Letters / As bad as each other
After reading Douglas’s letter “Impossible not to go” (SN 10/9/13) and examining Douglas’s methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to him than any talent for abstract or positive thinking.
His thoughts on the old and infirm who die of hypothermia; we have the SNP to thank for this due to over inflated electric bills because of the subsidies paid to power companies developing inefficient wind farms all over Scotland.
Douglas claims Salmond’s green energy policy is good for Shetland, and yet he opposes the Viking wind farm – this must be some new form of thinking out of the box.
As renewable’s need to double to reach Salmond’s targets, subsidies and yet bigger electricity bills will be the norm for a long time to come. Hence more old and infirm brought down with hypothermia; all thanks to the SNP, Douglas.
He thinks about nuclear weapons just 30 miles outside Glasgow, but not a thought about a nuclear power station 30 miles outside Edinburgh. I have never heard of a NATO nuclear base going into meltdown but what about Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Yes Douglas, I know Faslane would be a target in a war but so would Glasgow, Edinburgh and Torness, so think again.
Faslane has worked well as part of a deterrent against another world war, and it has provided jobs for up to 10,000 workers. I am sure those workers will be pleased that Douglas’s thoughts will be with them when they lose their livelihood; aye some comfort.
He also thinks about the low life expectancy of people in Glasgow, “his home town”.
Two solutions to this, either they could do what he did and get out, or the SNP could plough money into these areas instead of producing budgets for independence and investing in renewable’s at the expense of these folk.
Another £200 million put aside in this budget for independence to help meet renewable targets.
Then Douglas goes on to think about those nasty MPs in Westminster who are rude and arrogant, who eat subsidised food, while folk in Douglas’s country use food banks.
He, as a staunch YESNP member, should watch First Minister’s Questions to see rude and arrogant.
He then coyly omits to tell us that Scottish taxpayers subsidise the Holyrood restaurant to the tune of £80,000 a year to keep prices down for MSPs and their guests. Also, before their fine dining, they can enjoy a Mojito, Cosmopolitan, Screwdriver or Irish Dream all subsidised at the Parliament’s restaurant.
He then insinuates that Westminster are war mongers; Douglas the biggest war monger was Tony Blair, who with the help of 60 Scottish MPs, 40 of them Labour and a portion of that 40 from your home town, went to war on two fronts.
Douglas then concludes with some well-used YESNP rhetoric, and his epilogue: “Independence is not about him (Douglas); it is not about the SNP, nor Alex Salmond, Labour, The Tories, or the Lib Dems, it is about us the 5.3 million others”.
Douglas are you not a part of that 5.3 million? Are the YESNP, Labour, Tories and Lib Dems not part of that same 5.3 million?
If not why have you given us the benefit of your thoughts? Why has the SNP just given us a budget for independence? Why do the other three parties come together to say No to independence?
The Scottish National Party established its commitment to hold an independence referendum when it published its election manifesto for the 2011 election, this makes independence all about the SNP.
Douglas and others have gone down the road of painting Westminster in a bad light and saying that independence is not about the SNP. Their reasoning for this is that no one really likes what comes out of Westminster so they use it as a decoy to the fact that the SNP want to take us down the road to independence without a clue of what it will mean for the every day person in Scotland.
They also hide the real truth, which is when you compare Westminster to Holyrood there is not a blind bit of difference.
Gordon Harmer
Brae.
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