Liz Smith demands that Alex Salmond calls the referendum now, and threatens UK implementation. Bring it on, says Wendy Mark II, to the incredulity and thinly-concealed derision of Brian Taylor.
The Tory Party in Westminster is known as The Stupid Party - and lately The Nasty Party. I had hoped that Scottish Tories were neither. Liz Smith certainly isn't nasty nor is she stupid - normally - but on this showing, she is demonstrating zero political nous, and appears ignorant of the fact that her London bosses have already ruled out the mad Forsythian idea of the UK government calling the Scottish referendum.
Get a grip, Liz ... You mustn't listen to the wee Laird o' Drumlean - he's yesterday's man.
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I think one maybe has to get a new definition of stupid because a lot of members of the unionist parties are talking the same nonsense over this issue. It's as if all common sense and reason has been binned to try and get one over Alex. They'll have to try a lot harder as they are only making fools of themselves.
ReplyDeleteps. Watched STV on election night so haven't seen any of the clips from the Beeb which I believe would make a good feature film called "Stunned".
She really is Malcolm Rifkind in drag.
ReplyDeleteShe and the other Brit nats haven't picked up on the fact that the Scots devolved parliament is sovereign in the minds of the SNP and that we could scupper any notions to a forced referendum.
Actually, it's remarkable that they understand that Salmond wants to prove to the Scots that Scotland is viable with independence and try to stop him getting that message across.
Brit nats to their very cores.
The SNP have a great deal of work to do before there is a referendum.
ReplyDeleteThe unionists are not going to take the possibility of Scotland re-gaining her independence lightly and will use every argument they can trump up to discredit the SNP's case.
The case for independence cannot be won if it is simply based upon emotion but can be won if a cast iron economic case is proven to the Scots people.
The SNP must start now to draw up thoroughly credible detailed answers to all the questions that the people of Scotland will need to know before they will cast their votes for independence and these must be made available to the people of Scotland as established facts in the years before the date of the referendum.
For example:-
GERS will have to be enhanced to take account of what the impact will be of taking in the non-devolved income and expenditure in Scotland;
A foreign policy will have to be spelt out in detail as well as what Scotland's self-defence policy and armed forces will be;
The ownership of the oil and gas fields and their tax revenues and projected long term reserves will have to be established without a shadow of a doubt.
Only when these, and many other critical questions are convincingly answered can Scots face up to making a decision at the referendum.