Kirsty Wark : an aide-mémoire...

Lest we forget. Let me take you back to thursday the 7th of June 2007. The Tartan Overlord called for an emergency session in Holyrood to read out and answer questions pertaining to a 'memorandum of understanding' that Tony Blair, the then PM, had signed with Col Gaddafi in Libya about an exchange between each countries nationals held in the other country's prison. As we all know, there was only one Libyan national held in a Scottish prison. 

Blair, his spin doctors and lackeys in the British media kicked up an almighty fuss claiming that this was nothing to do with Mr Al Megrahi. The Libyans went on record saying that Megrahi's case was the whole point of the meeting. Gaddafi's son claimed "When Blair came here we signed the agreement. We signed an oil deal at the same time. The commerce and politics and deals were all with the prisoner transfer agreement."


The Unionists in the Scottish Parliament for the one and only time in nearly four years agreed unanimously that Blair had no right to make decisions which directly affected the process of Scots law without consultation with the devolved Parliament. Within hours the London knives were out for Jack McConnell for having the temerity to agree with Salmond.


BBC Newsnight brought out the big guns in its defence of Blair and unleashed Kirsty Wark on an unsuspecting nation.




The question posed was simple, which government was telling the truth the British, Scottish or Libyan? 

 Now thanks to Julian Assange, we know. Libya and Scotland were telling the truth. The discredited Labour Party in England and Scotland were guilty of lying to the electorate, their friends in the media were guilty of bombast, disinformation and promoting the lies of their friends. 

When will Richard Baker, Iain Gray, Tony Blair, Douglas Alexander, David Miliband, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Jim Murphy, David Cairns, Elaine Murray, David Mundell, Russell Brown, Tavish Scott and Annabel Goldie apologise to the Scottish and British electorate?

Are Labour too pished to comprehend?

News that supermarket behemoth Tesco, are minded to think minimum pricing for alcohol is a good idea, brings a problem. Where do the unionist booze loving supporters in the Scottish Parliament go now? Every attempt to debate this issue has led to Labour politicians weeping into their glasses at the loss of the right to get pure mad mental pished on buckie, 'it's a human right ya dobber', seems to be their rebuttal to any attempt at informed discourse.

The sublimely named, Lucy Neville-Rolfe, Tesco's director for corporate affairs, has an interesting tack on the booze and binge culture, she blames the UK government. She says in the absence of government action, poor old Tescocks have to compete on price.

"As a result there is lots of cheap alcohol, so we thought let's ask the government to look at should there be a minimum price for alcohol, or should there be a ban on low-cost selling.

"Could it be justified because it will deal with the problem at the lower end?"

Now colour me stupified, but does that not sound a million miles closer to what the SNP have been saying in Government? Especially when compared to the stupidity of my local Labour politicians Elaine 'tiny tears' Murray and the diminutive Russell Brown, who envisage booze buses on the Whitesands of Dumfries, all set to invade the pile-it-high-sell-it-cheap booze warehouses destined to be found over the border in Carlisle?

The British Medical Association, police throughout the UK, and the Westminster Health Committee back the idea of minimum alcohol pricing. Now that Tesco have jumped into bed with the same approach, where exactly does this leave Gray, Goldie and Scott?

Wiggle your thumbs if you're a mason...

Look at the clever poster our friends in the Labour Party(Scotland) made for their website. One side of the poster has David Cameron with his eyes shut, the crazy mad eyes shut fool that he is. The other side of the poster has Gordon Brown shaking hands with a man wearing a fetching yellow hard hat, this image shows us all that the Gordon has walked in that man's shoes, he does through the medium of winking. The lovable rogue that he is...

It's an interesting handshake, and one I've witnessed in person. It's not as bad as this one. 

 Or this one:

Or even these:

This non-handshake is quite naturally excruciating.



Here's one he did last night in deepest Dumfries last night whilst glad handling the crowd that turned up to hail the messiah as he walked among the throng curing their ails, making the blind see, the lame walk and the politically challenged vote. 

Some fantastic thumb work going on, in that there manoeuvre.

It reminded me of this.

Where the wild things are. Labour in Dumfries take huff, Scotsman back them up.

In lieu of a monkey wearing a red rosette. I feel this Ass says more about Russell Brown and the Labour party than I ever could...

Who would have thought that a comment left on a Caledonian Mercury article would have caused Labour in Dumfries to roar their terrible roars, gnash their terrible teeth and spit their spoilt dummy?

The article in Caledonian Mercury, written by that handsome cove Hamish Macdonell, is about Labour's use of celebrity sell outs supporting their party. You know the type of Labour Party apologist who betrays their hard won celebrity, for a chance to touch the hem of Gordon Brown and Baron Mandelson's robes. Eddie Izzard, is the classic example of one who has no thoughts on Iraq, torture, rendition, poverty, corruption, crime etcetera, but hey, he says Britain isn't broken it's 'brilliant'.


In response to comments on the broken down aspects of Greenock, the home town of Labour supporting thespian Richard Wilson and the place he swapped for London in the 1960's, I responded thus to the previous commentator.


Mark MacLachlan says:

May 4, 2010 at 11:03 am

Alibi, a wee drive through Lochside, Lincluden and Sandside to avoid the traffic this morning revealed some ‘Vote Labour’ posters stuck in rather broken down gardens and dirty windows.
There are people in these places who are content to continue in the same walk-to-the-post-office-cash-the-giro-get-weeks-shopping-at-farmfoods-go-home-watch-Jeremy-Kyle-die existence. It’s all too sad. 

Innocuous enough and a fairly bog standard description of the existence of many people living in the run down estates that pass for social housing in Labour's Britain.

Therefore I was a tad surprised that so close to the bone was my comment that Dumfresian Labour supporters or even perhaps a journalist with a hard on for non Union supporting bloggers, would pitch this comment to The Scotsman  as a faux snide article.


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General Election 2010: SNP blogger on the offensive

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Published Date: 05 May 2010

LABOUR claimed to be "deeply offended" by comments written by SNP blogger Mark MacLachlan about voters in Dumfries.

"There are people in these places who are content to continue in the same walk-to-the-post-office-cash-the-giro-get-week's-shopping-at-Farmfoods-go-home-watch-Jeremy-Kyle-die existence. It's all too sad," he said.

Offended anyone? No?

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It's a sad day when 24 hours before an election that's about to see the Labour vote decimated and the party consigned to an electoral Siberia, that all they can think about is trying to put the boot into a blogger who made a comment on an article that moved into a discussion about the generations of Scots lost to poverty, which they have done nothing about. It's all too sad.

I dare say, it'll end up in my local paper The Dumfries and Galloway SubStandard....