IT has been intriguing to listen to some of the anti-indy/SNP/Scottish Government drivel emanating from various Tory “suspects” during the period of their party conference in Manchester. The angry little Scottish Tory leader, Douglas Ross, astounds AGAIN with a comment that he’d be happy to “bypass”
the Scottish Parliament. Caught with his pants down” at a Tory fringe event, wee angry Doogie more or less professing that he’d eradicate the Scot Parliament if he had the chance!
Then he audaciously implied at another meeting that Nicola Sturgeon was out of touch with the working classes in Scotland? Not! And especially compared with his dubious political credentials!!!
READ MORE: Douglas Ross’s 'bypass Holyrood' statement was affront to our parliament
Why is this non-entity of an unelected list MSP being allowed to even grace our Holyrood parliament when it has become absolutely clear that he has no respect for the institution or the Scottish Government MSPs within it?
Let’s now move on to the ignorant comment of a senior Tory MP named Oliver Dowden, opining that Scotland is part of England??? This is an “old chestnut”, an absurd wind-up that is still being very occasionally said by political opponents of Scotland who have nothing else to say, and I’m sure most folk in England who listened to this idiot realised it is utter nonsense – “old hat” stuff!!
As for Michael Gove’s speech reiterating his Tory commitment that “the Tories will never allow the break-up of the Union” while previously professing that “we want everyone to have the chance to choose their own future” – SHEER HYPOCRISY IN FULL VIEW.
READ MORE: Michael Gove says Tories will 'never' allow UK break up as he misnames SNP
One wonders if these hypocrites actually realise what comes out of their mouths during this period where lots of populist charlatans are all gathered together in Manchester and “playing the game” of politics to impress their admirers in the galleries.
Unimpressive stuff, and one just hopes that these fascists don’t do something really stupid against the Scottish Government/SNP or the Scottish independence movement
in general as it becomes apparent that they also intend to erode our human rights as citizens of this country by diluting the contents of the Human Rights Act to suit their own political ends.
Bernie Japs
Edinburgh
WHO will confront Gove with his “we want everyone to have the chance to choose their own future”? Direct quote from his conference speech – everyone that is except the Scots: “Tories will never allow Scotland to break up the UK” in the same speech.
Winifred McCartney
Paisley
I REALLY shouldn’t read The National over breakfast because one day I’m going to choke with outrage. On Monday you quoted Oliver Dowden, Tory co-chair, saying Scotland’s health and education were “falling massively behind the rest of England.” England, not Britain. Apparently we’re now just a part of that other nation with whom we’re supposedly in an equal relationship. Slip of the tongue, or symptomatic of a colonial mentality?
READ MORE: Oliver Dowden claims Scotland is part of England in Nicola Sturgeon rant
On the same page Douglas Ross is quoted declaring: “I’ve got no problem with bypassing the Scottish Government if that money (the Shared Prosperity Fund) is going directly into local communities.” Let’s just unpack that and translate it into political reality. The Conservatives stood at the Holyrood election with a platform of policies which were roundly rejected by the electorate, so the winners – the SNP and the Greens – got to form the government. But in sinisterly Trumpian fashion, Ross declares that although he lost, he still gets to make the governmental decisions. He just tells his Tory pals in Westminster, put in office by an English electorate, what he wants, and they withhold our share of the fund and spend it themselves on the policies which the Scottish voters rejected. Definitely a colonial mindset.
David White
Galashiels
IT says a lot about the Conservative Party that after 18 years of Thatcher and Major and 11 years of Cameron, May and Johnson, they still have to talk about wanting “everyone to choose their own future”. Here’s our answer: we won’t need 29 years of thinking about it. We’ll be happy to choose our own future. Not only do we believe in Scotland, we believe we do have the right to choose, that Gove and Johnson have no authority to stop us. Bring on 2023!
Catriona Grigg
Embo
OLIVER Dowden’s comment about Nicola being a “giant among pygmies” is well wide of the mark given the Tories prove themselves daily to be ill-informed, idiotic, incompetent, corrupt, serial liars, out of touch with reality and thoroughly clueless (Oct 5).
On a visit up from England to see relatives last week, I asked them if they would swap their Nicola for our Boris. The answer was extremely clear NO! NOT EVER! Dowden shows why the Tories are a lost cause in Scotland.
Keith Oram
via thenational.scot
KIRSTY Blackman MP has shared (ie approved) a tweet calling for the expulsion of Joanna Cherry from the SNP, apparently because Joanna holds the opinion that men who self-identify as women should not be allowed into women’s safe spaces – an opinion probably held by about 99% of the population of Scotland.
READ MORE: SNP MP shares post calling for Joanna Cherry to be expelled from party
That Kirsty Blackman should approve of this extremist demand says much about her contempt for other people’s opinions and perhaps her jealousy of Joanna’s success in taking on and defeating the Westminster government in court, which the SNP has only grudgingly acknowledged. Joanna Cherry (my MP) is one of the brightest and best in the SNP and should be front and centre of the independence campaign, not denigrated by lesser talents.
James Duncan
Edinburgh
It was just announced that only 127 foreign HGV drivers have applied for visas. Boris’s spin on this was , there’s a global shortage of HGV drivers! Maybe ,just maybe , Boris ,it’s because the length of the visa is very short. Do you not think? Robin MacLean Fort Augustus
THIS infighting does no good. Every person has a right to state their opinions. Calling for sackings is not the way – listening and robust discussion, then agreeing to disagree if no solution is found, seems better than a civil war.
Margaret Paisley
via thenational.scot
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