If anyone ever needed to find a metaphor for the unravelling
and embarrassing Yes Campaign, last week’s ‘Battle of Bannockburn’ celebrations
was a gift. It was set up by alex (private Baldrick) salmond as a ‘cunning plan’
to get one over on the Engurlish, the No campaign and to stir up bad feeling
among the more lumpen of Scots. Those who buy in to this ‘we hate the Engurlish’
idiocy, with his legendary ‘rat like cunning’ he thought he’d had a brainwave,
another squalid little devious blow below the belt as is his want. He strutted
around as only he can boasting of a magnificent day for Scots. to celebrate beating
the reviled Engurlish, the crowd he bragged would be enormous?, predicted to be
45,000 ultimately reduced to 20,000, and that figure wasn’t met either. £66 a
ticket, yes you read that right £66 a ticket, a ban on bringing your own refreshments,
family friendly right?, this of
course was designed to allow the organisers to ‘fleece the tourists’ and those
with weans in tow, no readmission to the site either in case you left to buy a ‘fish
supper’. Utterly inadequate facilities for those daft enough to attend from a
lack of seating to little protection from the elements, yes you read that
correctly as well, no protection from the elements at an outdoor event in
Scotland!, some poor inadequate apologists for this circus were heard to opine “at
least the rain is a wee bit warmer than usual”. Huge slow moving queues appeared to buy over
priced food and drink and even longer queues of crabbit and drookit miserable people also formed to use the
inadequate portaloos.
This woefully put together programme meant that thousands of
worn out angry people left after waiting for hours in vain for the main event to
start, the highlight of the show turned out to be the brief glimpses that the
poor ripped off spectators managed to get of the Red Arrows display from the
rather more exhilarating and professional ‘Armed Forces Day’ taking place just
along the road a bit. This was of course set up to celebrate the rather
more meaningful 70th. anniversary of D Day in WW2, that’s the war
the snp did not want to fight in the hope that Engurland would be defeated. This
by contrast was well staged and professional, oh and it was also free to the
public! – the Engurlish did not win the re-enactment of the battle of Bannockburn
last Saturday but , had they done so it would have surprised no one.
Make no mistake about it, this was a
humiliation for salmond. Cameron could not have picked a more guaranteed method
of putting on display the obvious benefits of being a part of the UK had he
been invited to do so, this was stark, obvious and merciless, wee Eck despite displaying
his usual ‘Chutzpah’ was crushed. He thought he could exploit Bannockburn but
forgot he was dealing with a Tory, Cameron couldn’t believe his good fortune,
he simply ‘seen wee Eck’s Bannockburn and raised him an Armed Forces Day’. When
it comes to the political black arts you have to travel back to the Roman
Senate to find the Tories equals back to when Cassius, Brutus and Casca had
that famous ‘stushie’ with Caesar. Wee Eck despite his innate talent for the
underhand is, when compared to the big boys of the Tory party just an
enthusiastic amateur.
4 comments:
I was at both events........you have a skewed view of the two events, one a 700 year commemorative sell out and very enjoyable despite the cringe you trident nuclear weapon lovers in labour and the tories have.
The other was a wash out, the social media are full of the pictures and your hero David Cameron managed to look foolish as your fellow tory and labour councillors in Stirling had a spectacular failure to win the limelight.
The big losers from the labour and tory politicking of armed forces day manipulated to clash with Bannockburn Live were of course the armed forces themselves, past and present who deserved a day to demonstrate their efforts, but instead used cynically as a a political football but he westminster based desperadoes.
I was a bit surprised the labour tory ruse to promote the union and hijack Bannockburn failed so much mainly due to a lack of interest (except from the bbc and media who backtracked ha) and you'd have to be a spectacular idiot living in denial to think otherwise as the evidence is all over the social media, Derek Bateman's Blog etc etc
Angus MacRuary
I presume since that's two of my comments on this pile of crap that you have censored that you will only now accept comments from people who agree with you, a very exclusive club indeed.
why dont you blog about something real and important like this;
from 1997 onwards Gordon Brown removed £5billion in value every year from the uk pension pot devaluing uk pensions by £100 billion. Now we all have to work until we are 67 instead of 65.
Gordon brown, the son of the manse is now a multi millionaire, somebody should tell him about the eye of a needle and all that.
Anonymous Anonymous said...Sunday, July 06, 2014 5:25:00 am.
This junk is being printed to show that I print everything whether it agrees with me or not with the proviso that the language is acceptable and no accusations have been made against a third party, these will only be printed if the writer provides a verifiable name and address are you intelligent enough to understand that?. If you stick to the rules I will do as I always do to you and other morons like you, that is tear your arguments to shreds and humiliate you.
Gordon Brown was the best PM this country has ever had. He is worth every penny of his multi trillionaire fortune,
Anonymous said...Friday, July 04, 2014 9:36:00 pm
"politicking of armed forces day manipulated to clash with Bannockburn"
Absolutely correct as I said in my post you cretin. Cameron got the idea from the amateur salmond's attempt to manipulate bannockburn by holding the referendum on it's 700 th. anniversary.
45,000 tickets were printed and 25,000 were dumped and the prices were slashed twice and thousands left before the big ludicrous battle re enactment. You thought it was a success then, could it be perhaps that that is linked to your quaint teuchter background, not used to the big city are you?.
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