Saturday 7 March 2020
American elections, the SNP. independence/gender recognition act,
Well here we are again, almost at the end of another eventful week. Once again, a very busy week in the business with positive progression towards acceptance of our application to be a government, vehicle testing station. Confident that will be given, and certainly hope so, as we have installed most of the necessary equipment already. Body and paint shop in full operation now. Full steam ahead.
So, the coming American elections due in November and the primaries seem to have produced a two-horse race as far as the Democrats are concerned, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. On the other side it looks very much as though it will be trump again for the Republicans. Now I would suggest the best way of assessing the best man to challenge Trump is to look at the way both Bernie and Joe are being treated by the Republican press. I would suggest that it is Bernie who is more often on the receiving end of criticism from the republican/ Jewish leaning press. Therefore it is, I would suggest, reasonable to offer the suggestion that the best candidate to fight against Trump is therefore Bernie Sanders as he is the most feared of the two runners.
Now having said that, I do not think that the republican press is Bernie’s greatest enemy. No, in fact I believe his greatest threat is from within the Democratic movement just as it was the last time he fought for nomination against Hillary Clinton where he was basically cheated out of the nomination for a very poor candidate. You might have noticed that I am not a great fan of Donald but that is all to do with his mental suitability as a president of the most powerful country on the planet. He has made some really stupid decisions such as moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem and that latest “peace plan for Palestine” is simply a black joke. However, he has not “yet” started a major war. Now on the other hand, had Hillary became president she would have been even more of a poodle to Israel and there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that we would have been at war with Iran within a matter of weeks of her becoming president. When I say we, I mean the UK and probably some of the countries in Europe who the US would manage to bully into compliance.
OK so back to Bernie, America needs a change from the Republican mind set and also from the diluted republican mindset which would have came with Hillary. It is kind of like the setup we had here during Tony Blairs term of office. He was Labour but it was a Labour party that you couldn’t have put a cigarette paper between them and the Tories. Yes, we had the red Tories and the Blue Tories and that is what you would have had if Hillary had been in power and it is probably what you will have if Joe Biden is a elected.
So, what I am saying is that if you good people on the other side of the pond wish for change, then vote for Bernie.
So, to the SNP, a party which seems on the verge of collapse. You might think it strange that I am saying this about a party who returned 47 out of a possible 59 MPs to Westminster only a couple of months ago. Ok so let me explain. In the Months before the General Election in December there was chaos in Westminster as the Tories tried to push through the EU withdrawal act., They were months at it and the Tories were hemmed in as they did not have a clear majority for the course they were taking on the EU. They wanted to hold an early General election but could not do it as it needed an act of parliament as they were knocked back at the first attempt because of the required very large majority they needed to gain that act at the first two votes. Ok they went for a third vote which needed only a simple majority and against all logical thinking the SNP together with the Lib Dems decided to give them that. This was followed by Jeremy Corbin folding as well and so we had the election on the 12 December returning the Tories with a majority of 80. This was one of the stupidest acts in a long line by Nicola Sturgeon. Now to go back a bit, in the run up to the GE campaign Nicola held a hurriedly arranged rally in Glasgow’s George square where she indicated that the election would be fought on independence, and indeed a referendum in 2020. This of course fired up all the Nicola is God, acolytes to actually believe her and come the election campaign there was not a mention of independence on any of the candidates election material only about Brexit and in effect saving the union. It wasn’t really until after the election that people realized what had happened and to make matters worse she gave a speech in which she seemed to be trying to prepare the loyal followers for a referendum sometime in the future but not in 2020.
So, there was Nicola Sturgeon committing a fraud by invoking the independence issue in order to get her MP’s voted into Westminster. Utterly and completely dishonest. Since then there has been outrage on social media with twitter exploding with condemnation of the one-time great leader. A leader who was only great in the minds of the unthinking mob who threw all their hopes on to her.
Now as if all that was not bad enough, Nicola has been pushing through the Scottish parliament the Gender Recognition bill which, in short means that people who are not comfortable in their bodies can self ID as a member if the opposite sex and thereafter have access to Women’s private places and compete in Women’s sports . Absolutely crazy situations and a direct threat to Women’s privacy and wellbeing.
Now the back ground to this could be possible as rumors indicate, to do with Nicolas personal sexual orientation, which is of course her own business but it can lead to questions as to the probity of pushing gender bending policies such as indoctrination of school children and suggestions that there could be gender changing arrangements made by issuing puberty blockers. This all sits very uncomfortable with many people and indeed parents, there was an incident the other week where an openly gay female member of parliament Mhari Black organized a transvestite show for school children by a person who went under the stage name of Flow Job. Utterly disgusting.
So, all this and much more such as the suggestion going about at the present time of an extra marital affair carried on By Nicola Sturgeon and another female politician. This is a stress at the moment hearsay and perhaps Nicola could clear them up and indeed clear the air.
So, the SNP as an effective political party are on very shaky ground. On top of this is the Alex Salmond trial which starts on Monday and Nicola Sturgeon is not expected to come out of that very well. My hope is that Alex will be cleared of charges which could have been constructed against him.
At the end of the day the independence movement is not in a good place and a new leader is what is needed, or indeed a new party which Alex (is cleared) could fit well into.
I walked through the city center in Dundee today and was pleased to see a stall manned by SNP members. My pleasant surprise was not long in diminishing when I went over to speak to them. I mentioned the I was pleased to see they had a lot of material giving the true financial situation in Scotland produced by Business for Scotland. I introduced myself (although I think they all knew me) and conversed about the present state of the independence movement. This was met with blank stares and growls and tirades about how independence could not be stopped if the will of the people demanded it. I put forward the suggestion that it will take more than that to convince people that we should be independent and that the SNP were really not performing as they should. This brought about convulsions and a raising of voices stating, basically that Nicola Sturgeon was wonderful and doing a great job. I offered the suggestion that as the Alex Salmond case was about to start on Monday there was a distinct chance that Nicola would be out of a job very shortly. I asked them to look at the table they were standing at and could they see any form of material which had come from the SNP. There was SNP members, standing at a table covered with Business for Scotland information material and copies of the National and they were berating me for criticizing the SNP for not doing enough. Honestly, the irony simply escaped them. At this point one of the Women lifted a copy of the National in front of her face presumably to block me out , quite possibly believing that the national was soundproof. If there are any of the Dundee SNP reading this, then please do not under any circumstance let that bunch of comedians anywhere near a campaign (if it ever actually starts). Next week and the Alex Salmond trial will make compulsive watching.
So now to more important business and that is a pint at Mennies. I lift my glass to you no matter where you be on this fragile planet if ours
Slainte
PS next weeks “The World from Mennies” could be coming from the middle east as I am off on my travels again, starting Friday with a flight from Edinburgh to Dubai
Bob Costello 