The fashion
for ex Party luminaries overtly criticising those in charge of their own
parties today seems to be spreading rapidly to the former “big brother”
controlled SNP,
no doubt the dissidents were always there but they were clearly too petrified
of salmond’s “reign” of terror to raise
their heads above the parapet. They are now becoming emboldened by the approaching
referendum and the recognition among many members that they are going to lose,
despite all those years of biting their tongues for fear of accusations of treachery
or even “unscottishness” as some of the
snp bug eyed loons would call them.
We have seen
in the past where attempts to defy salmond can lead, consider the banishment of
Margo MacDonald for daring to give up cheek to wee Eck, cast aside to wander in
the political wilderness by him and the same people who have been on TV and
Radio telling anyone daft enough to listen to them how much they liked, nay,
loved her following her recent demise. Then just last week we had the great leaders
ex financial guru and bag carrier Prof. John Kay who blatantly rubbished wee
eck’s financial and economic gibberish and in doing so he showed how much he
was enjoying being out of the sinister malevolent shadow of the great dictator.
Even the “mister cellophane” of Scottish politics Patrick Harvey eventually
stormed out of the snp cabal known as the yes campaign, proving that worms can
indeed turn. Jim Sillars has of course been in a bad mood for years and now he
is looking chipper as he sees the edifice starting to crack, he stands to the
side gloating with his ever ready big bucket of bulldung to throw over the
first minister at the appropriate time.
Then a
mister Stan Blackley appears, Stan who? I hear you ask, well, he was one of the
chosen ones by the eckster to guide the Scottish ship of State to its Scottish Valhalla
as one of the yes campaign’s influential
leaders, all 5 of whom are no longer around, all offsky, like a bunch of rats
up a roan pipe. This guy (an enthusiastic
tree hugger apparently) took his revenge all right, he went public with a
withering eye witness account of the shambles that is the yes campaign , his
analysis sounded like they couldn’t organise ‘a turn of the wash house key” or
a “turn of the close cleaning bobbin”.
There are
very few situations that the arrival of a past snp leader can’t make worse and
right on cue, last week we saw the
arrival of the snp’s very own ‘Bertie Wooster’ ex leader and prehistoric anti gay bigot Gordon Wilson. He
announced a novel discrepancy with one of the many mantras of the snp brain
dead, the idea that (for the sake of the argument) they would automatically stroll
along as before as members of the EU under a separate Scotland. “Be that as it
may” (and not many are wacky enough to
believe it) opined Gordon as he brought the point to the attention of the snp
flock that it was hardly fair to expect the great mass of the Scottish people
to have a referendum on separation without having a referendum on EU membership
as EU membership is a UK thing and, a separate Scotland would be kind of not a
UK thing, that’s a sore yin right alex?. The question is now of course how will
‘del boy’ salmond wriggle out of this one?. My guess is that salmond will
employ all his ruthlessness, his ability as a practiced liar and his rat like
cunning to ensure that Gordon Wilson will end up ‘sleeping with the fishes’ but
someone will follow him.