Well, jings, crivens, help ma Boab, another Election!\u00a0 And here\u2019s me thinking, \u201cnow is not the time!\u201d\u00a0 Theresa wants to be the absolute ruler!\u00a0 Chairman May we presume!\u00a0 \u201cThe country is coming together\u201d she says, \u201cbut Parliament aren\u2019t united.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Obviously she and her dastardly Brexiteers are not great believers in a parliamentary democracy.\u201d Let them dae as their telt,\u201d seems to be the way forward in Toryland. What a jolly wheeze, let\u2019s have no opposition.\u00a0 It must be the SNP opposition that\u2019s worrying them, as the Labour Party has been about as useful as a chocolate teapot when it comes to holding the Tories to account!<\/p>\n
Make absolutely no mistake this is a calculated move by May and her cronies to try to rekindle the heydays of the British Empire, when people knew their place and Britannia ruled the waves!\u00a0 We are in very real danger of being dragged under by a bunch of delusional zealots who imagine that the world is just waiting to put the \u201cgreat\u201d back in \u201cBritain!\u201d You think I exaggerate? Think back a few weeks to the ridiculous sabre rattling over Gibraltar.\u00a0 The situation was being likened to the Falklands ,<\/p>\n
A Royal Navy ship was showing the flag in Spanish waters \u2013 the Armada would be sunk again!\u00a0 Where is Sir Francis Drake when you need him?\u00a0 It would be amusing, were it not such scary stuff.<\/p>\n
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What is much more scary, however is what these Tories will do to Social Policy \u2013 clearly their aim is to dismantle the Welfare State.\u00a0 With a small majority, look at the damage already inflicted. The bedroom tax, the slashing of Disability Benefits, the ending of Universal Child Benefit, moving the goalposts on Women\u2019s Pensions and the disgusting rape clause in the new 2 child cap policy on Tax Credits.\u00a0 Already we are getting hints from the Tories that, once they have their \u201clandslide\u201d, the triple lock on pensions is gone, VAT will rise \u2013 a move that will further wreak havoc on the poorest people, and in England, without a shadow of a doubt the NHS will be privatized. \u00a0I wonder how Ruthie will defend that?<\/p>\n
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But should we be surprised?\u00a0 Look at the company kept by the Hard Brexiteers.\u00a0 In their desperation for trading partners, they are trawling the world\u2019s despots .\u00a0 How humiliating was it to see the bold Theresa on bended knee to the House of Saudi. \u00a0Imagine wanting to have anything to do with a country where a woman can be stoned to death for adultery, people beheaded for being homosexual, and where women cannot go out without being accompanied by a male relative.\u00a0 But that is all OK with the Tories, as long as we can increase our sales of aircraft and munitions so the Saudis can keep bombing the bejesus out of Yemen!<\/p>\n
I wrote about Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines in my last blog.\u00a0 Little did I think that Liam Fox would fawn over him and speak of our \u201cshared values\u201d.\u00a0 Shared values \u2013 this is a man who has set loose vigilantes to kill suspected drug dealers \u2013 9000 killed to date in less than a year of Duterte coming to power in that unfortunate, but beautiful nation.\u00a0 Duterte himself, has boasted of personally killing over 20 people, including throwing a man to his death from a helicopter.\u00a0 When you think about it, is it really surprising that Liam Fox thinks so highly of this monster? This is what we have been reduced to post Brexit. The lunatics are truly taking over the Asylum.\u00a0 However, it can, and must be stopped at the Border.\u00a0 Scotland has a way out of this mess \u2013 we must grab it with both hands!<\/p>\n
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A wee postscript.\u00a0 I have to say it is sad to see the Labour Party in Scotland scrabbling around to find candidates to run in the Westminster Election.\u00a0 Changed days, when all you had to do was get selected to be assured of becoming a Labour MP.\u00a0 In those days, not so long ago , it was literally a fact, particularly in the Central belt, that if you wanted a career in politics you joined the Labour Party!\u00a0 Perhaps that was part of their undoing.\u00a0 There was no such thing to them as a \u201ccause\u201d \u2013 it was all about power.\u00a0 The lack of conviction politics is now coming back to haunt them.\u00a0 When I think of the number of times people like myself became candidates, simply to further the cause, with no hope of winning.\u00a0 We fought the good fight, put our message across,\u00a0 and now we are reaping the benefit.\u00a0 Unfortunately for Labour they no longer have a \u201ccause\u201d \u2013 they simply never thought the voters would get wise to them.<\/p>\n
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So it\u2019s \u00a0once more into the breach, dear friends, but this time it is crucial!\u00a0 We must not let the Tories get a hold of any of our councils \u2013 and heaven forfend that they have one single seat left in Scotland after the Westminster election!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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