Anglo Scot Traitors and hobnobbing at Davos

Time to end this moribund union

This is in response to another verbose Ian Murray column in the Edinburgh Evening News and was published on 20 January, albeit without the following lines:

A photo of the two Anglo Scots bowing their heads to their colonial masters screams volumes about their treachery. 

Murray and Shanks are willing accomplices in the continued political and economic domination of Scotland by England. They warm their backsides on the green benches while whispering weasel words to their constituents that English LINO (Labour in Name Only) will look after Scottish interests. 

Murray’s favourite pastime is to run down Scotland and pretend that he and his new partner in treachery, Michael Shanks, will go to bat for the Scottish People. But their complicity in keeping Scotland shackled to the failing UK was laid bare this week when they voted down Neale Hanvey’s bill to give Scots the right to determine their own future. Let’s finally call time on this moribund union.

Ian Murray prefers to talk down Scottish education rather than highlight his and Michael Shanks’ vote in the English parliament against their own country’s having the right to self-determination. A photo of the two Anglo Scots bowing their heads to their colonial masters screams volumes about their treachery. 

Murray and Shanks are willing accomplices in the continued political and economic domination of Scotland by England. They warm their backsides on the green benches while whispering weasel words to their constituents that English LINO (Labour in Name Only) will look after Scottish interests. 

Meanwhile, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is living it up at Davos, guzzling champagne with billionaires and bankers like Silicon Valley’s Sriram Krishnan and JP Morgan Chase, no doubt promising these disaster capitalist vultures open access to what’s left of Scotland’s land and resources. She pontificates that “the lifeblood of economic growth is private sector investment,” while dismissing the public sector as a drain and denying it critical investment. 

In reality, it’s global financial capitalism that’s sucking the lifeblood from the economy. There’s no public service left to flog but the NHS which the Tories have nearly bled dry, readying it for private companies to swoop in and put it out of its misery. Wes Streeting can’t wait since his corporate donors will expect quick payback. 

A question for Murray and Shanks. With Reeves’ ironclad ‘fiscal rules’, code for austerity, where will they get all this shiny new money for Scotland’s public services that they love to deride? Answers on the back of a £1.25 (and rising) private postage stamp, please.