Dear All
Holyrood is full of crap MSPs.
This revelation isn’t new, but it gets drowned out by the
phoney politics exhibited in the place.
Just as people are waking up to the concept of #fakenews
thrust on us by the media, the fakery also extends to politics.
A classic example of #fakepolitics is the campaign to save
Glasgow Jobcentres from closure. The Labour Party for example knew 9 months ago
that Anniesland Jobcentre was closing but kept quiet about it.
Any proof?
The application for turning the jobcentre into flats was
submitted to Glasgow City Council, it had to be passed by Councillors.
9 months ago.
It is only now that that the political parties such as
Scottish Labour, the SNP and the Scottish Greens are speaking up.
Why were they quiet in the past?
Are we to assume that that Glasgow Councillors didn’t pass
this information onto MPs and MSPs? And if they did, why did they keep quiet?
The reason is simple; helping the poor is a low priority for
Scotland’s political elite, unless there is mileage in running a campaign to
dupe unemployed working class people into getting their votes.
I will not be ‘joining’ the campaign to stop Glasgow Jobcentre
closures because the campaign is a con; its all ‘fake’ and nothing can be done
about it. If I was to campaign I would
be just as big a fraud doing #fakepolitics as the rest of people promoting
this farce.
If there is a campaign worth supporting it is the janitors’ campaign in Glasgow.
If there is a campaign worth supporting it is the janitors’ campaign in Glasgow.
Janitors are fighting the Labour council ALEO Cordia which
is effectively trying to screw them out of money and conditions. In the past I
wasn’t a supporter of the ALEOs created by the Labour Council and I am still
aren’t, councils should run public services and protect their staff. The reason
they don’t is because of the poor state of Scottish politics and Holyrood in particular.
The political elite always take the easy route to ‘save’ money and that is done
by cutting staff and budgets under the lie of ‘savings’.
Holyrood is a major disappointment, it is as many people note
full of third rate politicians who are little more than drones, they take the
money and just sit there.
Jack McConnell was a former Labour First Minster, he lost
the Scottish election in 2007, here is an interview which shows that Scottish
Labour’s problems have existed for a rather long time, please watch both parts
of the video.
And of course, the epic car crash of Jack McConnell interviewed
by Bernard Ponsonby is also worth a watch.
The World spins on its axis and people get replaced but as
we have seen not by better, Jack McConnell lost to the SNP rather badly, like
many politicians; he didn’t keep an eye on the day job or a finger on the pulse
of the people.
And paid the price!
Did Scottish Labour deserve to lose in 2007?
Yes; they did deserve to lose, and the trajectory of the
party has kept declining downwards because the same type of people keep getting
picked from the same group.
Jack McConnell says MSPs must put constituents above party
loyalty.
For the avoidance of doubt, this will not happen in the SNP
or in Scottish Labour; the Labour councillors aren’t going to support the
workers against ALEO Cordia and neither the elected party members who are the Glasgow
list Labour MSPs. If it is workers being treated badly by a Labour Council ALEO
then elected representatives are all signed up to following group decisions whether
they are right or wrong.
The Labour Councillors are wrong on the janitor situation just
as they are wrong on the G51 Parking and the attempt to outsource IT facilities
all of which is against the interests of the public.
If you want to speak out, you can in the Labour Group but
you can’t do so publicly, it is the same in all parties. If I had been selected
by Labour as a candidate, I wouldn’t be able to speak out about the Glasgow
rail link project which is a turkey, I would have to keep my mouth shut and
lump it.
As an independent, I don’t, I don’t support the attempt to
get the failed Glasgow rail link project back on its feet, too costly and I don’t
see a case to support it, other parts of the City plan for Glasgow I might
support in the interests of jobs if the jobs are long term.
Jack McConnell says Holyrood needs radical reform to make
sure the Scottish Government is held properly to account.
The important reform that is needed in Holyrood is an end to
the list system which allows people not elected by the public to become a
political representative; this is a disgrace that the general public cannot
remove these people.
Jack McConnell always wants the committees to be given more
power, you can argue the toss on the merits of that idea over the quality of
the MSPs already there in place, more power to an idiot only makes a situation
worse does it not?
As to the idea of the parliamentary day should be more
flexible, the current crop of MSPs fill their day up doing not an awful lot as
it is.
The next point of backbenchers should be encouraged to give
their first loyalty to the parliament and their constituents, not their
parties.
This is bogus, it won’t happen and it cannot happen, MSPs
sign up to follow group orders just as MPs and Councillors do.
Jack McConnell says he doesn’t support the idea of a second
chamber at Holyrood or an increase in the number of MSPs. I would go along with
those ideas at present, a second chamber would be filled with worse dross than
currently sitting on the Holyrood benches, and there is no case to increase
MSPs.
It seems that I do concur with Jack McConnell on the need
for better MSPs when he stated:
“The solution is not more MSPs, its better MSPs, better
procedures, hard work and proper scrutiny.”
Lord McConnell said: “There does need to be a check on the
power of ministers and the government. I believed that as first minister and I
proposed changes then.
“I believe, if anything, the evidence has grown and
strengthened that case over the last 15 years. The immediate thing
to do is to strengthen the role of the backbench MSP and create a culture where
they know they are there to represent their constituents."
Finally, please watch the videos which I have listed because
it shows a symptom of what Scottish Labour’s problems are, people proposing changes
and when questioned don’t know what they are talking about because they electioneering
not developing policy.
As Bernard Ponsonby said:
“The answer is you don’t know”!
If you asked Jack McConnell how his idea of how to create a
culture where MSPs know they are there to represent their constituents, you
have to ask why a culture needs to be created in the first place.
Isn’t that what they were supposed to be doing all along?
The most important reform to Holyrood is the removal of the
list system and the creation of 129 constituencies.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
I remember McConnell in the early 80s. He was a Tory infiltrator, a Blairite before Blair. A traitor to the Labour party and working class Scots. Its creeps like him that has made the Lie@bour party unelectable. Aye, it’s the truth and the SNP are no better.
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