I CANNOT believe the brass neck of D Ross. He tweets that Jason Leitch had to go because of his bedtime ritual of deleting WhatsApps.
Nothing about Sunak’s lack of WhatsApps, or Johnson’s. The Tory mantra seems to be “if we do it, it is OK – anybody else bad, very bad. If we are racist it’s a misunderstanding, if we are misogynists we don’t really mean it about all black women.”
Jackie Baillie is another hypocrite – remember the air space she got to criticise the SNP about WhatsApps, and even Angela Rayner made derogatory comments regarding WhatsApps in Scotland. The same thing happens in Wales, and what do we have? SILENCE, and of course the BBC is also silent.
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D Ross is of course trying to take the heat off the racist Tory donor – you have to get a headline to try and neuter the real headlines, and the BBC cooperates fully.
For anyone who does not realise the BBC are not on the side of Scotland and will do everything their Union masters tell them, compare the news in Scotland to the news anywhere else in this country. Most of the latter is not politicised and politicians are not being doorstepped and aggressively questioned. You could also compare any Labour or Tory politician’s interview with an SNP person. The difference is stark: the aggression directed at the SNP politicians is a disgrace, with presenters unable to hide their bias.
Winifred McCartney
Paisley
THE Labour Party is getting so like the Conservative Party, the proverbial “fag paper” is still too big to slip between them.
Last month at the party conference there was an event organised by Scottish Labour at the Crown Plaza in Glasgow. The press was excluded from the “Business Forum” and an attendee list was not forthcoming despite requests.
Further investigations using Holyrood information has revealed some of the attendees: Centrica, Serco, RWE, Airbnb, Sirius Insight and Fujitsu are some.
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It must be noted that this “Business Forum” was adjacent to but not part of the conference, however literature provided indicated that some of the “big hitters” taking part were Anas Sarwar, Dame Jackie Baillie and shadow business secretary Jonathon Reynolds. Plenty of opportunities to meet others including prospective candidates and political advisors.
It was a business breakfast with roundtable sessions and an evening reception, all for a ticket price of £550.
Is this the Labour Party getting into bed with businesses that could, may, will get preferential treatment?
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Would this be another PPE VIP Lane being cooked up?
Would this be the attendees ingratiating themselves with Scottish Labour leaders?
No? What’s the point then, wouldn’t their product or service not sell itself? Cronyism is still rife?
The similarity with the Conservative Party is remarkable; it looks like the Labour Party is a Conservative Party clone.
Alistair Ballantyne
Angus
IN this day and age why do we still operate with England under the Treaty of Union, which was signed in 1707? It was signed in less-than-salubrious circumstances, not in our parliament, but in a back room of Moray House. The signatories were fearful for their lives from Scottish “mobs” in the Edinburgh streets, as well they might have been. The signatories were a bunch of unelected nobles who were bought by English gold, to replace their losses in the Darien Scheme.
No public election had taken place, no agreement by the electorate, and apparently acceptance of that “Treaty” allows England, with its infamous “unwritten constitution”, to run rings around modern-day Scotland, devolution or not.
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Perhaps it’s time to implement Ian Bruce’s Long Letter of March 12 and “attract the attention of the world’s media” by doing something noteworthy.
Before doing this, the SNP would have to publicise and accept the aims of such as Believe in Scotland and spread the message that Scotland is more than capable of supporting itself to the population at large! They would also have to point out that Scotland is in danger of losing control over its massive renewable energy and water resources (as it did over its oil and gas resources) with no benefits accruing to the population of Scotland at large.
To that end they would need to declare that the next election is a vote for independence, and on that basis they could renegotiate the Treaty (depending on the result) and bring it up to a modern standard. Such is unlikely, as many in the present SNP are a walking example of the “Scottish cringe” and need to join with or set up an alliance of all Yessers.
After the Brexit vote in Scotland, the Speaker/Labour alliance over the “minor” party motion, the response by Westminster to the proposed safe drug consumption rooms in Scotland etc, the result was that we had lost any independence we might (mistakenly) have thought we had. So the next step should be a step forward.
One need only look at the front page of The National to see the amount raised (£75,000 and climbing) from the people of Scotland in aid of Medical Aid for Palestinians to see how much we care about the world around us, whereas Westminster (in modern-day parlance) doesn’t give “a monkey’s”!
Paul Gillon
Leven
IN Sunday’s National Steph Brawn deplored the unwelcome presence of anti-abortion protesters outside hospital gates (Abortion staff fear going to work over protesters, Mar 10). In a spirit of cooperation hospital staff should participate in the vigils, complementing each ceremony with a symbolic baptism by sprinkling the faithful with a hose.
Now, let us spray...
James Stevenson
Auchterarder
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