Meanwhile, over
at "Barristers and Boilermakers Club", the Labour Party’s Iain
Davidson has been throwing his considerable
weight about.
During a private
hearing of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee he threatened to give the
SNP’s Dr Eilidh
Whiteford, MP for Banff
and Buchan, a “doing” if the discussions were leaked to the
media.
For those
unfamiliar with the parlance of Scotland,
what Davidson meant by this remark was that he would
physically assault Dr Whiteford
and give her a beating.
For those
unfamiliar with Iain Davidson,
he has already had to make an apology for calling the SNP neo-fascists during a
parliamentary debate.
For those
unfamiliar with the Labour Party’s tactics when it comes to dealing with Scotland,
this will come as no surprise. Threats and intimidation of the Scottish people
is the hallmark of its approach to the impending referendum on independence.
Its no surprise
that when a Party attempts to bully a country that one of its members should
see it appropriate to bully an individual.
The apologists
for this most boorish behaviour claim that the phrase was taken out of context
and did not refer to a “physical assault”. What kind of assault it we are
supposed consign to it then, remains a mystery. Unless it is something along
the lines of the “doing” that the Labour Party got at the hands of the SNP in
the last Scottish Parliamentary election.
There was no apology,
only an excuse.
Unable to
provide a cogent rationale for remaining in the Union,
the tactics, as with all Unionists, continue to be grounded in fanciful
apocalyptic scenarios which see an independent Scotland
as a Third World Country, rife with religious persecution and a haven for
terrorists. (What! – no cannibalism?)
Basically they
think the people of Scotland
cannot be trusted. And, if they cannot do what they told, they will be
threatened with punishment. Logically then, the next step will be some sort of
punishment.
Whether that
takes the form of the promised and petty fiscal sanctions or indeed a “doing”,
its perhaps time that the people who choose to make their lives in Scotland
and wish control over those lives, called the Unionist bluff.
Who knows, the
ultimate sanction might be getting thrown out of the UK.
Probably by some Westminster
playground bully.
