The SNP Scandal That Will Not Die; Is SNP MP Mhairi Black's dire SKY interview the clearest signal yet that the SNP is losing the propaganda war for disgraced SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, SNP MSP John Swinney can't despite repeated attempts make the public swallow 'the big lie', Black's performance that the Salmond complainants have been 'weaponised' was so weak, so vague, so dire, and so glib, that even the SKY interviewer was clearly unimpressed, too many people know, too many people have read the evidence, too many people want justice done, Sturgeon is a liability

Dear All 

THE SNP Government is no stranger to lying, no stranger to deception, and no stranger to acting dishonestly. A few years ago, the FT ran an ad based on a theme, 'know the whole picture, Know the full FT'. In a series of ads it would show people in situations which gave you a perception of one thing, when it was something entirely opposite. The ad which sticks out is a young black man face contorted running full tilt at a white woman who looked frightened. The ad pulls back to show the black man saving the woman from falling debris. So the perception she about was to be attacked and robbed was wrong, the whole picture showed the truth. In the Alex Salmond scandal, the truth has been attempted to be driven away from the Scottish public by the SNP at every opportunity. For example, on several occasions, the SNP Government obstructed the Salmond Inquiry, not once, or twice, but on 60 occasions. 

We have been drip fed false and misleading information to paint a picture of SNP honesty, which is a lie. When other documents are forced from them, they show they are liars who will stop at nothing to shield SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon. Why do they attempt to shield Nicola Sturgeon if she is innocent? SNP Government Ministers and elected politicians go on TV, and repeat lies sticking to a narrow script. They don't talk about evidence, they don't talk about the people involved in the cover up, but they use banal general terms such as there is no conspiracy. You can't ask them to prove anything they say, and to be clear they didn't carry out any investigation. 

I would think if you took the time, read the evidence, watched all the people who gave evidence, listened to all the interviews of SNP Government Ministers and managed to get your head round the whole picture. I think you would say Alex Salmond was the victim of a conspiracy to destroy him, his career, his reputation and send him to prison. I think conspiracy is the term best suited to what has happened here, because people just 'get it' when you say it to them. Of course Alex Salmond hasn't said conspiracy, he uses a different set of words to describe it. Whatever version or combination of words you use to describe what has happened, the phrase you will also get very quickly is 'all roads lead to Rome'. At this point, I want you to view a video, the video is of SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon giving evidence at the Alex Salmond Inquiry. She states, "I don't know all the people (women) in the criminal trial and those I do know, I don't know well'. That sounds pretty straight forward doesn't it, it's clear, it doesn't really leave room for doubt and gives the impression that the SNP have used through-out this farce that these were random women across a vast Scottish Government and SNP networks. Listen to this clip. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10VEo7YmDzY&t=13s  

Wings over Scotland has a post, the title is, 'The Biggest Lie Ever Told' which relates to this part of Sturgeon's testimony. He wrote in his article:  

"I know who they all are.

Craig Murray knows who they all are.

Every journalist who covered the trial knows who they all are.

(And we can reasonably assume their editors also know who they all are.)"  

I go back to the FT advert, taking Sturgeon at her word in that setting may seem fine, and believable to people, because why should she lie? But if pressed, on how "well" she knows the ones she does know, she can hid behind the Court Order not to identify Salmond's false accusers. Salmond's false accusers are protected by a Court Order which if a person tells the names of any of them potential could mean that they will be sent to jail. Already a guy has already been jailed for six months for contempt of court. Also, Sturgeon's 'get out of jail' free card hinges of what does she mean by her use of the term "well". In Craig Murray's articles, he makes it quite clear that the 'alphabet' women aren't random women spread over a vast Scottish Government and SNP Network, far from it. 

The 'alphabet women' are from a very close group of people around Nicola Sturgeon. 

Sturgeon's evidence of 'I don't know them well' is nonsense, it is worse than nonsense it insults the intelligence of every man and woman in Scotland. It also insults, the press, and those MSPs who sit on the Salmond Inquiry, because it falls into what is termed, 'the Big Lie'. The 'Big Lie' is a concept used in politics to as "a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the facts, especially when used as a propaganda device by a politician or official body". 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie  

The SNP and this include the Government of Scotland which they control are subjecting you to this in order to save SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon. As I write this, I wonder how many people if they knew the 'alphabet women' and Sturgeon's association with them would immediately be tempted to shout, 'you lying bastard' loudly? I wonder if asked the question, 'you have known some of the 'alphabet women' for nearly two decades in some cases, could you explain how you don't know these people well? After all, it wasn't like these people were the cleaners, the tea ladies, or the janitors. In some cases, I believe it could be argued that Nicola Sturgeon doesn't just know the 'alphabet women' well, she knows them very well. 

One of the useful idiots in the Alex Salmond scandal is disgraced SNP Education Minister John Swinney. Swinney was a disgrace prior to the scandal for his role in the sexualisation of children in Scottish schools. This video below is from the Scottish Family Party, and it shows how morally corrupt the SNP are as a party, Swinney is just a front man. The use of front men or front person or front person (oh how pc, I am) isn't new in business or in politics. SNP Education Minister John Swinney is what I term the 'enlightened heterosexual'. The man that recognises that young boys need a through sexual education in anal sex. Sadly the SNP indoctrination hadn't worked when SNP MSP Derek Mackay tried to what certain politicians called grooming a young 16 year old boy. Your kid may leave school unable to read and write, but by God, John Swinney will move heaven and earth, mountains even, so they have the skills to ram a hot throbber up someone's arse. They might not be able to get a proper job, but rent boy is a career path, who knows maybe their clients will be current and future SNP politicians. Here is a youtube video of SNP Education Minister John Swinney being confronted over his support for sexualisation of children.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujePAmm5uK4  

This reminds of a story, years ago, I blogged on one of Sturgeon's LGBT Southside clique who took a young homeless man, a known Glasgow beggar down a one way alley off Jamaica Street in Glasgow. I happened to be waiting on a bus home as I saw him stagger out of the pub opposite the shops. Prior to entering the alley, the SNP guy checked his wallet, it was dark in that alley, so can we rule out there was a discussion on the merits of Glasgow architecture. This was a guy who campaigned with Sturgeon and also disgraced Glasgow SNP Cllr Allison Hunter (I get to her further down), funny enough if you look at videos of the Glasgow counts of recent elections, you can see him there in the SNP pack in the hall.

Although the SNP child sex education is geared up to fit an LGBT agenda, the 'skill set' can be equally used by boys to shag girls. Who knows, maybe they have a booklet entitled, 'All Holes a Goal'. Oh, and don't forget the pioneering ground breaking lessons on dick sucking. The SNP setup a training school for activists named after Sturgeon's election agent Allison Hunter who died, she was a clown of an individual, and a nasty piece of work. TheSNP invented the nickname of 'Auntie Allison' which was clearly bizarre to me and others. The SNP ran with this nickname on social media, 'Auntie Allison', a sick joke if ever there was one. Her idiot daughter Mhairi Hunter wrote on the SNP website this: 

"My mum, Allison Hunter, or Auntie Allison as many SNP people knew her, played a major role in helping to train the party in the campaigning techniques which we now see as standard. Going out and identifying our support, getting our support out to vote on the day and staying in touch with our supporters – building those important relationships. As National Organiser, she was also vital in establishing the culture in the party which is very much about teamwork, about people working together to try and achieve our aims." 

During my time in the SNP, Allison Hunter rarely came out and worked with the activists in Govan. I spent years turning up to campaign sessions in Govan. She would occasionally turn up in Govan to do canvassing sessions. In an average year, Pollok SNP would do 10 months of activism, twice a week, so that is roughly 80 sessions give or take. You would be lucky to see her turn up for about 6. In elections, during what is termed the short campaign, roughly 42 days, on average 3 sessions a day, her attendance would be zero. Not once did she conduct any teaching sessions at Pollok SNP when I was there or do any teaching on those few days a year, she turned up at Govan for canvassing. Nicola Sturgeon said of Hunter: 

"Allison was a first-class councillor and her constituents will miss her dearly." 

Actually, her constituents didn't miss her, and if you where to ask people in Govan randomly who she was, most people wouldn't have a clue. Sturgeon on the other hand, the people do remember. They hated her guts, this is the people who went to Sturgeon for help and got none. Maybe one day the SNP will setup a sexual training school, and name it after disgraced SNP Minister Derek Mackay. 

If you have been paying attention, you will note that the SNP is pushing hard a couple of narratives. 

1/ There wasn't a conspiracy against Alex Salmond

2/ Nicola Sturgeon did well at the Salmond Inquiry. 

Deputy First Minister John Swinney has been pushing hard the narrative that documents have now “utterly disproved” the conspiracy theories around the Alex Salmond affair. What Swinney is doing is talking about certain documents which were produced which show SNP and legal thinking at a snapshot in time. You are then invited by default to assume that this snapshot applies to the debate regarding the conspiracy. It is disingenuous as to be laughable, especially when further evidence is produced. The reality is that Scottish Government "discounted" advice to concede its legal fight with Alex Salmond. They only gave up after a series of increasingly desperate warnings from lawyers. The lawyers for the government were getting used by the SNP. They had made claims in good faith, when documents had been withheld. There is a decent post on Wings over Scotland to read about this which is really blunt.

https://wingsoverscotland.com/plough-on-regardless/  

Please read the whole gist, and scan the documents, you need to understand, what I termed 'the big lie' is and how it relates to where we are now. This part from Wings basically sums up the problems that the external lawyers faced trying to do a competent job. It has a richness to it, so without further ado, here is Wings summary:  

"So just to recap on counsel’s advice to its client: 

31 OCTOBER (quote): “It makes little sense to continue to defend the indefensible” 

17 DECEMBER (translated): “Your case is now so bad that we would be entitled to walk away, and we cannot see any possible benefit to you carrying on that outweighs the disastrous repercussions of doing so, but if you really insist then we’ll reluctantly continue because it hasn’t yet quite reached the point where it would be a serious breach of professional conduct on our part to keep taking your money.” 

22 DECEMBER (translated): “Your case has finally moved from nearly-unstatable to actually unstatable. If we were to carry on representing you we would be tarred and feathered and chased out of town by an angry mob of other lawyers and judges. Concede now before you ruin our careers, you absolute tools.” 

28 DECEMBER (translated): “What f*cking part of f*cking ‘concede now or we quit’ didn’t you f*cking understand, you f*cking arseholes?”  

Yes, I think this can be described by saying that the SNP Government was trying to fuck everyone over at various points in time to save their own skins. John Swinney as front man to me is entirely unconvincing, so what do you do when you know people aren't buying the shit you're peddling? You get in additional 'sales people'. The new sales people are there to carry some of the load, and by default they are there to support 'the big lie'. Why did SNP Minister John Swinney need help? Well, remember he said that material showed ministers did not unreasonably prolong their legal fight with Alex Salmond, and they did not ignore advice from their outside lawyers. How do you balance out his words and his actions, when you read the post on Wings over Scotland, which contains documents? That is why I want you to read carefully the Wings post and the scanned documents, because you need to see the whole picture. 

The SNP is desperate to turn the spotlight away from Nicola Sturgeon, John Swinney is failing miserably to do this, so like in a football game, the SNP has discredit SNP MP Mhairi Black to say that the women who spoke out about about sexual assault allegations against Alex Salmond  have been “weaponised”. Before, I get to Ms. Black, women's champion, we should remember that Black isn't a women's champion at all. 

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18548227.mhairi-black-challenges-nicola-sturgeon-transphobia-snp/  

Mhairi Black is a joke as an MP, the people in Paisley and Renfrewshire South need to wake up to that fact too. Ms. Black is a lesbian who supports what is termed 'trans rights', so she and Sturgeon sit in the same woke community now. Previously Swinney refused to back Black over a Drag Queen incident at a primary school which made the papers. Black was also outed over her poor attendance record at the House of Commons, which she put down to a problem with the food coming out faster than it went in. So, when I see SNP MP Mhairi Black speaking to Sky News saying “conspiracy theories” and “agendas” are taking precedence over helping potential victims of sexual harassment. I immediately think what is her 'agenda'? I am struck by this part of her phrase, " helping potential victims of sexual harassment", isn't everyone a potential victim? So, why wasn't there a fair process Mhairi, why did it have to be rigged?  

Black told ‘Sophy Ridge on Sunday’: 

“The Scottish government did make a mistake in terms of how they actually implemented this policy and it is actually quite refreshing I think to see the First Minister in particular put her hands up and sincerely say we could do better and that’s what the point of this inquiry should be, to figure out how can we make sure this kind of mistake never happens again. Instead, what we’ve had is just this barrage of conspiracy theories, of attacks of our institutions, of clear political agendas taking precedence over what is a very serious issue.” 

The first thing to remember, is that the SNP Government didn't make a mistake, they didn't make an error, they were involved in an illegal process, and continued to do so after being told that their case wasn't 'statable', this is code for there is no defence. Nicola Sturgeon didn't as Black says put her hands up, Sturgeon's was forced to quit the case because the external lawyers were willing to walk away. What Sturgeon is doing now is trying to rewrite history so that she can appear to have a clean pair of hands. Sturgeon is trying to foster the blame onto others, when the actuality of blame rests entirely with her as First Minister. She was told the process was illegal, and then did nothing about it, she had her staff apparently attached or part of the group fighting against the judicial review. Why was a member of her staff involved in that? 

What Black is trying to do, is what John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon have been trying to do for some time, try and make you believe that there were female victims who suffered a miscarriage of justice by a jury, the jury that cleared Alex Salmond. What SNP MP Mhairi Black won't admit to is that the SNP Government is corrupt, the Crown Office is corrupt, and the SNP leadership is mired in allegations of dishonesty and corruption. The SNP is desperate to try and turn the press and public focus back on Alex Salmond.  

Watch the whole interview with Mhairi Black, you will not be impressed by any means. It is a dire performance of attacks on Alex Salmond via 'woe is the poor female victims' route, attacks on the Scottish Conservatives, and again, attacks on Boris Johnson. At one stage, Black says Boris Johnson misled the UK parliament as if that somehow should excuse what Nicola Sturgeon has done. It's the mindset of 'Boris is guilt, Nicola is guilty but because Boris isn't stepping down, Nicola is okay to continue'. The Salmond scandal is about a man being stitched up, then there was an attempt to put an innocent man in prison. Which SNP MP Mhairi Black appears to think is in the same league and ball park as Boris Johnson proroguing Parliament. 

Finally, to sum up, we have seen some incredible double acts in our time, Torvill and Dean, The Two Ronnies, and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers, but Swinney and Black are two people who won't have a successful partnership. Mhairi Black's defence so weak, so vague, so dire, the only things she didn't throw apparently was the kitchen sink. Swinney has the look of a guilty man who has been caught publicly doing something so obscene that even he is ashamed. Black is like David Beckham in football, the SNP only wheel her out for 'set pieces' for the media, this was a set piece in which she scored an own goal. The double act of John Swinney and Mhairi Black, SNP 'surf and turf' may seem like an odd couple, but remember they are just as odd as Nicola Sturgeon and the Truth. And as much as Sturgeon, the SNP and the SNP Government want to stop it, the truth is coming, the tenure of Nicola Sturgeon is doomed. Too many people know what has happened, too many people want justice to be done, too many people have seen the evidence, and those who were involved should be punished. There will come a time, when the debate will move onto criminal charges for those involved, not just lost of their jobs, and removed from Scottish public life permanently. There is a strong case for investigation, and that cannot happen soon enough.

Yours sincerely 

George Laird                                                                                                                                The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University