Dear All
It maybe Friday, it maybe the SNP’s
election launch, but scaremongering takes centre stage as Nicola Sturgeon
pledges that the SNP want to put a bill before Westminster to protect the NHS
from trade deals with foreign nations, saying it is “not for sale at any
price”. So, the question is protection from whom?
The UK Government
The Americans
The Man on the moon
To be real for the sake of clarity, no UK
mainstream political party with any sense of self preservation would privatise the
NHS. The health service is so much a part of the national psyche that even a
hint of privatization would be political suicide. And strong supporters of the
NHS exist in every party; it is a crown jewel of the UK which says who we are.
You need help, you get help. You would have also thought that since health is
devolved in Scotland why would the SNP care about the health service in the
rest of the UK?
They don’t care, never did, I see this bill
as a ruse, a ruse in part to make a case for Nicola Sturgeon to get into the
leader’s debates on television by
presenting the SNP as UK party rather than a regional party.
Why haven’t we heard about the NHS
Protection Bill before now, after all, it is nearly 3 years and half years
since the EU Referendum took place! Clearly, it doesn’t take a lot of time to
construct a bill of this sort. There is even a mechanism in the House of
Commons called the 10 minute rule Bill procedure which can be used. So, why
have they sat on this, because the SNP is all about short term gimmicks and
vision, a like a set of stones to leapfrog across a pond in the hope of not
getting their feet wet.
A simple ruse!
As I have mentioned before, any SNP
manifesto pledges are utterly meaningless. If you want to know why, you just
have to look at the BBC parliament channel and see how the SNP act at
Westminster. In a recent exchange in the House of Commons when SNP leader Ian
Blackford got to his feet, more or less the entire House rose and left. The parliamentarians
of other parties have no time for the SNP. Even the leader of the House Jacob
Rees-Mogg did a runner, turning to bow on the way out the door. When the only SNP
noise is grievance and petty games, people want to switch off, or in this case,
show their opponents a clear pair of heels.
This scaremongering proposed Bill is plainly
electioneering, attempt to rally the troops and votes, and given the SNP vote
share is dropping in elections, fear is the SNP’s instrument of choice. You
have seen this before, campaign on an issue that doesn’t exist, that way they
don’t have to do any work beyond sound bites. This is a paper campaign, a cheap
and squalid nasty little trick which is designed to deceive Scottish voters.
Given that Boris Johnson and Donald Trump
have said the NHS is not at risk from any future UK-US trade deal. You already
know that the SNP paper campaign can go nowhere. You might find like many
promises by SNP politicians that the scaremongering Bill will simply disappear
post election. One interesting thing; is that at some level, Nicola Sturgeon
and her crew are acknowledging that the UK is leaving the EU. Another
acknowledgement appears to be that the SNP already suspect what the outcome of
the UK election will be and who will be sitting in Number 10 after it.
Donald Trump isn’t a fool which is why he
stated the NHS is not “up for grabs” in any trade deal.
In the world of mixed messages, partly
created by political inbreeding Sturgeon said:
“A vote for the SNP is a vote to
escape Brexit and to give people in Scotland the chance to choose a
better future as an independent country so we never have to worry about our NHS
being sold off by a Westminster government. The NHS in Scotland is
run in Scotland, for Scotland and under the SNP it will always be in public
hands. Our NHS is not for sale at any price. And while the Scottish Parliament
has control of health policy, we cannot currently stop Westminster signing away
that protection in a trade deal, or entering agreements that dramatically push
up drug prices or risk our public services, including the NHS”.
There is so much verbal rubbish in her
statement, but let’s explain it. Nicola Sturgeon won’t be getting a Section 30
order from Westminster, so her babbling about wanting an independent Scotland
is all about increasing her longevity as SNP leader.
It’s all about the Scottish FM roubles!
The next statement is also meaningless
because parties change; remember the SNP went from anti Nato to pro Nato. This
is therefore a worthless promise by Nicola Sturgeon; no one who is a future
leader will be bound to any of her promises. Her third pitch is to again return
to fear, just in case the suckers she is targeting don’t get the first two imaginary
points to sink in well enough.
Sturgeon added:
“Boris Johnson has been very clear about
his desire for a post-Brexit trade deal with Donald Trump – and no-one should
underestimate the threat which that poses. So in order to deal with that
immediate threat from the Tories’ post-Brexit plans, the SNP will bring forward
a Bill that would protect the NHS across the whole of the UK from ever being
harmed by a Tory-Trump trade deal. Our NHS is there to care for and protect us
– now it’s our turn to stand up and protect the NHS.”
Once the UK leaves the EU, the UK will be
doing trade deals with the EU, America and the rest of the world…… for our
benefit. And, when those benefits start to roll in, Nicola Sturgeon will see
her indy dream well and truly sunk.
Finally, at today’s launch was Alyn Smith,
MEP who is a candidate standing in Stirling, he knows the writing is on the
wall hence he is attempt to bail out of the EU for safer shores at Westminster.
Ironically, at today’s SNP launch, he is photographed despite a sign saying ‘Stop
Brexit’, obviously he places no faith in that particular campaign idea hence
the attempt to jump ship to Westminster. As I told him at a BBC radio show,
time to prepare for EU unemployment, after squirming about he is effectively
acknowledging the jig’s up!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
5 comments:
Good to have you back George. Enjoy your observations. The sooner scotland wakes up to the ghastliness of nationalism, the better. I cannot understand how people have been fooled by it for so long. Any comment on that? Regards, Noreen
Unless you have deliberately used the common misquote
It's a DAMP SQUIB, not a squid.
Dear Unknown
I wanted to use damp squid, because their campaign is like a cold wet Cephalopod trying to get its tentacles into every voter. Sturgeon is rather fishy don't you know.
Geo
Great to see you back George. I've been lurking on a certain website and can't believe the shit some of them post. You would think independence is a shoe in. Let's give them a kick up the arse and use tactical voting where possible.
George might be referring to her handshake. Welcome back George, I hope you are fully recovered.
Cheers
Terry
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