The Politics Show Scotland, with the superb Isabel Fraser in the chair.
Iain Gray, Scotland's invisible man, is again pinned to the floor on his Holyrood party's hypocrisy over the Megrahi release. He waffles about what he knew, what he says he didn't know, what he said and didn't say to Gordon Brown, and tries to maintain the utterly ludicrous position that Scottish Labour had a shred of independence from their London-based party and Westminster bosses.
A puppet trying to pretend that his strings weren't pulled ...
He attempts, yet again, to muddy the water over slopping out, trying to maintain the ConLib, Labour UK and unionist media desperate attempt to limit the damage - initially caused by the Wikileaks disclosure of their dirty double-dealing - by smearing the SNP, but is nailed on the vital timescale discrepancy that is the gaping hole in the UK lie.
But the polls would indicate that Labour has been rumbled, and the Scottish people will trust their ain folk. The Middle East is convulsed by oppressed peoples trying to throw off corrupt dictators. Scotland is under the heel of a corrupt democracy, the United Kingdom, but only needs the ballot box to get the hell out from under it.
Vote for your ain folk on May 5th, Scots - vote SNP - the only party that acts solely in the interests of Scots and Scotland, while playing a full, moral part in the European and the international communities.
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Peter, isn't it extraordinary that a "senior" politico will brazenly lie on TV, while knowing that the "actuality" is already under the full glare of the public? Gray is beyond belief - but not in anyway on his own - Straw's digging with convoluted semantics into a deeper and deeper hole - Blair's antics before the Iraq Enquiry - Brown's pronouncements re Al-Megrahi and the daddy of the all - Clinton's avowal - "I did not have sex with that lady" - gulp!
ReplyDeleteThe list is virtually limitless!
Are there any politicos out there who can tell the truth?
Well, I don't believe he was lying. I think he thought he was following the Westminster party line, and was actually kept out of the loop contemptuously by Brown and Straw.
ReplyDeleteGray convinced himself that it was 'his decision' because he thought it accorded with the party line - such is the doublethink capacity of politicians who don't have minds of their own. It reminds me of the old hardline British communists who convinced themselves that everything Stalin and the KGB did becasue they were socialists.
(They never were, of course - they were murderous, totalitarian dictators.)
Gray, badly advised as ever by Glasgow Tammany Hall politicos, and unreconstructed in spite of the best efforts of media image consultants, is now floundering desperately.
I think he is an honest man, out of his depth, in the wrong career and the wrong position as leader of his party. For his sake, I hope he gives up politics and goes and does something worthwhile, as he did before politics got hold of him.
Thanks for posting, Barontorc!
Peter - I just cannot believe Gray was so ignorant of the Al-Megrahi facts that had put Scotland on the world's stage. I am sure he was told by Murphy's crowd in particular to keep the lid on things and get at the SNP. He most likely was kept out of the loop by Westminster - but he would need to have been marooned on a desert island to have escaped from all the media information.
ReplyDeletePeter, Gray is simply doing what his ilk have done for decades, lying before breakfast, lunch & dinner in order that enough people swallow what they are being fed.
ReplyDeleteIf Gray tries this on QT or the upcoming leaders debate Alex Salmond will crucify him.
I don't think people should be lightly accused of lying, even politicians - it's a serious charge and it leaves one open to a libel action. A Google pseudonym is no protection against that.
ReplyDeleteI repeat - I don't believe Iain Gray was lying, I believe he is confused, badly-advised, and has convinced himself of his ludicrous version of events.
In my book, that's even worse, from someone who aspires to be Scotland's First Minister.
I get frustrated too, but I think our case is better advanced by more moderate analysis and comment. I am as vigorous as most in my comments, but there is a line to be drawn.
Peter, I now understand the clarity of your point and gladly accept your view as being the correct one and unreservedly withdraw my comments.
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