So there we have it. Twenty polls in a row and counting, consistently and without waver, record that the people of Scotland, faced with a pandemic which is ravaging its way across the planet (and being grossly mishandled in a criminally negligent manner by a way out of their depth centrally controlling government from another country, still letting thousands of travellers from around the world in to wander freely almost a year after countries who have had deaths numbers of under one thousand since closed their borders, on what is basically an Island) and dragged out of Europe completely against their democratic will, and completely ignored and disregarded by those dragging them out whilst they did so, are firmly behind the idea of returning Scotland to self-government, and most are keen to do so as soon as it is possible. That fact is as clear as the clearest bell ever rung in clear bell land.
However, all of that, according to the finger-on-the pulse bumbling buffoon occupying 10 Downing Street (when he isn’t clodhopping around the country in his clown shoes, squirting pretend Covid-19 vaccine out of the plastic flower in his lapel into the faces of passer-by) is poppycock. According to him the people of Scotland don’t want to “spend more time on constitutional wrangling”.
Watching the news clips of the slovenly Muppet cutting about the Central Belt yesterday like a demented Tasmanian Devil on a bad hair day, waving his invisible allegorical flag I can’t help but wonder about the clear paradox Johnson created by going against the science, against all advice, to Scotland, during these dark times.
Him, and his government make great play, (they think it’s an ace card) and he mentioned it again yesterday, about how terrible the party of Scottish government, and the many hundreds of thousands of us who are advocates for an independent Scotland, are for taking steps to facilitate a canvassing of our peers about the future governance and sovereignty of Scotland during a pandemic.
Meanwhile, on the other hand, during the same pandemic, him and his advisors are proper mad keen to take every possible opportunity that becomes available, or that they can manufacture, like yesterday, to campaign like Trump at a hillbilly hoedown and squirrel bake, for the continuance of their precious (to them) Union.
They wheeled oot the sojers (he forgot the flypast this time),keep several medical scientists away from their workbenches whilst you fanny about like Frank Spencer in a lab coat, and talk half-thought-out muttered nonsense about how great everything is, as long as you still let us govern you. Oh, and then get in the old usual trope that never gets stale about what’d gonnae happen to Auld Lizzie’s mob if Scotland leaves the union? Who’ll save you from the Sino Russians, and the daddy of them all, straight from the Proudscotbut playbook, what about the pound?
That, dear friends, is what you would call a brass neck to beat all others. He’s even made it clear that he’ll be back up the road before May’s election to campaign on behalf of Wee Doogie, the VAR with the batteries removed.
You’ve tae shut up about independence because it’s unseemly, but he can carry on wandering around like a Beetlejuice version of Winston Churchill telling you how great it is living in the 1950’s.
Scotland needs to get away from this circus, a back of a fag packet contract which holds it back, ties it down, sucks it dry, binds it to a distinctly dodgy past and links it to an entity which has no understanding or self-awareness of its real status in the world in the 21st century. Also when you look at their catalogue of incompetent actions over the last twelve months they are contributing to our people becoming ill, some gravely, and some tragically are dying. Independence is now an imperative, not an aspiration.
There was absolutely no need for Boris Johnson and his entourage to make the journey that no one else is allowed to do unless it’s essential yesterday. All of the thanking, virtual elbow touching, and cringe-worthy fancy dress to look like he’s not getting in the road of people doing real work could easily have been done via the wonders of modern audio visual technology. He could even have campaigned for his union to the same extent, in fact to a greater extent, by getting his government’s media arm, the BBC, to broadcast a one or two hour special, that no doubt they could have repeated and sound bitten, and clipped for news on the hour, every hour for a 48 hour news cycle to the point of inducing boak, of him being smarmy and jovially posh to Scottish medical professionals and service personnel of the future Scottish Defence Force.
Yet he still chose to put others at risk. There are over one hundred thousand innocent people dead, many of whom who could still be alive if it hadn’t been for the grave incompetence of him and his government. Has the guy nae conscience, has he no shame?
Lastly, on the subject of Johnson taking half-thought-out muttered nonsense, I mention the Guardian’s article overnight about his visit to Scotland directly, where journalist John Crace quotes the bumbling Prime Minister verbatim. Talking at the Livingston facility developing a new Covid-19 vaccine Johnson said..
“If [the vaccine is] approved by the MHRA then we will have 60m doses of it by the end of this year for the whole of the British people. And so it’s a success for Scotland. Uh, it’s a success for, uh, Britain and, uh, it’s a success for Britain because it is a success for Scotland. It’s a success for Scotland because it’s a success for Britain.
So, uh, I’m, uh, you know, it was very, very encouraging to see it. That’s, that’s … I may have done some other things as well while I have been here although I can’t immediately recollect what they are. It’s been an action-packed day and always a joy to see you.”
Really? Would you place your trust in this man to govern your country? I wouldn’t trust him to go for chips.
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