The Insignificant Small Man of SNP Politics: Full of Bluster, Full of Hate, SNP Westminster leader, Ian Blackford screams ‘We’ll see you in court’ at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's over the SNP Government two incompetent Holyrood Bills, amusingly Blackford demands withdrawal of the ‘morally repugnant’ legal challenge to the UK Supreme Court, the UK Government response is, 'We'll see you there too', SNP Westminster leader will need grab a baby box, he is going to have need a disposable nappy when the verdict comes in against Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP Failed State Government

Dear All 

In order to stay in power, Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP are doing two things, one, they need to bribe the voters using UK taxpayers' cash, and secondly, they need to lie, lie, lie, and use their grievance mode. The latest made up, self generated grievance depending on what day and time it is, appears to be the meaningless allegation of Ian Blackford accusing Boris Johnson's government of “robbing children of their rights in Scotland”. No child in Scotland has been robbed of their rights by the UK Government. What is actually going on is the SNP are trying to legislate further than they are legally allowed to do so. The UK Government has concerns that the legislation could place obligations on them, and is out with the competence of Holyrood’s devolved powers. 

In a nutshell, Holyrood cannot legislate to tell Westminster what to do. The fact the UK Government is raising this, done through government channels, and now it seems legally, should have flagged up to the SNP, this is a fight they cannot win. This minor little episode, and that is what it is, is useful, useful in that it shows that the SNP is willing to use the Scottish Government as a campaigning tool. The Scottish Civil Service is used as de facto SNP employees, seconded to party campaigning. The Civil Service in Scotland is compromised because the UK didn't step in when the service was being hijacked. 

If you have ever watched the SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford in the House of Commons, you will have seen him on countless occasions making an utter fool of himself. If the UK Government does go to Court, then this will be another incident where Blackford ends up looking stupid. Insofar as my understanding the Conservatives at Westminster are said to be delighted to have such 'easy meat' in the Chamber, and I suspect they laugh just as much at Blackford in the Chamber as well as out of it. Blackford is a buffoon, a nasty little man who won his seat when the SNP bullied Charles Kennedy to death. Charles Kennedy, the former Lib Dem leader was a well respected politician in the House of Commons, liked by all parties. 

Blackford likes to get on his 'high horse' and posture, so it isn't surprising that he has condemned Boris Johnson for what Blackford enthusiastically describes as Boris Johnson's ‘morally repugnant’ legal challenge against the Scottish Government. In an utterly forgettable speech (if you can call it that) Blackford called on the Prime Minister to withdraw the challenges. This all started when MSPs unanimously approved bills relating to children’s rights and local government last month. The SNP are desperate to try and unite all the Holyrood parties behind any issue with them fronting themselves as 'leaders'. Whether Holyrood Bills are passed by one or passed unanimously is irrelevant, what is important is that those Bills are competent and stay within the devolved settlement. The SNP Government and Parliament needs closed down, in fact there is an argument that these corrupted institutions are merely bases, twin HQ's for ethnic hatred of the English, that would be the 'bad' English who don't support the SNP or independence. 

Scotland's modern day Reichstag! 

So, what is going to happen when the two disputed SNP Bills are referred to the UK Supreme Court for judgment? The first thing which the SNP will not like, is that they cannot rig the court, secondly they cannot use lies, deception and spin. This case would be fought entirely on legal and technical grounds. You can see why Blackford despite his overt bluster is demanding that the UK Government legal challenge is removed, he knows deep down that the SNP Government is going to lose. The case before the UK Supreme Court won't be abandoned, it's too late for that, the wheels have been set in motion. In what must be the weakest justification ever, Blackford said: 

“We have an SNP Scottish government delivering the baby box, doubling the Scottish child payment and providing free school meals to every primary school child. At the same time this Tory government is robbing children of their rights in Scotland, quite simply, Mr Speaker. The SNP Scottish Government has, and will continue to work to ensure Scotland is the best place for a child to grow up. This legal challenge threatens that. It is wrong and it is morally repugnant Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister committed to withdrawing his legal challenge today? If not, we'll see you in court.” 

So, where to start with Blackford's rant, I guess, the baby box, this idea that getting a box with nappies, and few other bits and pieces was cringe politics, for a full list of what you get, I found a link. Do you know anyone who puts a child to sleep in a box instead of the safety of a crib? Would you leave a baby in a box on a floor? Not only does cold air travels across a floor, it is the place where dirt and dust falls, how smart is that? Of course you wouldn't, neither would you place a baby box on a chest of drawers or a seat where there is a possibility of the baby box being unstable or the baby falling out of it and dropping at height. The baby box is a stupid idea in the extreme, made to make Nicola Sturgeon look good in her self-confessed role as 'Chief Mammy'. The idea of the baby box as an idea shows her to be a 'bad mammy', in fact you could argue she has no understanding of practicalities of motherhood at all, or risk assessment. 

The Scottish Child Payment is a new benefit, which is unique to Scotland, will give qualifying parents and carers £40 every four weeks for each child under six, note the words, "qualifying parents and carers". The 'here's a tenner' scheme is just a cheap gimmick with a short life span, do poor children after 6 years old suddenly don't need help? Although free school meals to every primary school child sounds very egalitarian, this means rich kids get to eat for free, which ultimately means that there are fewer resources for poorer kids. It is nothing to do with being egalitarian more to do with buying votes by the SNP. The SNP cannot generate loyalty, so they use UK taxpayer cash to stay in power by hoarding it till election time. 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson fired back a salvo when he said that the best thing the SNP could do for children is to “improve their shameful record on education and tackle the issues that matter to the people of Scotland”. Scotland's poorer children have been failed education and socially, just  as they are at the bottom starting off at primary school, this continues right up the educational ladder, through secondary school, at College and at University. They leave education to find out due to their social status, they are starting, yet again, at the bottom of another ladder, this time the employment ladder. Scotland under the SNP has produced a generations of failed kids educationally. 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson added other issues that the SNP Government could take up would be:

“To tackle the tax regime that they put in place, to do better on fighting crime and drug addiction in Scotland. They should be looking at the issues that really matter, in my view, to the people of Scotland, and instead they're going into the elections next month yet again on a campaign to break up this country. That's all they can think of, break up this country, call for a referendum, break up this country, destroy our country, and call a referendum in a way that I think is completely irresponsible at a very difficult time, where we want to bounce back stronger together.” 

Having booked a place at the UK Supreme Court, it seems the SNP now have a reluctance to go there, because their track record there is appallingly bad. I cannot think of an issue which they have ever won, because if they had, the SNP would never have let anyone ever forget it about, stories would be told, and retold of this nationally and in the press for all time. The most notably case for me that the SNP lost was 'the Cadder Case', this involved the reinstatement of human rights denial by the Crown Office. The Crown Office which is now seen as corrupt and compromised under Nicola Sturgeon was stripping accused persons of human rights and replacing them with their set of rules as 'protection'. In fact, on Newsnight, an SNP supporting stooge, Paul McBride was sent in to defend it, which I found remarkable how anyone could argue that 'black was white'. That case was clearly a loser but the SNP fought it anyway when forced to the UK Supreme Court, even a first year law student could have won it against the SNP Government. Human Rights cannot be removed unless a criteria such as national security trumps it. I blogged on the Cadder case way back on the 27th October 2010, and how wrong the SNP were for doing what they did. 

http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/2010/10/peoples-champion-peter-cadder-no-law.html 

We don't give people human rights because we like them, we give them human rights because that is what they are legally entitled too. I would suspect that prior to going to the UK Supreme Court that the UK Government's lawyers have nailed down their legal arguments like someone nailing down a squeaky floorboard. The UK Government has joined a fight the SNP has already started, and yet again, the SNP will lose. 

In what must be flung back in Blackford's face post verdict, he had earlier said at Prime Minister's Questions: 

“We'll see you in court.” 

I can think of no one better to get under the skin of the SNP than Jacob Rees Mogg, he needs to mention to Blackford: 

“Did you enjoy your day out at Court, did you attend, if not, please let me remind you of the UK Supreme Court verdict, you lost.”

Yours sincerely 

George Laird                                                                                                                                The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University