Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Salmond Browned Off
Even leaving aside the failure to deliver the only thing that the SNP was elected to do, even leaving aside the failure of a single Scottish seat to change hands at the most momentous General Election for decades, and even leaving aside the collapse of the Irish Republic, where on earth is Alex Salmond left if Gordon Brown really was behind the Lockerbie release all along?
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Er, the lack of changing hands is down to a skewed voting system!
ReplyDeleteEr, the majority of MSPs (apart from nominally when Wendy was in charge of Labour) are against a referendum.
Er, Ireland is in meltdown but is Norway? And of course being big does not save you. Ring Rome.
And this Lockerbie thing. Well it is looking clearer that Labour stitched the SNP up on the issue - the SNP did not take orders from London. It would have been excellent political fodder if London had tried to impose its will.
Salmond will maybe look back and say "we should have allowed al-Megrahi to go home on the back of the Treaty drawn up by the UK government and blamed them for it saying Scotland's hands were bound by the Scotland Act over foreign treaties."
Now what about this Manx minister mouthing off. Why are you not petitioning the island's governor for his dismissal?
Ah, he is Manx and the Scots are Scots. You hate the Scots. I forgot. Like a Slavophobic Teuton with a Slavic surname - like Kurt Waldheim!
Norway has never been part of the United Kingdom, so has never pretended to leave. I'll have a full post up on that by five o'clock.
ReplyDeleteAs for Lockerbie, check what you said on here at the time. You were terribly proud of this act of independent foreign policy? But it was Gordon Brown all along. Not Alex Salmond. Whitehall. Not Holyrood. Perhaps that welcoming party in Tripoli should have hung out the Union Flag rather than the Saltire.
It is the same electoral system as in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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