The Anti Arty Farty Party

12May/100

Alba Matters: Only independence can stop the Tories

Alba Matters: Only independence can stop the Tories.

No point in me wasting keystrokes when this articulates my view almost 100%.

“So there we have it, Scotland is going to be run by a minority party. A party with only 1 MP in the entire country. A party which owes nothing to the Scottish electorate — after all, even if everyone had voted for Labour, they would still have gotten in — and therefore has no reason to look favourably upon us. Let’s face it: we’re screwed.”

Doug, just brilliant, thank you.

Tagged as: Freedom, General Election, Government, Independence, Labour, Politics, Scotland, SNP No Comments

2Sep/092

Salmond ‘proud’ of support for Megrahi release

Lockerbie: Salmond ‘proud’ of support for Megrahi release — Scotsman.com News.

And I’m proud too. Kenny MacAskill did the right thing.

What this story really illustrates is the ignorance of the English media.

Deals done with the Westminster Labour rabble? I think not.

If they knew anything of the political situation in Scotland today they would understand that an SNP administration in the Scottish Parliament would NEVER be influenced by Gordon Brown. It’s just laughable!

The corrupt, sleazy, underhand, lying cabal that is Labour DID do deals with Libya including the release of Al Megrahi. They wanted to do it using a Prisoner Transfer Agreement and I’m sure all the contracts were ready to sign. All that oil, we won’t need what’s left of the oil in fucking Scotland.

Al Megrahi

Unfortunately the poor man developed prostrate cancer and it became clear that his time on Earth was limited.

The SNP, rightly, refused to release him under a PTA but released him on compassionate grounds as laid down in Scots Law.

He was convicted under Scots Law and he was released under Scots Law.

No deals, no under the counter bungs for oil, just proper application of the law we live under — some of us proud to do so.

Al Megrahi met all the criteria for compassionate release. If Kenny MacAskill had refused his request there would have been a judicial review which would have confirmed that Al Megrahi had the right to be considered for compassionate release.

In the meantime Al Megrahi dies in prison and Scotland is suddenly a pariah in the Arab/Muslim world. Frankly I’m happier we pissed off the Americans, don’t know about you. They’ll stop playing golf and start drinking sour-mash but they won’t blow us into next century — will they?

6% of Scotland’s trade comes from The USA and to be honest I don’t believe for a minute that the majority of intelligent Americans believe his release is an outrage. So should we worry too much about stupid fucking Boycott Scotland campaigns?

Perhaps in time the concept of compassion will be spread by example and the blood-thirsty will see that this difficult situation was handled superbly by the Scottish Government.

There are, however, still questions to be answered about his conviction in the first place. There is concern about the safety of his conviction; so much so that he was allowed a second appeal.

For reasons unknown Al Megrahi dropped his appeal prior to being released. This would have been a condition of a PTA but it seems there was no requirement to drop the appeal to get compassionate release.

So, in the absence of an appeal there needs to be a proper enquiry to establish the truth of the matter although I fear that Mr Al Megrahi will not be around to hear the outcome. I only hope those who bay for blood will be around to hear the truth.

And finally, we should never forget the 270 souls lost that night.

They deserve the truth more than anybody.

Tagged as: Al Megrahi, America, Crime, Government, Kenny MacAskill, Lies, Lockerbie, Politics, Scotland, SNP 2 Comments

9Nov/080

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It’s taken me a couple of days to calm down after the result in the Glenrothes by-election!

What were you thinking of people of Glenrothes? Not only have you voted for the most disreputable, lying, cheating and dangerous party to have taken power in this country, you voted for the most useless, idiotic candidate I’ve ever seen standing in an election — nothing more than lobby-fodder for the New Labour project. After Margaret Curran in Glasgow East that takes some doing.

Fife, Scotland

Of course, the stinking pile of shite that purports to be the “Scottish” press didn’t help by issuing Labour propaganda as “news” on a daily basis with video headers to boot. The Glasgow Herald is probably the worst for this but the Scotsman and the BBC are little better. As for the red-tops in Scotland they just are not interested unless there’s a football angle to the story!

The Labour candidate, Lindsay Roy, spend the whole campaign wittering on about reserved issues that he will NEVER have any influence over and I sincerely hope he lives to regret it — even now his website has a banner declaring “Stop SNP charges & cuts”. FFS the only reason for charges was because the Labour Party brought them in and the SNP/LibDem council had no alternative as the previous Labour council had left things in a desperate state.

I also heard nothing about the Labour councils that have also had to levy charges or the fact that they applied to a tiny minority who can well afford to pay them or that 1000 more of the poorest benefit from free services as a result.

If Mr Roy is the best that Scottish education has to offer then God help us all. Inarticulate, lying, bumbling and by his own admission “not a politician” — why the fuck was he standing for election then?

I feel very sorry for the population of this constituency who have suffered under Labour councils since the Second World War. They fell for the lies, deceit and scaremongering fed them by the scum that pretends to be the party of the working man aided and abetted by the corrupt press and media in Scotland.

Roll on the next General Election. With any luck Labour will be deep in the shite by then as their idiotic, self-interested “policies” finally collapse around them. England will vote Tory in their millions and Scotland will suffer once again…

…UNLESS we take the initiative ourselves and vote for the only party that has the interests of Scotland at heart, the SNP.

I will concede that Alex Salmond should have kept his council before the election. His pronouncements that the election was won probably did appear to be arrogant by some — I’m sure he will learn from this as he is obviously the only competent party leader in the whole Scottish Parliament.

SAOR ALBA