Sunday 3 December 2017

A Scottish Blog has given Plaid an Election leaflet/

My favourite blog from Scotland is not Wings over Scotland (though it is excellent ) but MUNGUIN'S NEW REPUBLIC  a witty, informative and on sSunday's give us a brief respite from the nitty gritty of political life.

Munguin  recently whilst reporting on the hypocrisy ignorance  of the nature of devolved  powers in Scotland.

 As Munguin writes,
When Mr Corbyn came to Scotland to welcome yet another new incumbent to the leadership of the Scottish Branch of the British Labour Party, both of them talked, frankly, a load of guff about ‘a far away country full of people about whom they apparently knew nothing’ to paraphrase Mr Chamberlain.
The massive clanger, of course, was the demand from Mr Leonard that the Scottish government must take back Scottish Water into public ownership. To do that of course, the Scottish government would first have to sell it off to private enterprise, something that wasn’t done before.
A common theme from Labour is that the Scottish government has done nothing to alleviate the effects of austerity imposed on the poor (but not the rich), by the British Tories [a party of government (in the UK) and opposition (in Scotland) you’d have been excused for thinking that two supposedly left wingers would have been anxious to ridicule, particularly given that they ARE ridiculous].

I’ve always excused Corbyn’s ignorance of Scotland (he didn’t for example, know that there was such a thing as Scots Law), because he is a London MP who has always been just that: a back-bencher mainly concerned with his London constituents (and from what a hear, a damned good one too).
On the other hand, although Mr Leonard is an Englishman, he has been resident in Scotland for some time. He has been a member of the Scottish parliament for a couple of years now and he has just become the leader of  Labour’s Scottish branch. It would be reasonable to expect him to know something of what’s going on here.
Perhaps Mr Corbyn and Mr Leonard might like to take a look at what Scotland has done with its limited powers and compare them with what the Welsh LABOUR government has done with their, albeit more limited, powers.

But for us in Wales Munguin provides us with a comparison  between the SNP government in Scotland and Labour running the Welsh Assembly the latter being in power since the Assembly's beginning.


 

If I was a Plaid strategist I would use this in leaflets for the next Assembly and General Elections.

We need to expose the Labour leadership in its hypocritical call for the SNP to do more against austerity in Scotland ,

Jeremy Corbyn has every right to call for the government in Holyrood to do more and should make a case for what they would do.

But we have nothing but silence from St Jeremy over Labour's running of the Welsh Assembly where even if we take into to account Carwyn Jones does not have the same powers as Nicola Sturgeon, "Welsh Labour have failed those affected by the polices of the Tories and their former Lib Dem bag carriers in London.

Not only that I have yet to see any calls from Labour for Wales ti have parity with Scotland.

Perhaps Mr Corbyn like his pro Brexit stance believes that keeping the people of Wales as  poor West Britons will mean that they continue to blame the Tories and vote for Labour so that one day we  can enter into a London Centric "Socialist New Dawn".

Even if  this could happen I doubt that we will cease to be the poorest part of the UK.

Our solution is not to vote for Unionist no matter haw Left Wing they claim they are, but  to follow Scotland lead in replacing Labour in the Welsh Assembly and laying the ground work for Independence.

 

3 comments:

Tristan Price-Williams said...

Munguin is more than flattered to be quoted in your blog, Glyn.

He thanks you for the compliment.

It seems to us that Labour is adept at carping. A long line of Labour leaders in Edinburgh have made their central policy "SNP BAAAAD", and to a lesser extent Labour in London has criticised the Tories (not to hard though... they seem to be doing Corbyn's bidding on Brexit).

They don't have much in the way of policies themselves, at least not in Scotland, and those they have would probably never be put into practice, if, by some miracle, they managed to gain power.

We had to fight hard for the powers we have. Wales needs these same powers. Indeed with we HAVE to stay in this union, all countries need the same powers, including England.

Better still, and I'm hoping this may happen, Ireland should return to Ireland and Wales and Scotland should be independent European nations.

Thanks again for your kind words. Hope you enjoy today's Soppy Sunday!

Dymuniadau gorau

Anonymous said...

I expect nothing less from the Tory party when it comes to policies that punish the poor and disadvantaged whilst looking after their friends and supporters.

To see Labour in Scotland constantly undermining the SNP's efforts to mitigate the damage being caused by destructive Tory in-fighting over Europe and their policies to cut benefits to the needy is extremely disappointing. As someone who has voted for Labour in the past, I no longer have any respect for the party that in Wales gave us Nye Bevan.

I take a close interest in what happens in Scotland as my son has lived there for over six years and it is clear to me (and to him) that the interests of the Scottish people are better represented by the SNP than by the 'Nasty' party or the 'pretendy' socialist party.

Anonymous said...

I found Mungin through Glyn's blog and it opened the door to other excellent sites such as WoS, Bella Caledonia etc.

Although these sites are Scottish they do an excellent job in debunking the Unionist propaganda that spews from the BBC and the branch representatives of the Tory, Labour and Lib Dem parties in Scotland.

What has been particularly enlightening is the way they've opened my eyes to the blatant bias of the BBC where omission, spin and downright lying are employed to attack those who oppose the establishment and their grip on power. Whether it's been Indyref, Brexit, general election coverage or Catalonia, the BBC have distorted, debased and destroyed that long held belief that they are a bastion of fairness and truth.

So thank you Munguin for helping me on my journey to enlightenment.