I Knew It. I Told You So.
The SNP posture and pretend to be "civic nationalists", blind to race and origin, and also to be business-friendly centrists.
All this shown to be a lie by the Fat Minister's recent explanation of his decision to donate bottled water to Northern Ireland - something which should have been good-hearted and charitable, but which is now shown to be driven by base, repellent motives and a desire for political grandstanding.
From his interview in the Weegie:
“There is no country on earth that we have more family connections with than Northern Ireland,” said Salmond. “They are the blood of our blood, bone of our bone. "
Right, so all of your crap about "civic nationalism" is just that, is it? You're only interested in helping people if they have the same "blood and bone" as "us".
Can I introduce you to Herr von Bismarck?
“These are things we can do because Scottish Water is a public company,” he added. “I can make the decision to send water anywhere and at any time to help our neighbours. A private company would ask: what are we contracted to do? A public company asks what the right thing to do is."
Translation: because Scottish Water is state-owned, I can interfere with its commercial decisions and make it do things which are uneconomic, against the interests of the taxpayers who own it but which allow me to make grandstanding political points. If it were privatised, I couldn't do that.
As I have known and said all along, Salmond is a lying, hypocritical, principle-free shyster who is dangerous to the nation and needs to be ejected from office as soon as possible.
I don't hate him and his lackeys; I merely despise them!
A few days ago I asked in the "Hootsmon" comments pages whether the Nats would have been so keen to send free bottled water to, say, Northumbrian Water plc.
I guess we now know the answer, don't we?
11 comments:
Comparing apples with orange blossom Smee?
mThis is so fake and innuendo driven, one would ponder the sanity and indeed desperation of the individual who has seen fit to release this garbage.
Unless it is for reasons of providing mirth, it seems to be the work of a really deluded person.
I think most unionists are deluded!
"Comparing apples with orange blossom Smee?"
Absolutely CTL.
I quite like and respect Bismarck.
Erm. Why not give the full quote?
“There is no country on earth that we have more family connections with than Northern Ireland,” said Salmond. “They are the blood of our blood, bone of our bone. I would have done it for anybody in that position. The feasibility of delivering water in that quantity across longer distances is much more difficult, but there is no problem getting it to NI.”
How daft are you to link to the quote that you have used in a partial way to illustrate your accusation when the full quote proves just the opposite?
Must try harder!
Hmmm, is this the ethno-nationalist party that had a Scottish-Italian government minister, the first Asian MSP (now sadly dead) and (a now resigned) Scottish-Ukranian MSP?
And of course allowed the continuance in office of a Lord Advocate that is married to a Scottish-Italian?
Irish nationalism is/was more "ethno" despite the leader of the Easter Rising Patrick Pierce/Padraig Pearce being half-English, his successor Charlie Burgess/Cathal Brugha as "President" being half-English and his boss and successor being half-Spanish - you know his name.
To name some examples-----
As for the Iron Chancellor, for all his blood and iron talk, he did not try and annexe most of Switzerland and of course chucked the Habsburg state out.
(Get the BBC's "Fall of Eagles" - he is portrayed in excellent style by Curd Jurgens.)
“There is no country on earth that we have more family connections with than Northern Ireland,” said Salmond. “They are the blood of our blood, bone of our bone. I would have done it for anybody in that position. The feasibility of delivering water in that quantity across longer distances is much more difficult, but there is no problem getting it to NI.”
Dear oh dear, once again your pitiful research is your achilles heel. How you managed to graduate from Cambridge I'll never know.
You did graduate didn't you?
Is this technically now an 'attack blog'
Did you check with conservative central office before publishing this material?
You are completely paranoid Smee.
Salmond makes a grandstanding statement (which he must do in his sleep) & you conclude that the SNP are not blind to race & origin.
Erm how could they be anything else when there is no Scottish race & Scots come from many different origins, either in the past, or recently.
Scottish nationalism is by definition civic nationalism because Scots do not have a singular collective identity such as race, religion, language, culture etc which could support a right wing nationalist movement based on one of more of these features.
So carry on banging the paranoid drum but I am afraid we are seeing what is inside your head rather than any revelations about the nature of the SNP.
Your approach is quite aggressive, but I'm not sure there is any cause for surprise. Frankly I'm not sure there *is* a type of nationalism that advocates separatism that isn't cultural/ethnic rather than civic. If Salmond genuinely didn't care about cultural/ethnic distinctions he wouldn't be a nationalist, certainly not a 'Scottish' nationalist.
If you look at France, the progenitor of the modern conception of 'civic' nationalism, it was an arch-centralising force that tried to eradicate regional separatists and argues that even France's remaining overseas territories are part of cosmopolitan, metropolitan France. If Salmond were purely a civic nationalist, he'd be pro-Union and anti-Gallic.
Reminiscent perhaps of this? You'll find it on the Cannongate Wall...
This is my country,
The land that begat me.
These windy spaces
Are surely my own.
And those who toil here
In the sweat of their faces
Are flesh of my flesh,
And bone of my bone.
Sir Alexander Gray (1882-1968) "Scotland"
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