The defeat of the Labour party in Scotland , even after now- demonstrated banana republic levels of vote-rigging and electoral adjustment, has led to typically Labour undemocratic behaviour in imposing Douglas Alexander's sister as the Scottish opposition Labour leader in Scotland's parliament. There has been one of Gordon Brown's favourite opinion 'polls' conducted that purports to show that only around half of Scottish voters want to separate from the union with England and Wales. Ranks of employers in Scotland have been rounded up to issue warning statements about the effects on employment and investment if England and Wales are cut loose. Newspaper articles are being planted objecting to the very language of governance being used by Scotland's Government. The Scottish office in London, far from being wound down as Scotland's Government moves to set up its own civil service and permanent administration, is being beefed up.
The horrified gaze of the United Kingdom Labour executive in power in London has turned on the devolution settlement with Scotland and realised that it is so designed as to provide independence now that the Governmment of Scotland is no longer made up of a supine Labour party Scottish subgroup but, instead, of a successful and popular administration pursuing the interests of Scotland and its people.
The Labour party without Scotland is dead in the water : its leader illegitimately claiming to represent the interests of the English people while sitting in the Westminster parliament at all only because of votes from a Scottish constituency ; its majority sustained by Scottish constituency representatives, already with their own parliament in their own country, whipped into voting on matters wholly outside of the concerns of their own electors and standing out like sore thumbs as they do it, a constant reminder to the electorate of England of the lack of democracy in our own parliament; with the worst of all of them, the Scottish representative who is Speaker of England's Parliament a crawling , Scottish Labour, lickspittle, and a man of notable stupidity being the person whom Labour has thought to use to quieten English dissent to all of this with a Speaker's Conference. England does not need a Scottish Labour Speaker nominated to contain dissent.
Labour's ruling junta in London, led by unelected Labour leader Brown, is trying to provoke the Scottish Government with aggressive claims that oil and gas reserves are always to remain within London control.
But it is not over oil and gas revenues (and more importantly oil and gas reserves and their future development and management), that the steady advance of Scotland's restructuring of its relations with England and Wales is concerned. Once Scotland's Government is in full charge of the powers already available to it, allocation of oil and gas fields and production management is well-governed by contract and treaty, and dispute will be settled in the courts, not by politicians and their parties' interest.
The real and glaring truth is that the Scottish prime minister, First Minister Salmond and the Scottish Government are acting now , properly and effectively, as representatives of the people of Scotland; and the people of England want the same democratic accountability and control over English government for themselves.
Without the Union Labour is finished and exposed as the authoritarian regime it has always been, so that Scotland's advance into its own governance is part and parcel of our own advance into self determination and democratic answerability under an English parliament.
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As a result of your neat little post on Auroras and Potemkins, I have come across your blog which I am going to add to my reads.
You already have a link to my MPs expenses site, which I am shortly going to amalgamate with my main effort at The Huntsman
http://thehuntsman2007.blogspot.com/
We share views about Scotland. I see you used the word Junta: I got told off something rotten by a little Princess called Ben Rogers on CH the other night for using this of Brown and his cronies, as apparently I am being offensive to those who live under a 'real' junta (which is what I thought we had here, but there, so consider yourself suitably spanked by the said Princess.
Thanks again for bringing a wrinkle of a smile to my face today!
A junta is an authoritarian state ruling elite, unelected, whose accession to power may be by the subversion of democratic institutions or by use of force. The removal of a junta usually requires extra parliamentary means - from velvet revolutions, through the intervention of outside forces, to the Potemkin/Aurora solution.
The current Executive of the United Kingdom is a Labour party junta; it was never their intention that the people of Scotland should rip away their political placemen in part of the UK, there was gross interference in the ballot to support their expectations of their client vote.
Scotland leads the way for freeing us all from this ugliest perversion of the long-settled practices of our constitution.
The other weapon is the European Union, for whatever lies the Labour junta tells, the new consolidated constitution of Europe will apply to the UK; if Labour stays in, then we have real means of redress against their abuse of power and process, and if it leaves then Scotland will apply for independent membership and the UK federation will be at an end.
(thank goodness this is my own blog and I can be as cross as I like Huntsman; though sometimes posts are wholly without anger. Recently I have been thinking about Sir Nigel Gresley, and about Silver Link - possibly brought on by the opening of the St Pancras terminus for Euro Star).
Whenever I come across a blog with someone who is very evidently really quite cross, I find myself quite cheered up. As a race we do not do 'cross' often enough. The occasional and very controlled nuclear loss of temper can be quite cathartic and I feel quite respectful in the presence of a genuine red mist moment (I distinguish this from a rant, which is quite a different thing).
The opening of the terminus @ St. P has put us here in East Northants within 3 1/2 hours of Paris, which makes it nearer than, say, Bristol or Brighton. I salivate at the idea.
I used to go across Holme Fen in Huntingdonshire a lot in the late 50s and early 60s and recall having to wait for the level crossing at Holme where one quite often saw A4s going to and from Peterborough: real show stoppers!
You have a most eclectic mix of heroes and I have been wondering who I would select. I fear it would be rather more mundane! RA Butler though? Too associated with appeasement for my taste.
As a very small girl I would be taken grudgingly by older siblings to the twentieth mile bridge between Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City, (it may have an official name); there we would watch the great trains for the North roaring through on that long straight stretch.
R.A. Butler gave us the Education Act that opened the way to a real education and its lifetime of enjoyment for many children. I had not known he was involved in appeasement; is there anything to be said for the thought that Mr Chamberlain knew better than most the condition of the factories and capacity to meet the requirements of modern war and that he bargained for the time needed to get the midlands and the north into production?
The heroes are remarkably stable; I had expected them to evolve and be replaced but I remain faithful. The president of Italy was added for his real statesmanship and sure footedness in the post Berlusconi period when Italy wobbled but then settled firmly for democracy and the rule of law. I might prefer in England a response, or at least some reassurance, from the head of state to the subversion of the spirit of our constitution.
A propos RAB, see my blog today.
Huntsman, I have been reading on this all afternoon after your exposition of the appeasement years. I would add something apart from your account of the Halifax intervention. The entire government and administration must have known what was happening in Germany. Halifax, from his former role in India, must have had also a keen appreciation of the difficulties of making Palestine the receiving state.
Those months between Munich and the declaration of war alone cost many lives of Germans and Austrians and Czechs who were Jewish. It wasn't individuals, or even single departments of state, it seems to have been the entire policy thrust of the government of the day that didn't act . A reading of the official papers sent from Berlin by the officers on the spot there leaves no doubt that what had already happened, was happening, and was threatened, was national German policy.
I must read on for a bit.
Having read many posts on Huntsman I'm feeling you've said it all already. The 16 Ramsey doctors and their paramedical staff instead of your father, 3 colleagues and a secretary and nurse is revelatory.
The general info on this blog will be updated and revised at the weekend. Thank you for the link.
"Without the Union Labour is finished and exposed as the authoritarian regime it has always been, so that Scotland's advance into its own governance is part and parcel of our own advance into self determination and democratic answerability under an English parliament."
The fantastic thing is that Brown , who is the main progenitor of Scottish devolution ,was so intoxicated by the doing of it that he actually apears to have ignored British history and just did not know or understand that Labour is the product of the unitary British state and will disappear with the disapearance of that state . It seems he , and the other Labour Scots , just could not help himself .
Of all parties , the Labour party should have clung to the Union like grim death .
Now realising what they have done - too late .
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