09 January 2009
Iain Gray is critical of the SNP. Well, obviously! But to the Nationalists’ spokesman, Gray’s criticism of their party constitutes “unremitting negativity” and is “actually an attack on Scotland”.
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As I've said on another thread this tendency of the SNP to equate the interest of the party with that of the nation is disquieting. It's usually a hallmark of authoritarian regimes to identify party and national interest as one and the same.
The SNP have been allowed to get away with this for far too long. Every time they use the phrase "Scotland's Party" there should be howls of outrage from every non-Nat in the land. They're not. They are the same as every other party. Scotland is no ore theirs than it is Labour, Tory, Lib Dem or Monster Raving Loony. The main difference though is that the fundamental reason for their existence is a policy which is opposed by the overwhelming majority of Scots.
When even the mild-mannered managerial soft-spoken Swinney starts to use the language of appropriation it makes me shudder to think what his more rabid colleagues believe. Perhaps the dictatorship of the poragetariat?
"When even the mild-mannered managerial soft-spoken Swinney..."
...the author of "tell the Brits to git aff".
What a pile of shite...and to quote the Daily Rectum too. Iain Grey is an embarrassment but then most Labour members are.
Boorach
Here's the same quote in the Herald. Other than to be gratuitously offensive, what exactly is the point of your comment? That because the Record's editorial line doesn't happen to coincide with your perspective they must have fabricated the quote?!
I'd pack it in SU. When confronted with the titan of debate that is Boorach what chance have you got? "Pile of shite" "Daily Rectum" "embarrassment. " How do you answer that?
Face it, this guy's digested the Lincoln-Douglas debates for breakfast, gobbles up Socrates for lunch, a full helping of Martin Luther King in the evening and snacks on Mandela when he's feeling in need of an intellectual stimulus.
sm753 - point taken but I was thinking more of the image than the - for want of a better and more accurate word - substance. Swinney is the man the Nats wheel out when they want to re-assure the rest of the world that it won't be all haggis and heather come the great day. You just can't picture this guy in woad and full battledress (nor as First Minister either admittedly) the way you can with Macaskill, Neil, Sturgeon etc.
dear oh dear, a nest of 'grievance' from the 'leading' unionist posters.....
How pathetic
dear, oh dear, no coherent response from the King of cut and paste....
How pathetic