Dear All
Better Together has had a rough time over the last wee
while, some people saw them suffered a number of PR disasters.
Leaving aside Lord Robertson 'end of the world' scenario
which has been universally condemned as a tad over the top, they seemed to have
stumbled slightly. In any campaign; especially one that runs as long as this
independence one, mistakes will happen.
The trick is not to make a habit of it.
Some people on the Conservative Party side called for
Alistair Darling to be removed, hiccups are no reason for panic, and certainly
no reason for removal, independence is and never will be a 'talent' contest.
Popularity will carry you only so far, details, substance
and gravitas is what is winning the day for Better Together.
So, with a few Better Together setbacks, Scotland 's
'jolly fat man' Alex Salmond and unpopular Nicola Sturgeon must have thought
they had turned a corner.
Not a bit of it, they are not the drivers of events, they
just react, which is why there is no real momentum, what they are getting in
the polls is rather like false echoes.
The Scottish independence is and remains a question of who
do you trust.
As we are seeing from the largesse of Salmond's con trick of
'standing with the common man' then him in private running up £2,900 a night
hotel rooms, which incidentally the Nationalists tried to keep secret, is there
is a chasm of between him and the Scottish people regarding trust.
Alex Salmond is no William Wallace.
Salmond is pissing on the people of Scotland without the courtesy of
even calling it 'rain'.
His drive towards independence has hit the buffers and suffered
a setback after support for a Yes vote has stalled, so much for having
"too many talented people".
The Yes campaign must have thought, good times where just
around the corner and they would get a surge as the unionist campaign lost a
few steps.
Support for independence has dropped from 39 per
cent to 37 per cent in the last four weeks.
£2,900 a night, 12 kinds of pillows, marble counters in the
kitchen, downtown Manhatten living like a despot from an African state in an
expensive hotel.
Ring any bells for anyone?
The Yes campaign will continue to see blips, pings, and
false echoes, but this will be down to the ebb and flow of people having
emotional highs or lows. People who are unhappy today with Westminster who the
next day may not be so unhappy is a problem.
Emotion isn't the way to win independence, and neither is
the bizarre phoney childcare policy, outed as a total sham and utterly bogus.
As to Ms. Sturgeon's attempts, they are quite frankly
risible, reduced to screaming every time a pro UK politician puts their foot in
their mouth, she is acting like the 'herald' of the mob.
You could reasonably ask the question of her recent
performances, 'are you mental; is that your problem?'
Despite trying to 'bribe' women and by having Sturgeon front
it as the 'face of independence' only 28.5 per cent of females now support
independence, down four points from 32.5 per cent in March.
Apparently her unique selling point of having 'tits' hasn't
worked, and it also hasn't worked for Alex Salmond either, his 'tits' aren't
anything special!
The fall in the Yes vote is largely among women who are
already staunchly opposed to independence despite the SNP and the SSP members
running 'Women for independence' to get them worked up. The more little groups
that are set up each claiming to 'have a voice' weakens the independence bid.
The SNP have the odious Natalie McGarry who was crushed, not
unexpectedly, at the Cowdenbeath by-election in 'women for independence'.
Having listened to her rant on the gate during the Govan
by-election on polling day, she talks some amount of shit.
If you are standing at the gate as a representative of a
political party, you focus on the task at hand, winning over voters. She was
dressed like a Mexican bandit with a poncho on, babbling away like it was some
kind of social event.
Perhaps someone should teach her 'teamwork' because she did
a disservice to the SNP candidate she was purporting to represent.
Looked like tramp, spoke like a halfwit.
As Napoleon remarked:
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making
a mistake."
How she got picked for the Cowdenbeath by-election would be
a mystery if not for the fact her aunty is an ex SNP MSP currently the
Presiding Officer at Holyrood. It seems a lot of the 'talented' people in the
SNP come from little SNP dynasties.
The latest findings of the continual collapse of support will
pose headaches for the SNP, having built their House of Cards, they are seeing
that it cannot even support sham policies.
The SNP are preparing for a 'pre wake' for Alex Salmond,
called their party conference in Aberdeen, dressed up a victory celebration no
doubt where countless people will talk utter crap about social justice.
Heading the line up of 'social justice' campaigners the SNP
will wheel out their Euro Candidates, including Chris Stephens who was happy to
let an Asian man be abused by Shona McAlpine at an SNP candidate selection
meeting. Maybe Mr. Stephens could go to the European Parliament if there is a
vacancy for a window cleaner, but he has no chance going as an MEP.
He doesn't have #radicalthinking either in politics or on
twitter.
Presumably during the Conference, we will also see Salmond
and Sturgeon publicly kiss each other in front of the cameras, what a load of
bollocks that piece of staged managed crap is. But, they keep doing it, it is
pathetic stuff indeed from two equally false people. There will be lots of
cheering, standing ovations which no doubt will be timed to last for ten
minutes, and plenty of opportunities for Salmond to be seen with young people.
That's another one of his tricks; he is so 'popular' the youth just naturally
reach out and flock to be with him.
Especially when 'organised'!
In countless debates across Scotland , school kids have rejected
him and his poisonous vision.
In one poll in Perth, the vote for No was 98.5% against him,
ironically the debater for Yes was a Nationalist MP, as I said, real problem
due to lack of talent in the SNP.
Polling expert Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University
The blips have seen Salmond claims his side have the
momentum in the referendum battle, 2010, he said he would return 20 MPs to
Westminster; that never happened, he didn't gain a single extra MP.
The slogan used 'elect a local champion' was bogus, I listen
to a Salmond crony, Osama Saeed talk, repeating that slogan at an SNP meeting,
and I thought, 'what the fuck is he talking about'.
Osama Saeed had a trick at SNP by-elections where he would
turn up with kids and do no activism, I noticed this countless times at
by-elections so much so I remarked on this to others in the party.
Back to Professor Curtice findings, who I was sitting next
to on 'white paper' day, as I was invited to be a guest on a BBC radio
broadcast, odious Natalie McGarry was also a guest, I just ignored her, in the
round up, I raised the issue of trust in Salmond and Sturgeon, she countered
that by saying there wasn't an issue.
Next day Brian Taylor, political editor of the BBC ran an
article on....... trust!
George Laird right again.
Anyway Professor Curtice said the latest findings appeared
to show that a spike in support for Yes at the start of the year had petered
out.
Gimmicks as I said don't work, phoney little groups run by
SNP members under another name don't work either, government on pause doesn't
work, producing bad law doesn't work; failing to listen doesn't work. And
generally cronyism coupled with stupidity is a poor substitute for
intelligence.
Curtice added:
"With the Yes vote still flat lining, this poll
suggests it was a one-off change".
Better Together leader Alistair Darling said the poll showed
that Scots want to remain part of Britain .
He added:
"While the SNP spend every day talking about how they
want to break up the UK ,
devolution is clearly the settled will of the Scottish people. It’s no surprise
Scots are rejecting Alex Salmond’s negative and divisive campaign when he won’t
tell us what would replace the pound or how our essential public services, like
schools and hospitals, will be funded. Walking away from the UK puts the things we rely on at
risk."
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at 
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