Sunday, 16 October 2016

ALEX SALMOND CONDEMNS THERESA MAY'S INTOLERANT, BACKWARD LOOKING, DEPRESSING LITTLE ENGLAND

In a fine speech at the SNP Conference in Glasgow's SECC on Friday 15th October 2016 Alex Salmond former Scottish First Minister and former SNP Leader condemned Theresa MNay's intolerant, backward looking depressing little England, which given the NO vote in September 2014 Scotland remains attached to.

Alex Salmond, SNP Foreign Affairs Spokesperson making his speech at SNP Conference Glasgow 2016

Mr Salmond, now SNP Foreign Affairs Spokesperson said the following...

They say that people who choose to live and work here in our country are a problem and need to be kicked out. We say they are an asset and must stay with us.
They say that other Europeans among us are cards to be played or bargaining chips to be staked. We say they are our fellow citizens.
We should be grateful to the Tory Party. In their Birmingham conference they lifted the lid on the true intent and the emptiness of their programme.
If we stick to London rule then we know exactly what lies in store; a closed, intolerant, backward-looking society. Theresa May's little England - has there ever been a more miserable, depressing, backward-looking notion ever offered to the people of this nation?
There is a better way for Scotland. Let us proclaim our vision of a new Scotland - open, tolerant, prosperous, growing and above all free to choose our own way forward.
Cartoon : Nicola Sturgeon pulling Scotland towards Europe, Theresa May pushing England away from Europe

Tuesday, 11 October 2016

Shut the f**k up! Are these the words of a local ned? No they are the words of the recently elected Provan MSP Ivan McKee

I cannot believe what I heard back from an SNP meeting tonight!! (This has now been corroborated from multiple sources).
Newly elected MSP Ivan McKee (Provan branch), who as you'll recall hired a person who had made inappropriate references to the IRA on his Facebook page, (see this post regarding Allan Casey) told a group of concerned branch members that they could "shut the fuck up" instead of discussing it on social media. It must be stressed that the only reason it was being discussed on social media is that a newspaper link to the IRA story had been posted on a Scottish independence site.
Firstly Ivan McKee should not have hired the person without proper background checks. He seems to have hired him just because he was a best friend or crony of the MP Anne McLaughlin.
Secondly, the people the MSP Ivan McKee told to "shut the fuck up" worked very hard to get him elected and have every right to raise and talk about their concerns. 
The incident reflects badly on the SNP and also on the people who helped get you elected. Nobody has any right to talk to people like that, and swearing at members (especially from a member of government) is inappropriate and unprofessional.
Furthermore, another elected representative Anne McLaughlin who hired all her pals and partner after becoming elected put on the waterworks when accused of nepotism.

nepotism : the practice among those in power or influence of favouring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs.
The irony!

What's worse is that said partner then told those concerned to "watch their backs". So we now have personal threats in addition to the rest. Shocking!
The things coming out about Provan branch SNP just seem to be getting more and more outrageous. 

Who is running this branch? 

Why would anyone, least of all the Secretary of Provan SNP Ruari Kelly think of putting a pic holding a crossbow is suitable as a profile pic when he is going for office high up in the SNP? Notice he is going for the Disciplinary Committee. Does this mean he is going to use the crossbow on anyone found to have committed anything he deems an infraction? 

Ruari Kelly SNP, Secretary for SNP Provan
Ruari Kelly SNP, Secretary for SNP Provan

Not only do we have allegedcronyism/nepotism (please also see this post), we have alleged bullying incidents at meetings please see myblog (now that I know that this is the branch that was discussed), we have people enthused by the indyref supposedly leaving in disgust after a single or a few meetings, and now we have a person as secretary whose judgement should be called into question at the very least. 

Are we not now getting to resignation territory?

Why is something not being done about this by the SNP? Do they want to attract disrepute and lose the next election and possibly the next independence referendum as a result? They seem to be actively courting bad publicity and for what ends? 

I am strongly pro-independence and pro-SNP (although less so now that I have been hearing regarding this branch, even although at the beginning I didn't know these stories were to do with this specific branch as the information was sent to me anonymously) but I have becoming increasingly worried by the responses to these stories. Why do pro-indy people in general (although not all) react as if this is to do with the messenger being a hostile enemy rather than a concerned but critical friend? It is exactly because this sort of behaviour needs to be nipped in the bud (look at what happened to the Labour Party in Scotland) that it is being raised at this time. Do we want these people being in Government of an independent Scotland? I think the answer to that is, most definitely not!