SNP Fuelling Accelerated Decline; Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP demand immigration powers under the guise of avoiding cuts to public services, while at the same time using the lie that continual growth and independence solves everything, SNP can’t take care of Scotland’s homeless with even a bed for the night, immigration powers all about gerrymandering a second indy vote, but Westminster is wise to that trick

Dear All

There is a myth peddled by politicians, which on the face of it sounds goods but underneath is a rotting shell, it is the myth of ‘continual growth’. Continual growth in our economy, continual growth in the population and continual growth in wealth as a solution of all our ills! At some stage, just like filling a balloon with too much air, it will explode, and cause chaos, whether that be housing shortages, longer waiting times in health or fewer job opportunities. There will be major problems!

Ordinary people know this as a reality at the bottom end of society.

As part of the SNP strategy to cons Scots into voting for independence, the SNP employ the tactic of Dog-whistle politics. If you don’t know what that is, here is a simple explanation, Dog-whistle politics is political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an additional, different, or more specific resonance for a targeted subgroup. To that end, Nicola Sturgeon is targeting the UK Government in an attempt to wrestle control of immigration under the guise of growth, not just to pay for public services and their old favourite to bring in doctors etc to save our NHS.

To lie to Scots, the SNP like to use the NHS and the doctors gag, to portray that they are interested in saving lives.

The real reason for the SNP wanting immigration powers is to flood the country with poor people and use them for voting purposes to support them and their farce of independence. They say that Scotland is facing a “demographic crisis” that could leave it struggling to pay for public services, the SNP have withheld money from Councils which is the reason that they struggle to pay for public services. The SNP also aren’t generating wealth in Scotland and after making it the highest tax place in the UK, they have made it unattractive as a destination.

And that doesn’t even touch on the SNP systematic failure to govern right across the board. We have all seen as people that we are struggling to get health care, social care, jobs, housing and even the grass getting cut and the bins emptied.

Scotland is becoming a slum.  

Apparently the SNP say we need 500,000 extra citizens which is just over what they need to win a second indyref. The SNP having abandoned the ‘we could be a rich country like Ireland and Norway’ is using these countries again to float the idea that population growth is good. Population growth from immigrants has been a disaster, Europe experienced growth all right in rape, murder, crime gangs and terrorism. The laugh that Scotland is exposed to any post-Brexit decline in numbers is fanciful, people don’t come here from Europe because we are in the EU, the EU isn’t a safeguard of anything; they come looking for work. They also don’t come because the SNP claim there is some sort of Scottish exceptionalism working here, that we are better than the English.

So, what will this new SNP analysis actually achieve, well it will achieve nothing, the SNP burnt their bridges with the UK government a long time ago and with Westminster. In order to advance, you need goodwill, and the SNP don’t have any credit with that to draw on. The UK government will not give Nicola Sturgeon powers over immigration, no matter what form or scenario she paints.

This analysis is just a grievance document.

And tomorrow, it will not even register in the minds of Scots, in fact, if it wasn’t for the press, this document wouldn’t even see the light of day.

The SNP know that they are not going to get immigration powers which is why SNP MSP Linda Fabiani said:

“Scotland urgently needs to grow our population – or we face a demographic timebomb over coming decades that could make it seriously challenging to fund public services like the NHS. But the Tories – who created a self-proclaimed ‘hostile environment’ for migrants and now want to throw up more barriers by leaving the EU – are taking entirely the wrong approach. It is increasingly obvious that Scotland needs our own powers over migration and the means to grow our population. “Independence will give Scotland the power to take decisions in our own interests – to grow our population, give young people opportunities for a better life and reject the failed approach of the Tories.”

Did you notice the NHS reference, the Tories ‘bad’ reference and independence solves everything reference?

Given the current waiting time for treatment in the NHS, how much more strain would the system be under if 500,000 people were suddenly dropped into Scotland? Where is the housing stock to shelter them, where are the jobs, where are the extra schools, where are the places for them to get a GP? How would the Council services cope with a high influx of low skill immigrants?

The answer to all the questions is of course badly.

Given the state of our public services both local and nationally, we shouldn’t be talking about population growth, but rather we should be talking about internal reforms and the  re-skilling of our people through education.

So, for some light reading;

https://psmag.com/magazine/fallacy-of-endless-growth

https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/myth-4-all-you-need-growth

Finally, what is at work here is a fraud, immigration is a good thing, but too much is bad. If you take the example of the slum in Govnahill Glasgow managed by the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and run by the SNP Council which has a high immigrant population, it is a colourful and diverse place to live, it is a rat and bedbug infested shithole, teaming with crime and unemployment. Endless growth in this area didn’t produce a better or fairer place to live and work. It produced somewhere where public services and bodies are unable to cope. It produced despair and fear in the residents.

Finally, there is a saying, charity beings at home, recently the SNP Council cut funding to help Glasgow’s homeless to the tune of £2.6 million, this was done at the Glasgow City Integration Joint Board, which Sturgeon’s dug, Mhairi Hunter co-chairs, the board unanimously agreed in May to cut £2.6m from third sector organisations providing homeless beds. As they are unwilling to take care of Scots, we can assume that immigration powers aren’t for making Scotland better or fairer but more for another sinister purpose. trying to gerrymander another Scottish referendum which the SNP already know they can’t win based on their arguments which have already been rejected. 

Yours sincerely

George Laird

The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University