George Osborne, presiding over a shambles in the UK economy, and with the Eurozone in meltdown, maintains the ill-judged Cameron attack on Scotland's investment opportunities, dragging in the now notorious Citigroup comment yet again. He's just visited a distillery in Elgin with Ruth Davidson - that may explain his confusion - caught between an inexperienced kickboxer and a large single malt ...
Lucy Adams, Chief Reporter of the Herald gets to the heart of the matter by, with admirable economy, pointing out that it's Osborne that's undermining the economy with scare stories and gloom, when the immediate problem is Europe and the global banking crisis.
Alex Salmond then calmly demolished Osborne, a politician who's not fit to lick his economic boots.
I apologise to Lucy for sandwiching her between Osborne and Alex, but it was the best place for such a mordant and pertinent comment.
A real journalist - something I always respect. Gaun yersel, Lucy!
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What George Osborne knows about economics could be written on the perforated edge of a postage stamp.
ReplyDeleteOur FM is an actual economist - a top economist.
Salmond gave Osborne sensible advice from the outset of the present Tory-Lib Dem economic failure of a government.
Invest in the economy to keep it going and make the cuts less deep and slower or there would be a recession, he told them they were heading to a double dip recession but the genius of Osborne is deaf to the words of others.
Nuff said I think...
My, oh, my, Osbourne looks to be lying through his teeth and "City-whatever" was put-up to making that stinking report, nothing seems surer.
ReplyDeleteI don't know when the respectability barrier of falsehood over truth is breached for politicos, but it's certainly continuously hitting all-time lows following, for example the disgrace of Blair's WMD wobblies.
Not a day goes past when blatant less-than-truthfuls are laid bare, yet for those conniving and complicit unionists, so-called political protagonists with their MSM cohorts, nothing is wrong and decent democracy takes yet another punch in the guts.
Envisage a UK Mark2, with the prosperous, much smaller country, claiming only 10% of total population, but with well over 50% of total GDP wealth, taking prime position as the leader nation.
Is that far fetched? When it comes down to assets and liabilities - that's what the best future looks like for the rump UK and they should be working their "positive" socks off to ensure that's how they're favoured, by Scotland.
The penny just ain't dropped for them, but it's well and truly dropped for Scotland. Our ship's ready to steam for independence.
Using the term "Bullying and intimidation" to describe Westminster's attitude to Scotland is an entirely accurate way to describe it. The current Westminster unionist campaign against Scotland is simply a continuation of a campaign of bullying and intimidation they have carried out already for the past 300+ years. The key fact is that Westminster has always used every trick in the book to intimidate and undermine Scotland's self-confidence and self-will to stand on its own two feet and run its own political and economic affairs and what we are seeing today is simply a stepping up of that policy. With their cupboard completely bare of any legitimate reason for preserving the union the unionists are fixated with doing Scotland down at every opportunity as their means of preserving Westminster rule over Scotland at all costs. Scots need to be aware that this is what we are up against and take heed.
ReplyDeleteThanks, M
ReplyDeleteThis isn't a surprise either: "Independence may end warships work".
ReplyDeleteI'd have kept it for later, but perhaps Philip Hammond knows something I don't. He's certainly going to know where the Navy's tanker order will be placed later this year or early next - probably S. Korea - and might be seeking to divert attention from that, or he may have got a heads up from BAE who run Govan and Scotstoun. We shall see.