The Choice Is Yours

What do the following events have in common?

Event 1 – Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, questions people’s intelligence when he says, "It is not as straight forward as people suggest. They sleep soundly in their beds at night because we have nuclear weapons."

Event 2 – Margaret Becket, Foreign Secretary, saying that it is a, "complete nonsense," in response to the internationally respected Hans Blix’s comments that other than the removal of Saddam, everything else in Iraq has been a disaster.

Event 3 – Tony Blair’s comments after Sir George Mathewson, former chairman of RBS, came out in support of independence. Blair said that Mathewson’s comments were, "self indulgent and absurd."

Event 4 – Gordon Brown trying to fool everyone with his 2p cut in the basic rate of income tax, yet because he scrapped the 10p lowest rate, there is effectively no difference.

What have all these events got in common? Yes that is right it is Labour’s latest attempt at pulling the wool over our eyes and completely losing its grip on reality.

For a start, the RBS is the fifth largest bank in the world. I think that a former chairman of such a bank would be pretty well qualified to talk on the financial merits of independence, yet Blair disregarded them out of hand.

Similarly, Hans Blix, the former Chief Weapons Inspector, has more than enough experience to know what he is talking about when it comes to international affairs, especially Iraq. Yet Margaret Beckett seems to think that hundreds of people getting killed each week is not a disaster.

Then we have Des Browne and Gordon Brown who have both in their own inimitable way tried to show that they are a cut above us mere mortals. Browne trying to suggest that Joe Public does not understand the intricacies of nuclear weapons whilst Brown tries to pass off a tax rise as a tax cut.

So what has this got to do with Scotland? Well for a start, the above mentioned Labour politicians are amongst the most powerful people in British politics, controlling the items that are not devolved to Scotland.

They are also the people pulling the strings of that political puppet, Jack McConnell, our very own First Minister.

Why do we still want to be represented by these political megalomaniacs?
Scotland has a choice in six weeks.

Make it count.