There’s something heavily ironic about Murdo (never elected in his own right) Fraser’s ‘insightful’ comment on social media the other day, following the SNP and the Greens cementing their agreement to work together in the Scottish Parliament. (The Scottish Parliament of course having been created to run in such a manner that it is virtually impossible for a single party to form a productive government without the co-operation of at least one of the other parties in the chamber, thus encouraging cross-party working).
According to the bold yin (known for his penchant to dog whistle up on demand British nationalist discarded Ex-Mastermind contestants, like the mob which decided to take over George Square for a communal urine, cheap wine and not-so-square go fest with each other a few months ago, and their brothers-in-hate of 19 September 2014) the resulting co-operating arrangement means, for Scotland, that it ‘ looks like we just got the Government we didn’t vote for’.
Wow! Really? Scotland having a government it didn’t vote for? How could this be? Surely not? The people of Scotland would never put up with it. Decisions being made on their behalf by politicians they haven’t democratically voted for? Naw, never…… couldn’t happen……..Oh mind you …wait….
Would that not then include every single Conservative government there has been since the early 1950s? Would it not include them, and wouldn’t it also include the time when that same right of centre party latter-day mini empire fantasists went into a dodgy coalition with the Liberal Democrats, and the you-scratch-my-back I’ll-polish-your-sash deal with the DUP?
C’mon now Murdo. There’s trolling, and then there’s trolling yourself. As an individual who has never once been successful in being the democratically selected candidate in any kind of election, (since the Boys Brigade ousted you from the role of drum polisher) relying on all occasions on the list process to obtain, and then retain a seat in the Holyrood Chamber, If I was you I’d be keeping quiet about all of that normal and just means of selecting individuals and political parties to form governments called democracy. As dear old departed Gran, much loved and missed, would say (from an original quote oft attributed perhaps wrongly to Lincoln) “ It’s better to keep your gub shut and appear as if there is a want aboot ye, than open it and remove all doot”.
Just think of it eh. If Scotland had never previously been subject to that ”looks like we just got the Government we didn’t vote for” we’d never have had the poll tax or the decimation of much of the heavy industry and manufacturing sector of the 1980’s. There might still be some miners at work, in a more healthier, safer environment than before, and involved in re-training for a transition to a new greener Scotland, with wind and tide technology leading the way. We might still have had a significantly sized shipbuilding industry. Thousands of desperate souls flung on the scrapheap of poverty, unemployment, homelessness and addiction might still be alive and living happy, loving, productive lives. We might already be an independent nation, enjoying the benefits as a country of the creation of our wealth, making the decisions ourselves about how best to use our resources, assets, and the financial returns and borrowing power created by our labours, for the benefit of all of our citizens. We might even still be in a free-trading partnership for Scotland’s goods and services with the largest trading bloc in the world.
Shut up Murdo. You are embarrassing yourself.
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