Dear All
Here is a ditto that I placed in the comments section of the Herald, sadly you will not find it there due to it being deleted. Today the UK Border Force encountered a mob as they were trying to do their jobs, making our communities safe and secure. Scotland is now a failed State, its Gulag leader Nicola Sturgeon has used the removal of failed asylum seekers to attack the UK government, not unexpected, but it shows the road that Scotland is travelling down, abandonment of rule of law.
Anyway here is my deleted comments from the Herald website, I would imagine some trendy lefty after having read it, decided that the George Laird was unacceptable, but decided to promote the false concern of fake SNP politicians.
"Part and parcel of being a politician is to respect the rule of law, clearly we have virtue signaling going on here with some politicians ,over the Home Office Staff doing their job.
This is done so that the politicians can look good in the press, but by doing so, did they carry out a risk assessment on what their actions could potential cause in terms of harm to the officers doing their job?
I personally doubt, it is far easier to just shout your mouth off and condemn, but what would have happened if the Pollokshields mob had turned ugly? Where would those politicians be then, remarkably unavailable for comment? Maybe a glib, oh this is terrible and they condemn all violence of any sort type of press release?
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, if Scotland was independent would have an immigration system such as being currently used at present. Mind you, that being said, the system that the Nats use might and could in theory be different, it could be based on patronage, and big brown envelopes.
Or maybe we could have a system where you buy your citizenship like a packet of cornflakes. Who knows Scotland could end up a 'world leader' in being the highway into England for those want to bypass the checks and balances of the UK system. Maybe we could setup a revolving door at any future border, which of course would eventually lead to a hard border.
Sturgeon's judgment here undermines the rule of law, and respect for such law. Clearly, we have low calibre politicians in Scotland for the most part, but this little incident just shows why last week's election was an utter farce. Holyrood is a second rate parliament for mostly third rate politicians, some of whom can't see to budget!
I supposed I could jump on the bandwagon, and be all super pc!
Let's face it, it is the easy route when you are a member of political party. Just look at the sewerage pouring out a party leader's mouth and blindly follow the diktat. I find it hugely funny that some people who I regard as horrible people can get away with hoodwinking the gullible with their fake concern. Where was the concern for the homeless during the last 14 years? I will save anyone time who reads my comments and say there wasn't any, you see middle class politicians have no interest whatsoever in helping the poor and vulnerable. I think it would be helpful if we all used the term 'reverse racism' to explain away the last 14 years of SNP misrule as regard helping the working class.
I think the nonsense of today also shows that if politicians cannot respect the law, and play to the mob, then dawn raids should be the standard practice adopted.
Finally, isn't it interesting that Sturgeon can find the time to condemn the Home Office Enforcement Agency which is run by Westminster? One might almost think, it is part of her grievance agenda to attempt to wrestle immigration controls from the UK."
This country is fucked, all roads, mob rule, government incompetence, and grievanced used as tool of the governing party. Today's virtue signaling by party leaders was a disgrace, because the upshot is that they are by default saying that lawful authority rests with the mob. Later on this month, I may be picked to serve on a jury, so should I follow the 'fuck you' approach of the mob or should I follow the rule of law?
Yours sincerely
George Laird The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
SNP celebrity human-rights lawyer Amar Anwar made an appearance as did the dopy SNP MP for the area, Alison Thewliss.
ReplyDeleteYes, the Holyrood fandango and cabaret act starts-up the way it left-off. This is the very meaning of 'maufactured grievance'.
You'll find deportations like this go-on in every country in the world. In some countries, they are a hell of a lot tougher than we are here.
In the meantime, Plod Alba's 'Swinney' task force go about the full-time work of harassing the Alex Salmonds, Craig Murrays, Mark Hirsts etc of this crappy, biggotted wee country of arseholes.
We should have elected a balanced Holyrood assembly. Packing the joint full of the SNP is crazy and will end-up getting the place shut-down.
ReplyDeleteWe need folk that will get down to work and get things sorted-out. What we see here is just cheap jesture politics which is worthless.
A fair number of Labour, Conservative, Alba and even George Galloway would have reinvigorated Holyrood.
Instead, we have 5-years of this shite to look forward to. No votes of no-confidence. No-one's at risk. They can all foul-up and no-one really cares.
Stuart Campbell is closing down his site until November and he will re-assess it then. I like that guy, but he is pounding his head against a brick of indifferent, thick folk and he has had enough.
I'll tell you an interesting story about deportations: I worked in Africa several years ago. Our company put us all up in a block of modern appartments above some shops in the centre of town. There were 5No Scotsmen ans one local African guy who had an appartment at the end of the block.
ReplyDeleteHe used to play his music too loudly and one night one of the Scotsmen kicked his door down and threw his CD player out the window smashing it on the street below.
The Scotsman just went back to his bed and forgot all about it. An hour later the local police kicked his door down and carted him off to jail. The Scotsman only had an old tracksuit on but they told him to take his passport with him.
He was in jail for three days and then was taken to the main airport and deported to Amsterdam. He was never allowed back.
No Africans lay down on the road in front of the police or they would have been deported too.
When you are in a foreign country....do as you are told.
Congratulations George....I notice your excellent website continues to follow the balding, cretinous gangster of a Deputy First Minister around 24-hours a day. When threatening tools like him govern over us, it is perhaps time to decamp to a more democratic country somewhere else far away from this depressing, mouldering shit-hole.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of a story this....you may remember the Morandi Bridge which collapsed in a thunder storm in Genoa, Italy. It happened 3 or 4 years ago now.
ReplyDeleteBefore the collapsed, politicians were telling the public: 'don't you worry about this bridge, this bridge is safe for another 50-years'
A fortnight later it collapsed leaving about 20 dead.
The same politicians couldn't be found anywhere. So, the TV crews went to Genoa and spoke to the professor of engineering at the local university.
He said: 'I've been telling them for years that this bridge was going to collapse. I've told all my students that for the past 15-years'.
Italian politicians have always been notoriosly crooked of course, but it does make you wonder if our Holyrood politicians are any better. I would say they are slightly worse as things stand at the moment
Mob rule now decides who gets detained in Scotland.
ReplyDeleteSo any criminal who fancies a get out of jail free card should commit their crimes during Easter or Christmas, state its a religious festival and get mob of friends to protest and the police will accept this and free you ??? Welcome to the new civic and joyous Scotland !
I noticed photo shot of a tweet by Paul Sweeney condemning the Home Office and urging people to get down there and join the protesters. I am blocked by PS but can't check as someone said tweet had been removed.
ReplyDeleteI'm furious that Paul Sweeney is an MSP. I believe he is a liar and fabricated these stories about disgracefully drunk Ross Thompson. 2 investigations found him to be lying. The second by an Independent panel of 8 (mostly from legal backgrounds) said the first investigation had been sufficient but their investigation was very through. 19 witnesses including 2 of his close colleagues, CCTV, but in their 22 page document it stressed the many times his account of what happened changed, inconsistent and grew legs. Paul Sweeney who is always seeking media attention just before the 2019 GE went to umpteen newspapers with his story and rambled on and on. Perhaps this gave the Panel more conflicting evidence on his accusations by differing from his various statements.
I knew nothing of Paul Sweeney apart from being told by a member of Scotland in Union that he was a very nice young man. The petitions debate on another Scottish Referendum was taking place on 13 November 2017 in Westminster Hall and I urged local people to watch it on parliament TV. What we saw was a vicious Tory hater. He should have been putting his case for why there shouldn't be another Indy Ref but he used his time to explain that it was because of the Tories, his constituents voted for Yes.(siding with SNP) In 2014 Conservatives were in coalition with Lib Dems and out of the previous 20 years Labour had been in Power for 13 years. Glasgow City Council had been Labour for decades. Ross Thompson intervened and Sweeney couldn't contain his anger. This may have their first encounter.
As you probably know Ross Thompson's lawyer wrote a letter to Anas Sarwar with copy to Labour UK asking him to deselect Paul Sweeney as a candidate. Ross Thompson lawyer requested a public apology from Sweeney otherwise he would take legal action. Obviously nothing has happened as yet. It reminds me of Anas Sarwar accusing Councillor Davie McLachan of a racial slur months after the supposed event but just before his "tackling Islamophobia" group. Anyone who knew Davie McLachan well didn't believe it and said he was not racist and had invited Anas Sarwar to functions. Davie saying he was going to vote for Richard Leonard couldn't have gone down well. In this case we will never know the truth as there were no witnesses just written evidence from them both. David McLachan had been suspended for about 1 year and eventually Labour committee decided they believed him and not Anas Sarwar.
Paul Sweeney is not particularly liked in NW Glasgow. They think be is a brag who after leaving University spent only 5 years in a shipbuilding office but calls himself an engineer and a shipbuilder. I have had no contact with Paul Sweeney. A couple of Emails which he didn't answer but often heard people saying he is more interested in helping immigrants for headlines than local residents.
Hi George,
ReplyDeleteWhat I also find amazing is the fact politicians and The Mob all assume the U.K. immigration department were wrong in removing these men, presumably to start the process of deporting them, without any knowledge of the reasons behind the Immigration Dept actions.
Would Sturgeon and others support these individuals if they were being deported because they had abused and raped women?
How would that fit in with The Dear Leader’s pro women agenda?
These men need to detained again soon at the first opportunity. We cannot have the rule of law being subverted by anti English SNP politicians and an ill informed mob.
I'm genuinely worried that the next time I'm in Scotland seeing relatives, or walking around my old neighborhood in Edinburgh, that I'll have to negotiate check points, peace walls and dodge opposed mobs kicking the cr*p out of each other. I do a lot of work with the aftermath of the former Yugoslavia and while I don't think Scotland will follow that exact model, I do see a lot of similarities - press being manipulated, suppression of opinions not compliant with the ruling party, xenophobia being encouraged and now this civil disobedience for political gain. I think Sturgeon's SNP is playing with fire.
ReplyDeleteThey were Indian and weren't Muslim. Another catalogue of lies from our comically incompetent Justice Minister. Time that idiot was bagged. No wonder justice in Scotland is a joke nowadays.
ReplyDeleteHi George. Would Westminster be that stupid to hand immigration control over to Bollywood?
ReplyDeleteRangers supporters are currently marching towards George Square. Strikes me that there is not a lot our MSP's can do to criticize them. I don't condone it by the way, but I understand it. If our MSP's applude crowd behaviour a couple of miles away in Pollokshields and think that is a fine upstanding thing for a Glaswegian to do nowadays, then football supporters are just following that example. Let's hope the Rangers supporters are somewhat better behaved and don't lie under Police vans. That's not a good idea.
ReplyDeleteSturgeon was informed in advance of the Home Office visit. Presumably by the SNP's daft (even by SNP standards) MP for the area, Alison Thewliss. Thewliss needs to be informed in advance of Home Office action against any of her constituents and she was there too, alongside the mob.
ReplyDeleteThewliss will be aware that the full process of the law has been followed. Judgements handed-down and appeals lodged and heard and all the rest of it. This was therefore not some cack-handed, ill-conceived operation as is being claimed by the SNP.
The correct process of law has been followed and the door is now shut. We either follow and respect that process or we don't.
Every asylum seeker in the UK will be heading for Glasgow Central on the train. 'Get off at Glasgow Central and catch the next train to Pollokshields on the Cathcart Circle line.' It's dead easy. We are being sucked into the vortex with all of this SNP shite. Complete with Palastinian flags. Asylum seekers cannot loose in Pollokshields now.
ReplyDeleteI imagine Priti Patel is ripping into Sturgeon and Yousaf and will not stop until she receives an appology from both. Things will change in Scotland and this lawlessness will not be allowed to go-on. The Secretary of State for Scotland is in charge of the devolution settlement and he can intervene with Special Measures if he thinks it is necessary.
Saturday's chaos is partly due to what happened on Thursday. Social media was swamped with people effectively saying "fuck it". The damage at George Square cannot be excused, but neither can the support given by MSPs to the gatherings on Thursday and Sunday.
ReplyDeleteOne MSP in particular told people to go to the gathering on Thursday. If that is not breaking some law then I'm a fruitcake, to put it politely. Further to Thursday, there was all sorts of rumour bouncing about, none of which I will repeat. I prefer facts not fiction or innuendo. I just hope one of them is true however.
Level 3 is no doubt going to be extended. If Covid infections ramp up as expected, then MSPs who encouraged people to attend any of the gatherings on Thursday, Saturday or Sunday need to be held accountable.
Scotland is descending into chaos. Lawyers are refusing to attend court Monday due to legal aid issues. No word if the taxi drivers have got their money yet. Vaccinations appear to have gone to hell in a basket again. Still no news on who will be Health Minister.
Excuse my language, but Scotland is fucked. I've never seen the country so divided.
This was on WoS on Saturday, George. Was up for a couple of hours and then Stuart Campbell was told to take it down.
ReplyDelete"Regarding the school that's sinking. It's being investigated right now; the suffocating grip of the Deputy First Minister and the City Council has finally been loosened and a proper investigation is taking place. I'm posting this so that people can read through it and make their own minds up. It was suggested I should put together a timeline; so here goes:
1. August 2014: the Project Manager said before construction had started; 'you've made a mistake here; if you keep going that school will sink'. They sacked him and carried-on.
2. September 2014: The Project Manager told the City Council and their lawyers: 'This building will never work'.
3. November 2015: the school started to sink.
4. August 2016: 'Scotland on Sunday' questioned if the school was safe.
5. August 2016: Meeting with Scottish Building Standards to explain the design fault.
6. September 2016: The Scottish Government check the design and decide it is safe.
7. May 2017: leadership of the City Council, who built the school, passes from SNP to a Labour/Conservative alliance.
8. Early 2017: meeting of Holyrood MSP's at the Education and Skills Committee where they are told by Hub and Scottish Building Standards that the school is safe.
9. November 2017: 40No experts from the American Society of Civil Engineers question whether the school is safe.
10. May 2018: a series of meetings were convened jointly by Hub and the City Council with 16No Scottish experts along with construction lawyers from Edinburgh and Newcastle. They conclude that the Scottish Government are liable for the cost of rectifying the school.
11. July 2018: letter from the Deputy First Minister saying 'contact Hub regarding the safety of this school'.
12. November 2018: letter from Hub saying that 'they would not communicate regarding the safety of this school'.
13. January 2019: letter from the MSP from Dumbarton saying that the Scottish Government and the City Council are satisfied that the school is safe.
14. May 2019: meeting with Scotland's Head of Building Standards to explain the design fault.
15. February 2020: Secretary of State for Scotland is informed.
16. April 2021: Institution of Civil Engineers are informed.
....The wrong decisions were made, weren't they? What happened to those that made the decisions because this will cost millions to fix? They were council employees, weren't they? They were promoted by the Deputy First Minister and they now work for him. What happened to the whistle-blower? He is long-term unemployed.
ReplyDelete20-years ago this would not have happened in Scotland; things would have been properly checked straight away. Now we have cover-up, after cover-up, after cover-up and it is because everyone is answerable to those at Holyrood.
Sadly, it is London based professional institutions that are now sorting this out for us.
Why can we not do that? Well, Scotgov employs many folk, many of them lawyers - all highly paid. Nicola Sturgeon says that 'we are lucky to have them.' The problem is they get paid to do as they are told and so some things, which are 'politically sensitive', just never get done.
What is Holyrood doing while this is going-on? At their behest the BBC, STV, an MP and a human-rights lawyer all descended on a street in Pollokshields because two young guys were being removed by the Immigation Service, presumably because they were illegal immigrants and illegal immigration is a crime. A hundred or so folk surrounded the police van and many of our MSP's took to Twitter to wind-up the public with claims that the Immigration Service's actions were 'un-Scottish'. They were legal, but they were somehow un-Scottish. There's a problem with that though, isn't there?.... 450No, mainly Scottish school kids and teachers, who have not committed any crime, use this school every day. Should we not be making sure this is sorted-out first before picking fights with the Immigration Service who have a hard enough job to do as it is?
Finally, it is thanks to this website that this case is now close to being solved. Without WoS and assistance from a Labour Party guy this would never have been done. There's just too many vested interests within the SNP, Labour and Conservative Parties in Scotland. I know it's been said before but this site is more representative of decent Scots than all of them.
The next White Paper on independence may be a joint effort by the UK and Scottish Governments. That should get us to the truth regarding currency, borrowing, central banks, pensions, debts, fiscal position, deficit, defence, military bases etc. All the stuff the SNP don't want you to know about.
ReplyDeleteThe offer should be getting made soon by Boris. We will watch with interest whether it is accepted, or not.