There's simply been too much to take in since Friday. Trying to keep up with Twitter, Facebook and all the anguished fawning and hyperbole in the meanstream media has left me more confuddled than normal. However, one appearance on Newsnicht managed to pull it all together for me in a moment of blinding lucidity. It dawns on me that for all the Tartan Overlords charisma and ability, his positive message for Scotland has been reinforced by one man. One man who has done more for the SNP than any private donor, friendly columnist, movie star or the combined talents of the much lauded front bench. One man with access to the ears that-be in Westminster, one man with columns in the establishment media, one man who was sent North in 2007 to smack Jack McConnell around and remind him that he was only a regional councillor, with inflated ideas above his own station. That man, who has done so much for the path to Independence, whose actions and comments have led to a majority SNP government is none other than our finest ever double agent. Dear readers I present to you the man who set Scotland on the path to normality.
I suggest a column be erected in Holyrood park to this mans remarkable achievements. His crusade of negativity, of Fear over Hope has led Scotland from the darkness of London dominance to a bright new future. His last cunning ploy to suggest that the London Government could stop the people of Scotland from determining our own fate, was the cherry on the cake. I suggest when he returns home, we have a parade along Princes Street on an open top tram where the adoring masses can laud him with rose petals and confetti made from shredded copies of the Scottish press.
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I think that Thursday's results show that even a sustained campaign of relentless negativity in the media over a four year period is ineffective in the face of an increasingly sophisticated electorate.
There are many in the media who now have oodles of egg all over their faces, as they have been caught on the back foot - they like to think they are opinion shapers but they have been shown to be sadly wanting.
We now have a completely new political landscape - one where we have a massive endorsement of the SNP government, but not as yet an indication that independence will be the consequence of that.
Will the Scottish media be able to cope with this new landscape? Some of them will, my hope is that the media commentators who just want to stamp their view on things will wither on the vine, as readers should expect commentary on what has really happened, not what writers wish had happened.
John McTernan in particular has made a massive fool of himself as he was so out of touch with what was happening it was comic.
I have never felt more repulsion with a person/commentator, than I do for McTernan. He oozes odiousness from every pore compounded by rabid reckless anti-Scottish bile.
Quo vadis for him? Doon the cludgie - I would hope!
Your are so right to finger him as a main contributor to the collapse of Labour in Scotland.
The thought of anyone fingering him fare brings on the boak...
He's ghastly. His analysis for the defeat was that the Labour campaign had not been been nearly negative enough and not for long enough! He's a creepy horrible wee man who has moved in the dark shadows of Nu Labour in the company of the likes of Damien McBride. He should creep back under the floorboards and stay there.
He seems to have been relegated to writing on the outcome of the AV vote in today's SoS. Pity, as the more he writes about Scottish Politics the more people he alienates.
Hapnin Mark,Aye,sat mouth agape watching newsnicht.We should surely book this man on a speaking tour of Scotland?He has potential.
Incidentally,i saw McTernan in a cafe once,trying to lick ketchup off his elbow.most amusing.
S'up Mark, take it he'd already finished the window?
He was on the telly at about the same time as Margaret Curran. I'd heard of them both and knew of their reputation but hadn't heard either of them speak.
Basically, I think that if they'd actually been in the same studio and not as they were linked by video, a hellmouth would have opened up into which we would all have been sucked.
Curran, McTernan & Balls. An axis of evil and negativity, I fear for our plane of existence should they ever be allowed to join forces effectively.
Aye Labour handed the whole thing on a plate did they not?
That's Gray, Scott and now Goldie all gone and God now considering his position in the Scottish Christian Party.
The more I read about McTernan, the more I begin to think he's a political Nazi in some quite profound ways.
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