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
“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.
ReplyDeleteAlso, 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.
...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.
ReplyDelete"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.
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.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteIt 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.
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.
ReplyDelete“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.”
"The Scottish Labour leader has been presented with incontrovertible evidence yet has resorted to a vow of silence. “
ReplyDelete"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.
https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2021/03/18/jim-sillars-hits-out/
ReplyDeleteFrom 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 .
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.
ReplyDeleteIt 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteRemember 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.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
'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.
ReplyDeleteHow 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?
ReplyDeleteUnder 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteYou'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.
ReplyDelete"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.
ReplyDeleteCivic 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.
ReplyDeleteI'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?
"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."
ReplyDeleteIndependence 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.
ReplyDelete"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.
ReplyDeleteYou 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.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8NjRSUkkWE
ReplyDeleteThis 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteJohn 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.
"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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteSome 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?
"Support for independence has dropped by 12 points since Nicola Sturgeon appeared before Alex Salmond inquiry." Fabulous news.
ReplyDelete820,000 vaccines on Saturday in England. 19,000 in Scotland which was revised-up later (somehow) to 43,000. Thank fuck we've not independent.
ReplyDeleteNicoliar 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!
ReplyDeleteExcellent article.
ReplyDeleteAnyone 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.