cameron and Osborne."
So much for the 'left wing and progressive' SNP then!
"That is not the same as being able to say the Scottish economy could afford British levels of spending, which was a significant plank of the Yes promise. That debatable point could be obscured by lots of noise, and the SNP is accomplished at shouting"
As we know!
"The idea that you could have a Scotland with high public spending, low taxes, a stable economy and reasonable government debt was wishful a year ago – now it is deluded."
Tell us something we don't know!
Full article here, and well worth a read!
http://rattle.scot/snp-independence-is-dead-start-again-or-shut-up
Hi Stuart
As I keep saying, everyone comes around to the George Laird view, it takes some people just a bit longer.
Did you notice that Labour MSP Graeme Pearson is calling for a new Holyrood committe for the Police, if people go through my back posts on Police Scotland, they will see that specific suggestion way before the Pearson review.
George
http://alicemooreuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/services-to-child-abuse-survivors-to-be.html
Georgeieboy SNP TO PRIVATISE CHILD CARE
It's nothing we didn't know George " but all the polls are high for independence " morons and poltroons not an original thought between the lot of them but their time will come eventually.
Heard on the news tonight that the first plane load of "refugees/maybe terrorists are landing in Scotland. After the shocking, murderous events in Paris last week, this folly is un-beleiveable. This plane load should be turned back. Other countries can now see the massive dangers posed by accepting these people. WE DON'T KNOW EHO THEY ARE, AND WE NEVER EILL UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE. Learn the lessons Sturgeon!!!!!!!!!!!, we hold YOU responsible.
From someone who knows.
Quality - thanks.
Sherbie, they will blame Westminster.
Go a read some of the comments at Wings. Alex Bell is now a nobody, nonperson, traitor, ill-informed etc etc. Yet this is the man praised as an "expert" when he was on their side. It shows the mindset of these people, and some have access to the very top of the SNP.
As to Police Scotland, a certain academic - best known for counting how many times Scotland is mentioned on the BBC - tears into the recent audit. I never knew he was an ex-senior police officer himself.
Alex Bell speaks the truth. Something Salmond never has and never will.
Any time the merest criticism of the SNP is voiced, the accusations fly. There are some who seriously, absolutely seriously, believe that the Referendum was fixed by the BBC and MI5.
The SNP is a propaganda machine. Most political parties are, and they all follow the model set up by Goebbels, who apart from being a murderous bastard, was also a genius at manipulating the media.
In a way, the SNP remind me of the Greens in Brighton. Very good at winning the votes to get into power, but then find themselves totally unsuited for government.
Health, Police and Education have all suffered under the SNP. As you point out George, can you imagine what things would have been like with a Yes vote?
We'll probably have to suffer them for another period of Government. But even the most extreme nationalists have openly said that they must win independence before 2020, because by then the SNP will be kicked out of power, as everything will have turned to shit.
Hi geo top article yet again, best read on the nats in scotland
Just a thought, but if Alex Bell knew it was all a sham, then what does that say for the likes of Salmond's 'Fiscal Commission' and Joe Stiglitz?
Let alone all the others on the Independence bandwagon...?
Hi stuart
it does raises interesting questions how much others suck into this did regarding research.
George
Hello George
I am not going to attempt to call the result of next year's Holyrood election. The snp may get a majority and they may not. They certainly don't deserve one. However, they should bear in mind that no political party can avoid the judgement of the people indefinitely. The Labour Party was hugely popular in Scotland for many decades. It took them a very long time to disconnect from the voters. The snp have enjoyed popularity for a much shorter period. When they fall, as they must and will, they will fall much more quickly and comprehensively than Labour. Wee nikky and her mates are living on borrowed time.
George,
I am amazed that the Bell revelations haven't led to the national and interntional media camped out on Sturgeon, Swinney, Hosie and Salmond's doorstep asking for answers. This is seismic, evidence that they tried and are stil trying to con an electorate into separation from the Union. I just hope theother parties hammer them at FMQ's
Cheers
Terry
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