Friday, March 19, 2021

The Day the Scottish Ministerial Code No Longer Exists; Disgraced SNP Leader Nicola Sturgeon refuses to resign after Holyrood Inquiry says she 'misled parliament' over the Alex Salmond affair, her corrupt Crown Office, the 'Wolffe Pack' is actively hunting down publishers on the internet and threatening them with legal action if they don't remove evidence against her, the emergence of a legal Waffen SS to censor the press shows Scotland is a failed State and that UK Government intervention is vital, necessary and urgent















Dear All 

The SNP answer to being exposed in the Salmond scandal is to bring forward measures for more oppression, and injustice. To give their diseased policies, the appearance of being legitimate, they have roped in third parties to help do their dirty work. Organisations which they effectively control by funding. Scotland is becoming like Europe, not the Europe of 2021, but the Europe of the 1940's under Nazi occupation. Dissent is not tolerated against the SNP, free speech and free expression is being banned, and the Crown Office, the corrupt legal Waffen SS of the Sturgeon regime is on the march! Just had Hitler and Karl Donitz had their 'wolf packs' patrolling the shipping lanes in the North Atlantic, Sturgeon has her 'Wolffe pack' patrolling the internet, like the Nazis, the 'Wolffe pack' based in the Crown Office is looking for vulnerable victims. 

The victims' crime, telling the truth! 

So far, due to budget constraints, it is highly unlikely if Sturgeon's corrupt legal Waffen SS get you into court and fitted up, you will be put into a political re-education camp. You will have to make do with prison as a 'prisoner of political conscience'. It is entirely reasonable to expect a slew of political and press convictions will be coming down the pipeline as a warning to others. I think everyone who has watched the Salmond scandal is clear that the Scottish Government is corrupt, the Crown Office in Scotland is corrupt, and both work hand in glove. Just recently, an oppression story in Scotland, and in a university caught my eye, a female student was banned from Aberdeen University's union for two weeks for 'discrimination'. Her crime was saying 'Rule Britannia' during a debate on the British Army. The crime of free speech is now in place in Scotland's Universities, at least at Student Union level. How long before this moves from the student union into the main university campus and becomes policy is anyone's guess. Elizabeth Heverin, 19, received the ban after quoting the historic anthem prompted another student to complain.  

Miss Heverin (the victim) said: 

'It feels like I've been prosecuted for the crime of being patriotic, it's scary to think where freedom of speech at the university will go from here.'  

Over the years, we have seen the growth of anti English and anti UK rhetoric flourish in Scotland, the storm troopers being the cybernats, the personal SA of the SNP leadership. The SNP's Sturmabteilung which translates as literally "Storm Detachment", is the SNP's original paramilitary wing who march around in big groups waving flags, and abusing anyone suspected of being pro UK. They patrol social media checking up on the disloyal, the enemies of the Sturgeon regime, they sit, they watch, they record, they wait. They are always there in the light and in the shadows, like a secret subsection of the SNP movement. 

In the Aberdeen University debate, we get to learn the mindset of the changing face of oppression, students discussed renewing a union policy on a de-militarised campus. This measure would actively bar military personnel from recruiting students. As someone who taught students at university, why should a minority impose their will on the majority just because they hold a small unrepresentative position of power. The Armed services of the United Kingdom represents not only a career path but also a chance to serve our country and stand ready to help others. Why should a minority seek to deny people of all colours and faiths this opportunity. This is the problem in modern Universities intolerance of others to amass power, common known as student union bullshit. One can only hope that those who have banned Miss Heverin get outed and that any future employer finds out as well, and makes a suitable decision on whether someone so intolerant has any place in their business. 

Another gem of intolerance with more potential for harm is the idea of specialist courts in Scotland that should be set up to deal with the most serious sex crimes. But here is the rub, there is a suggestion that cases will be heard by a single judge with no jury. We have a corrupt Scottish Government, we have a corrupt Crown Office, the last piece of the puzzle for a foolproof setup for convictions is a corrupt judge. Can you wrap your head around SNP Judges? How are judges picked, well they are appointed by the Queen, on recommendation of the First Minister. The Queen is just a rubber stamp, you see the real work is done by  the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland (JABS). And who appoints the members? The board is chaired by a lay member, who is appointed to the position by the Scottish Ministers. It might take some time but in theory over time, we could see SNP Judges on the benches, loyal to the SNP. This is because of the input of the First Minister, and we already know that Nats are in public bodies and the legal profession. 

You could have a situation in criminal trials in Scotland where you are accused by an SNP member of a sex crime, you get charged and fitted up by Sturgeon's corrupt legal Waffen SS of the Crown Office. In cuffs brought before a court in front of an SNP judge with no protection from a jury. Do you think if Alex Salmond was retried under this system, he would walk free? I don't think so, to me the system would be open to abuse. Here is a video clip of 1940's German criminal trial by one of the most famous Nazi Judges Roland Freisler. You might think, that couldn't happen here, after seeing the attempted stitch up of Alex Salmond by people close to Nicola Sturgeon, are you so sure? In order to get a fool proof corrupt system in place, you need the three key parts. False witnesses, corrupt Crown Office and an SNP Judge with no jury. Only two parts where available to Team Sturgeon. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNi5256dhvM 

To get a foolproof system akin to a witch trial where accusation equals guilt takes time, so what they have to do is say that a review is needed as part of a shake-up of how Scottish courts deal with rape and other sexual offences cases. Then the SNP talk to what is termed Stakeholders which is code for people that will support their views. One thing we seen in the Salmond case was how quick Rape Crisis Scotland funded by the SNP Government was used as a platform to smear Alex Salmond by the 'alphabet women'. Under proposals, you might see the presumed use of pre-recorded evidence and sentencing powers of up to 10 years imprisonment. Any evidence in a criminal trial must be open to challenge does this mean that pre-recorded evidence will be assumed to be indisputable fact? I don't know but it is worth asking the question now surely? 

Although the idea to rule out juries isn't fleshed out, among the panel's other ideas is for juries to be given "plain language directions". This is to be done with a pilot programme looking at how jurors can be told about rape myths and stereotypes. To me, this is bullshit, it isn't evidence, and as such has no place in any trial. What are rape myths and stereotypes, I found an article for you to read which explains the thinking, but trials are about evidence, we shouldn't allow unrelated opinion to replace it. One idea is that the right for the complainer not to be identified should also be expressly set out in legislation, so should the right be extended also to the accused? In the Salmond scandal, how does Lady Dorrian's review deal with malicious complainers? Should a malicious complainer be allowed to walk away and hide behind court anonymity? What provision has the review put in place for that? I can see how the proposals would improve the way cases are handled for complainers, but it doesn't appear to be weighed in fairness for the accused and witnesses. Is it that the accused and witnesses are only entitled to second class justice? 

Dorrian said: 

"We decided that we really needed to start from the ground up. If we started afresh what would the court to deal with these cases look like? We have made recommendations which we believe will fundamentally change and improve the way sexual offences are prosecuted in Scotland." 

Lady Dorrian said increasing conviction rates in sex crime cases "was not a driving force" behind the group's recommendations, so why does it appear that all the stakeholders are women's advocacy groups? Of course there is no advocacy groups for rapists, but where and who were the stakeholders brought in to put a counter view to Rape Crisis Scotland, Scottish Women's Aid, Victim Support Scotland and the Crown Office? The role of the Crown Office is to convict people in a trial, not support the accused, just ask Alex Salmond. The Crown Office used the 'moorov doctrine' because they thought quantity would see them get a conviction on the basis so many charges would secure at least one or more convictions. If you throw enough shit maybe some of it will stick or at least leave a smell. In the funny article by Craig Murray called First Yes Minister, he mentions this in part of a well written piece, well worth a read. 

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/01/yes-minister-fan-fiction/ 

I like the bit in the middle, I enjoyed that a lot: 

"Minister I don’t have that many friends, Permanent Secretary. I spend all my time reading books. (Canned Laughter).
Perm Sec Oh really, Minister, think. You must have some women very close to you.
Minister Well, there is Miss Barclay, my own Private Secretary.
Perm Sec Perfect, Minister perfect! Miss Barclay should be good for at least four allegations! Get her to say he tried to kiss her. Often.
Minister But surely nobody will believe my own Private Secretary – and she was involved in putting the dossier together and in discussions on handling the case. Nobody is going to believe her. And (gasps in horror) it really leads straight back to me being behind it, doesn’t it?
Perm Sec It can’t be traced back to you, Minister.
Minister Phew, that’s a relief. It can’t be traced back to me you say. How does that work?
Perm Sec Accuser anonymity, Minister.
Minister Accuser anon… oh yes! Oh yes! I am beginning to see!! They are sexual allegations so…
Perm Sec The identities of the accusers can be kept hidden by the court under penalty of severe jail sentences for anybody who reveals them so…
Minister …the accusers can just be my closest political cronies and the public will never be aware of that! That’s brilliant, Perm Sec!
Perm Sec Thank you, Minister (Canned Laughter)" 

Comedy where would be without it? 

In the last 24 hours, something dramatic has happened, akin to someone blowing off the shithouse door with someone sitting inside. There has been a leak from possible someone inside the Salmond Inquiry, the question to ask before I get to the contents of the leak is, who does the leak benefit? This should occupy your thoughts a few minutes, the leak is said to be that the Salmond Inquiry has come to the conclusion that  First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had been found to have “misled Parliament” about her role in the Alex Salmond investigation. The leak benefits Nicola Sturgeon, and that bring me to a sky news interview of her being doorstep. In the clip, Sturgeon jumps right out of the car and straight into what seems to be a prepared narrative, something which others all over twitter have taken up. Look at the clip and the way she gets out of the car, rips the mask and goes straight into her narrative, where was the lag, where was the down time to consider matters? To me, all of this had the hallmarks of prepared strategy. The denial, the accusations, the blaming of others, contrast that grasp of facts with her performance in front of the Salmond Inquiry, 'couldn't remember', 'don't know the answer', 'not that I can recall'

The headline Nicola Sturgeon 'misled parliament' over Alex Salmond affair, inquiry although accurate doesn't tell you the whole picture. A better headline, more accurate is that the entire SNP membership of the Salmond Inquiry all sided with Nicola Sturgeon. The fight back by Sturgeon and the SNP has already begun, for example the #IstandwithNicola nonsense, like a ready meal, it was popped onto twitter and started trending really quickly. So, what is it the people are who are backing Nicola Sturgeon are actually backing? 

1/ That Nicola Sturgeon can lie as First Minister

2/ That the Scottish Government is corrupt.

3/ That the Crown Office is corrupt, and a tool of victimisation

4/ That evidence can be withheld from a Parliamentary Inquiry

5/ That witnesses can be withheld from a Parliamentary Inquiry

6/ That evidence can be withheld from a Court

7/ That the ministerial code doesn't apply to the SNP

8/ That innocent people can be stitched up at a Governmental level

9/ That innocent people can be taken to Court to be stitched up 

That's what the #IstandwithNicola brigade are backing, too stupid to protect their democracy, because of a simpleton notion that Nicola is their 'pal' and she wouldn't do it to them. That type of thinking in my mind makes them, the dumbest bastards walking the face of the earth. You can already see the way things are going, Nicola Sturgeon won't resign, effectively the ministerial code to regulate the behaviour of ministers no longer exists. Sturgeon has declared herself innocent, and her corrupt Crown Office is actively engaged in trying to force people to take down evidence of what actually happened in the Salmond scandal. Guido Fawkes was threatened by the Crown Office to take down evidence in the public domain on his website, he took the tack to tell them to shove it. This was one kill that the 'Wolffe pack' wasn't going to be able to make in the murky waters of the internet. 

Finally, Scotland has become a failed State, the signposts between it and Nazi Germany are glowingly obvious now. Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: 

"We cannot set a precedent that a First Minister of Scotland can mislead the Scottish Parliament and get away with it. We have to trust that the First Minister will be truthful. We no longer can. We have called out the First Minister based on the overwhelming evidence that she misled Parliament. We will continue to hold her to the same standards as previous First Ministers of Scotland and demand that she resigns." 

The precedent Douglas Ross speaks about has already been set, it was set when Nicola Sturgeon jumped out of her Ministerial car outside her home in Baillieston, Glasgow, and laid the foundations of the denial, the accusations, the blaming of others. What is needed is UK Government intervention, not letters of concerns, appeals to decency, appeals to conform to public standards, it's too late for that option. The way to go is to have a full UK investigation and an external judge led inquiry with sanctions, this means control returned to Westminster. Removal of civil servants both in the Scottish Government and Crown Office pending external investigation. That is where we need to be, not just tinkering with the Scotland Act, not just granting parliamentary immunity, root and branch reforms coupled with full UK investigation and an external of Scotland judge led inquiry. Let's stop thinking that the house can remain on a foundation of sand, let's pour the concrete in so that there is no way that this scandal can ever happen again. And for the record, let's make sure guilty people cannot walk away from this one either! It is time to restore justice in Scotland, and when we do, 'let's give it laldy'!

Yours sincerely 

George Laird                                                                                                                                The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

28 comments:

Anonymous said...

“If you’re going to have integrity in the Westminster Parliament or the Scottish Parliament, breaches of the ministerial code in either parliament ought to lead to a resignation,” - Kier Starmer.

Also, Guido Fawkes have been threatened by the Chinese, Saudi and North Korean Governments and they pay no heed. Why should they?

Andrew Neil is encouraging David Davis to introduce more revelations at Westminster to counteract any attempts to silence the free press by the Scottish Crown Office.

The tragedy here is that deep down, the Scottish legal profession is sound and honest. That's always the reputation it enjoyed worldwide and it is why it is taught in so many of our Universities. The gragedy of the last 5 or 6 years is that this reputation has now been tarnished needlessly. You forgot to mention Humza Yousaf; when a tool like him becomes Justice Minister, you know it is time to stop.

From a public perpective, we elected folk as MSP's and trusted them to do their best for us and to represent us. Too many of them have sat on their arses and taken the money.

As you say, it's time for Westminster to step-in now and, persoanlly speaking, I would trust the Met before I would trust Police Scotland any day.

Anonymous said...

...and balding gangster Swinney looking manacing with intent again in your photograph. He's actually quite a small featherweight chap who wouldn't knowingly frighten anyone. It doesn't dtop him from trying though.

"Nicola Sturgeon has blasted the latest leaks by the Holyrood committee on the handling of harassment complaints, accusing MSPs of having resorted to “baseless assertion, supposition and smear”.

She's up against people now who are forensically examining the evidence. David Davis, for example. There is a hardcore SNP supporter base of around 30% who will just listen to sounbites like this one and that's all they need to keep them on-side.

The other 70% are more circumspect. By this time, many of them will still not have pieced it all together, the alphabet women and who they are, who Rape Crisis Scotland are and how they are funded, and all the rest of it. But, they know more already that Sturgeon wants them to know.

Elections are all about momentum and, as well as sites like this one, there are plenty of journalists out there who can see that this is another Watergate. I've always thought that. In Watergate, it wasn't the crime it was the cover-up that sent 30 or 40 members of the US Gov to jail.

Anonymous said...

That's it. Time to shut up shop. It probably sounded like a good idea back in 1998, but it's clearly a failed experiment. It's like watching Gordon Ramsay investigating a restaurant on 'Kitchen Nightmares', and it's full of bugs and rotten food. The inquiry is Gordon Ramsay, Sturgeon and her mob are the SNP in denial.

The UK government needs to close it down and Sturgeon and her hate-filled, intolerant, corrupt, pervert mates of the SNP should be prosecuted and (hopefully) sent to prison.

Anonymous said...

Roddy Dunlop came out of this mess looking OK...I don't know if you agree? My impression of Scottish law is that its reputation has fallen off the cliff edge this past year and not without good reason. At the level of Roddy Dunlop there continue to be committed and ethical lawyers keen to do their job of offering public protection and a public service. I don't know how many lawyers are up to scratch as he is, but my guess is it would be the comfortable majority of them.

It is at the level above that, James Wolffe and Humza Yousaf, where the rot has set-in. They seem to have got-at the legal profession so that it follows an SNP line and if they don't follow that SNP line, they all go hungry. A dreadful situation you will agree. It means that when you go and see a lawyer with a case that could be seen as damaging to the SNP movement, your case is deliberately derailed by a lickspittal lawyer.

I know you have had a run-in with an arsehole lawyer before and it marked you for life. I have had a similar run-in with an arsehole lawyer and it has marked me for life too. Surely there is a case for the legal profession to be put under Special Measures until such times as they can sort themselves out?

It makes you wonder what the fuck gets taught at Scottish University law schools, doesn't it.

Anonymous said...

Speaking while on a two-day visit to Scotland, Sir Keir said: “By making those comments before she’s seen the report, she’s doing the very thing that she’s accusing others of.

“The right thing for her to do is to wait for the report and to read the report – as we all will.

“But to say now, several days beforehand, what she said about the outcome is to do exactly what she’s accusing other people of doing.

“So I think the right thing to do is to wait for the report.

“If the report does come to serious findings then they have implications.”

Anonymous said...

"The Scottish Labour leader has been presented with incontrovertible evidence yet has resorted to a vow of silence. “

"None of the questions posed have been answered, none of the issues settled. “

"Wendy Alexander certainly can't hide behind an electoral commission inquiry and likely forthcoming police inquiry without answering any of the obvious questions; who knew what, when and how."

So said Nicola Sturgeon of Wendy Alexander over a dodgy £950 donation thirteen years ago. Fabulous.

Anonymous said...

https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2021/03/18/jim-sillars-hits-out/

From Jim Sillars....this Liz Lloyd character sounds like another Holyrood nutter. 'I'll attend your Inquiry but only if I can have two lawyers and only if you don't ask me certain questions.'

Chief of Staff is an Americanism really. Wee hairys fae Dreghorn shouldn't have a Chief of Staff because they just get up to no good. They just get into trouble, meddling in things they do not understand...like the law.

Also, I see he shares your disgust and dismay at James Wolffe, but don't we all .

Anonymous said...

That new UK Gov building in Edinburgh is big enough to run Scotland. They've got that now, plus St Andrews House and Victoria Quay. As someone said earlier, just close Holyrood. It's just nuisance value anyway. Not a single thing of any value to Scots gets done there.

It will give us a chance to directly fund our Councils and target and reduce this disgraceful homelessness, drugs death, low mortality and crap education spiral that we are now just on. It always worked in the past, in the days before Holyrood.

It was an experiment and most of us looked upon it pragmatically. But, they've been kidding us and they have bought the media and law in Scotland so that it has become a self-perpetuating gravy-train. Even folk who are supposed to be good actually do very little; a fraction of what they are supposed to do.

Different, more critical and less gullable eyes are looking at it now. We've always had folk like Jim Sillars and Gordon Dangerfield but they are, by their own admission, fringe characters. Once Kier Starmer and David Davis and Andrew Neil start looking at this it will change dramatically and quickly.

Anonymous said...

Great to see Sturgeon on the BBC 6 news headlining for all the wrong reasons. Something just not right about Sarah Smith though. I just cannot see her doing a hatchet job on Sturgeon. I think she should be covering education of something like that. Something less stressful. Upset Swinney, Wishart and the Perthsire SNP fuseliers and you end-up getting your windows panned-in. I think Sarah Smith knows that. Anyway, Sarah Smith or not, I think that Sturgeon is now a goner.

Anonymous said...

Remember the Grenfell fire? It must have happened 4-years ago now and in England they set about rectifying buildings straight away. The Scottish Government on the other hand has done nothing.

The UK Government sent us £100m and told us to get-on with it but instead of doing that we have done nothing at-all. People are stuck in buildings which have a zero value and others are worried about fire safety.

Some major buildings are affected and it makes you wonder just what good Holyrood is to Scots because without Holyrood, work would already have started and we would be keeping pace with England.

Anonymous said...

'Legal advice provided to Holyrood around the legality of publishing Alex Salmond’s submission on the ministerial code will be kept secret, it has emerged.' - The Scotsman. Due to it not being in the 'public interest.' Another personal confection of James Wolffe. Welcome to the law of Uganda or the Congo.

Anonymous said...

How could any UK government allow another independence referendum under the current circumstances - there is no democracy in Scotland at present; the civil service, legal system, MSM, and Police Scotland all stained and utterly complicit in the SNP poison?

Under these circumstances you would normally start naming names. In Scotland, where do you start. I suppose that under the present circumstances, Andy Wightman comes over as one of the honest guys and a few days ago I would never have expected that.

I reckon that Holyrood has bared its teeth at Sturgeon because it now has to. Too many people are looking on at this fandango and saying 'what the fuck is going on there?' There must be a real possibility that someone will stand-up at Westminster and question its future role in the governance of Scotland. It is so obviously corrupt it will inevitably lead to deaths.

Anonymous said...

I hear that the Tories at Holyrood will hold a VoNC in Sturgeon on Wednesday if she doesn't resign on Tuesday. Very much what is needed because Sturgeon, Swinney and all the rest of them are just determined to carry-on as if nothing has happened.

Anonymous said...

You've got to ask when Alister Jack is going to make his voice heard? The SNP have been softened-up by Liam Fox and David Davis but still not a peep from Alister Jack. This is his gig now, surely? Secretary of State for Scotland - I can remember when they used to be on TV all the time on the 6 o'clock news and all the rest of it. What's wrong with this guy? - the SNP are all over the place just now, just knock them-out and push them over. Scots will thank him for it. Most of us know that Holyrood is dead. Is he leaving it to Ruth? She has a better public persona in Scotland for all that kind of stuff?....maybe.

Anonymous said...

"In the unlikely event that Nicola Sturgeon steps down, John Swinney will take her place as First Minister of Scotland; a man of impeccable character". Jeane Freeman said that...with a straight face...I think she must have been half-cut at the time. Vodka and Red-Bull at the Holyrood bar. Something like that.

Anonymous said...

Civic Nationalism?..... I understand that George Galloway has had to move his family out of their home after death threats were issued by a Nationalist fanatic. It was always going to happen. For me, it's another nail in the coffin of Holyrood. Who needs it and what does it do for us that wasn't done a hell of a lot more efficiently before Holyrood.

I'm no great fan of George Galloway and find that he tends to follow his own agenda much of the time. That said, he must be worth 20-30 of these silent Holyrood tools (of all parties) that sit in chairs all-day at Holyrood.

I'm sure Police Scotland will sort it out. They still serve members of the general public, dont they?

Anonymous said...

"The names of the conspirators and what exactly they did is coming out. There will be no stopping it, and it will utterly destroy what little credibility the SNP has left. Like the bunker in Berlin, the final push is coming."

Anonymous said...

Independence will give Sturgeon and Swinney control over our armed forces and folk who are a nuisance to then will simply disappear. Courts, lawyers, civil servants and all that complex stuff can simply be missed-out. Putin's being doing that for years now and so we know it works.

Anonymous said...

"Holyrood's presiding officer has been asked, by a member of the SNP, to investigate whether three SNP members of Holyrood's harassment committee broke the MSP code of conduct by rubbishing conclusions in the inquiry's report before it is published." - Kieran Andrews, The Times.

Anonymous said...

You have a state prosecutor and a state police service. Between them, they will not prosecute members of the government, but folk identified by the government will be prosecuted. That's the way it works.

Anonymous said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8NjRSUkkWE

This is Craig Murray, from yesterday. You'll know most of this or maybe all of it but, for me, it explained a lot of this episode fully.

Anonymous said...

So, the alphabet women were all within Nicola Sturgeon's close group of colleagues; folk she would expect to communicate with in a work and social sense every day.

John Somers was her Private Secretary, Peter Murrell was her husband. Add-in the various senior SNP admin and civil-service folk and you have a big team there - all very close to Sturgeon. As close as you could ever get.

They all knew about the Alex Salmond allegations at the end of November, but Sturgeon herself didn't know until early April the following year.

Do you believe that?

One thing I did find worrying about Craig Murray's videao was that the conduct of the trial and the standard of evidence presented by Scotgov and accepted at the trial was of a standard below which we should be accepting in Scotland. The illusive'actor' who gave evidence by video link for example; it all sounds very set-up to me. Not even an actor could go through with it in real life, but the alphabet women gave it a try.

Many months of stress have obviously taken their toll on him.

Anonymous said...

"Adam Tomkins on just now. Born in Berkshire, went to the University of East Anglia and then the London School of Economics. About a Scottish as an aboriginals arse! Fuck off and leave our country & Nicola alone!!" From Mr Brian Rhoney - a blood and soil patriot. Genuine, educated folk aren't required any more by the Junta. Brian Rhoney is one of the educated folk now.

Anonymous said...

I see The Sunday Post is reporting on the state of the two half-finished ferries rusting on the queyside in Fergusons of Port Glasgow. Tendered cost just over £90m. Projected cost £300m.

Some naval architects have taken a look at them and they reckon they may have to be scrapped. Just not up to quality standards. They were overseas naval architects mind-you. If a Scottish naval architect dared criticize them he would be found hanged from the queyside.

Interestingly, a wee country like Norway can produce their own ferries effortlessly and we have a few of them on the Gourock to Dunoon route. Why can't Scotland, with our shipbuilding heritage?

There's some questions regarding the possibility of corruption in the bidding process and the way so much money has been handed-over for so little. It wouldn't be like the SNP to be associated with industrial scale corruption now, would it?

Anonymous said...

"Support for independence has dropped by 12 points since Nicola Sturgeon appeared before Alex Salmond inquiry." Fabulous news.

Anonymous said...

820,000 vaccines on Saturday in England. 19,000 in Scotland which was revised-up later (somehow) to 43,000. Thank fuck we've not independent.

Anonymous said...

Nicoliar doesn't seem to realise her time as FM is over....looks like, she'll have to be dragged out kicking and screaming. Oh dear!

Anonymous said...

Excellent article.

Anyone who has studied the propaganda used by the Nazis from 1933 to 45 will see parallels. That is by no mean implying that the SNP are going to follow similar policies, but that many political parties and organisations follow similar models. Because if used carefully they are effective.

One of the key tools is to find a point of blame - it could be race, religion, sexuality, employment, politics etc. The SNP seem to have focused on race - if you are English - or even identify as British or UK - then in their eyes you are unpatriotic, and at worse a traitor.

No other party brought this division into Scotland. Sectarianism doesn't even come close.

The SNP's big problem is that it has evolved into a cult. This was started by "Alex Salmond for First Minister" and now refined by Nicola Sturgeon. Neither has any control, and this is proven by recent examples where the threat of gun violence has been aimed at political opponents, and even to their own MPs.

Anyone opposed to the SNP must now concentrate on the failures of the past 14 years. The amount of money wasted dwarves what has been spent of free tuition and prescriptions.