There is an
interesting similarity in the way Nicola Sturgeon and Owen Smith represent
their cases against the democratic decisions of the people they are trying to persuade
to support them. Sturgeon continues to barely keep herself
afloat by sabre rattling against the verdict of the electorate to leave Europe
and still issues empty threats against those who decided that Scotland will
remain as part of the UK. Both of their positions are patently untenable when
you remove the bombast and empty rhetoric.
In Sturgeon’s case, she is now in the absurd position of
telling people she will re run the independence referendum which they lost some
two years ago and she also insists in trying to interfere with the decision
taken in the European referendum which she also lost just recently, democracy evidently
is not her strong point. The unpalatable truth for her and her credulous
followers who believe the nonsense she continues to spout is that she has no
cards to play, hence the reason that she continues to shout loud and long about
repeat referendums without mentioning how she will set about achieving this.
The answer is of course that she can’t, if she could we would have heard by now
how she will go about doing it. She is now paying the price for the part she
played in returning David Cameron to Downing Street, a more intelligent and
experienced politician would have been far more aware of how vulnerable Cameron
would be in a Euro. Election but she went with Salmond’s orders again, she must
be one of the few people who did not realize that Salmond by then was incapable
of walking and chewing gum at the same time since his career and his reputation
crashed and burned among the flames of the SNP’s farcical independence referendum
campaign.
The wretched Owen Smith like Sturgeon now looks like a
rabbit caught in the headlights of a bus and he has no way of escaping. How on
Earth did they convince him to run? Had I been in his position I might have
looked around me and thought to myself, where is Balls? Benn, Burnham, Hodge,
Watson, Bryant? Where have all the big hitters who planned this gone? It should
have occurred to him that because of the actions of himself and the rest of the
PLP he was a dead man walking, even many of those who do not want Corbyn to win
were frowning on such deceitful behaviour and so it proved. He has now had to
submit himself to a humiliating series of hustings, and rallies which have been
totally eclipsed by his opponent’s activities, his opponent who by comparison
looks like a rock star at a concert and he is sixty seven years old! Alas the
big name instigators of this debacle have left him to swing in the wind. He
apes the same tactics as Sturgeon in that he attacks Corbyn over the Brexit
campaign without being able to tell the members what it is that he either did
not do or did not do well enough. He also says that he will fight Brexit harder
than Corbyn without telling us how he will do this, he condemns Corbyn as being
useless but as Jeremy pointed out with a sickening thud at a hustings he wants
him in his cabinet if he wins!.
Smith and those people who created this awful mess will be
lucky to cling to careers as back benchers if Corbyn wins and becomes PM and
there will be no drama about the process, it will be inevitable and the Labour
Party will unite and emerge stronger as a force for Socialism.
