Ah bless.
I see it hasn't taken long for it to go to his head.
His Immensity the Fat Minister is now claiming a direct connection to the Almighty.
He's also managed to work himself into a lather over several energy-related issues; remember, he is an expert "energy economist" by background, isn't he?
So first of all, he's offended that the UK Government has decided not to award £1bn of subsidy to a privately-owned Spanish company (that would be Scottish Power, sports fans) to make some ruinously expensive mods to Longannet power station to allow it to bury some of its CO2 emissions under the sea bed.
Which would incidentally make the power produced by that part of the station totally uneconomic, requiring yet more ongoing subsidies from US to allow it to operate.
Is he an idiot or a liar? Oh hang on, it's Salmond, he's both.
(By the way, isn't it crude, tawdry and offensive that he decides to declare his faith in a "creator of the universe" who has favoured us with all this renewable bounty at the moment that he's rowing with the Catholic Church over gay marriage? The man really is a sh1t.)
Back to the "renewables bounty". Remember, he gave us a "vision" and a "pledge" that Scotland would be 100% renewable-powered by 2020.
As previously blogged, for these "visions" to become reality will require the completion of 1000 MW of renewable capacity, each and every year, from now until 2020.
Including this year, 2011.
How are we doing?
According to renewableUK, the grand total completed in Scotland in 2011 so far is...
is...
wait for it...
241.15 MW.
Pathetic.
It seems that the Enormous Shyster's direct connection to the Almighty has not resulted in any connection with the facts.
I look forward to the total failure of his referendum and subsequent humiliating defenestration from office with relish.
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Like you did last time?
Heh.
Good point, well made, mon ami.
But yer maun is a liar.
It's going to come home to roost sooner or later.
Ken Clarke, Willie Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham and of course Churchill - all noted champion slimmers
As Blackadder the Third put it in episode one:
"Fat Tory landlords who get elected when they reach a certain weight."
As for your pal Alan and of course the noted Scottish slimmer of the year Michael Fry (formerly of your ilk), Ian Hamilton sums it up nicely:
http://www.ianhamiltonqc.com/blog/?p=22
"ALAN COCHRANE, you big four-eyed, fungus-faced, Tory mouth-piece.
You railed against devolution and continue to do so. You supported the poll-tax.
Now DAVID CAMERON, the UK’s undigested Tory says you were wrong to oppose them. Even yon nice, big, fat Tory MICHAEL FRY has come over to independence. Alone in your wee muddy ditch you’re left firing your pop-gun in support of people who’ve run away. Now the Goldie oldies are bending their creaking backs to put on their running shoes. You’re the last lone Tory on the range? Hiyoe Cochrane!
Or maybe you just like being the BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE of the Scottish press. Sing us a wee lament, fatface.
Och maybe I’m being too hard on you, big man. I like you well. You’re one of the family, even if you’re the daft one. Every village needs its idiot, and you’ve aye been ours."
For the record, Salmond will one day have a downfall. All political careers end in failiure. Even Churchill's.
"That political phenomenen was well past his best and fading fast"
Denis Healey on reflections on Churchill in 1951 in his autobiography "The Time of my Life"
"By the mid-1950's, we were being led by Churchill who was permanantly half-drunk"
Jimmy Reid in one of his reflections on the demise of the British Empire and the UK along with it.
"Springtime for Rufus in Scotland, unionists are happy and gay" - congratulations to the 'establishment figurine.
"It's going to come home to roost sooner or later." - curious that it hasn't so far isn't it, that could mean one of two things won't it Smee.
So Sm753, will you be joining Murdi in the tory wastelands or polishing up yer operation and getting right behind Ruth to give her a good boost.
Wardog, it does look like "Grannies vote for Lesbians".
That aside, it has struck me about one thing. The difference between the Scottish and English Tories is the issue of ruthlessness (sic). The Scottish Tories are still listening to Forsyth despite him being such a big political loser.
If he was an English Tory, he would have been jettisoned to the wildernness by the English party years ago.
See that Steve Rodan been returned to the Speakers Chair on the Isle of Man. Strangely no unionist candidates running in the Manx general election back in September.
Funny that. Then again Tories need something nearby to store their dirty money in.
"Line in the Sand"
Mair like propoenents of that view when it comes to the Isle of Man, Tories (especially the Scots variety)are hypocrites and liars.
AB:
You were trolleyed on November 2, weren't you?
As for "grannies voting for lesbians", yes they were. Quite openly.
Muttley:
Thanks so much for the crude remarks, I'll try and keep mine a bit more witty.
I see there have been a couple of independent reports showing the utter falsity of Nat claims about both renewables and automatic EU membership. A couple of easy posts there, I think.
I was perfectly sober. I cannot guarantee the soberiety of Ian Hamilton though when he wrote what he wrote and what I quoted from his site as per the link------
The "Fat Face" remark was actually published in the Sunday Herald in Alan Taylor's column. That was how I first heard about it.
The Jimmy Reid quote by the way is from his Herald column "The Empire is Dead" dated 01/08/96.
Oh here we go with the EU. Have to get the Moldova thing out again I suppose along with why did not Spain not veto Baltic state and Slovene membership----- remembering that Estonia does have a bit of fish and is Lutheran.
As Allan Massie said a while back, the precedent will probably be set by what happens to Belgium should it dissolve which is more likely to happen than Scottish independence in the next couple of years. And he said (reluctantly) that the answer will not please UK unionists as it is unlikely that the city of Brussels will suddenly find itself outside the EU---- whoever it passes to - even if it is Flanders that calls it a day for Belgium and not Wallonia.
Could be messy as the Flemish Parliament sits in Brussels even though Brussels has its own Capital Region Parliament and the Flemish Parliament has very little control on the lives on the citizens of the city. As I say messy-----
Query: since apparently the number of EU members cannot increase without the consent of the other members are they going to deal with up to maybe three entities claiming membership with a Belgian split----
Oh where is AM2 when the unionists need him, today we hear that labour have broken ranks and are backing something more than Calma / Scotland Act, leaving the ConDems flapping in the wind with no clear mandate in Scotland for a constitutional change that has no democratic mandate. How did it all go so wrong, so quickly Smee? - You didn't seriously think sending in Goerge Osbourne / George Robertson was going to frighten Scots did you?
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