Guest Voice: A View From The Bottom Of Scotland

By Dougie Bain,

Well, as I suspected, last Saturday�s TUC organised March against Government cuts has been totally eclipsed by the trouble caused by the Anarchists. UKUncut had organised the peaceful occupation of Fortnum and Masons, a store selling over priced food  for the inbred rich, which according to shoppers was peaceful until police decided they were all �Anarchists� too. Plod (police) then resorted to the usual indiscriminate baton blows and using riot shields as weapons. All seen on TV but glossed over to go after these �Anarchists� and as a result the Met police on the BBC wanting more �stop and search� powers.

I guess this suits the authorities as they can ignore the Inquiry into the G20 death of Ian Tomlinson which was caused by a riot cop shoving him over and instigating a heart attack. Said cop had a track record of this type of behaviour but no charges have ever been brought against him. The BBC as ever tries to ignore this and also as ever the press never question why Met Police wear balaclavas under riot helmets and all conveniently forget to wear their numbers.

All this also helps Nick Clegg Deputy PM of the ConDem �Coup d��t� to get off with yet another howler. This time the idiot, who as like most of his type has never worked an honest day in his life, did not know what was in the ConDem Budget and launched a tirade at Ed Balls The Shadow Chancellor. He accused him of �distorting the truth� until someone pointed out that the ConDems budget had in actual fact reduced pensioners Winter fuel Allowance by �50. Poor little Nicky floundering, again!  The man should come clean and join the Tories, no doubt Vince Cable his other ConDem co conspirator will, after all Vince has been a member of The Labour Party, The LibDems, ConDems so Tory should be his next logical step on his journey of discovery to the far right. No doubt both will be rewarded with a big Platinum pension and being booted upstairs to the unelected House of Lords for services to A) Their Bank Accounts B) Lying and C) being the face of the most amoral, power grabbing, reneging to the Electorate, lying political Party ever seen, I�ve seen some �ne�er do wells� in my time but this party don�t just scrape the bottom of the barrel, they are underneath it!

While this goes on the Scottish Government elections are coming up in May. Yet again more woes for floundering Nicky, seems Hugh O�Donnell a LibDem MSP has decided to quit and stand as an Independent, saying �I�ll take my chances with the electorate� and citing the ConDem alliance as the reason. I quote �It is a party I no longer want to be part of and neither should other principled Liberals,� he declared as he resigned his membership, citing �control freakery� at Holyrood and the �betrayal� of going into coalition with the Tories. He went on �The greatest betrayal of all, of course, is the alliance formed in London between the LibDems and the Tories,� he said. �Since that fateful day, I have watched helplessly from the sidelines as this Government at Westminster has attacked every vulnerable group in Scotland, from carers to disabled students to migrants, with some of the most draconian policies I have ever seen in the name of cuts�.

Thinking about it, I have noticed that my own local MP �the right dishonourable� Michael Moore ConDem, has been conspicuous by his absence since the May 2010 2Coup d��t�. No doubt his elevation to the heights of �Secretary of State for Scotland�, a non job I may add, due to devolved Government in Scotland, has caused his enforced absence from his constituency to his large, tax payer funded flat and to �serial troughing� in Edinburgh. So many more high class restaurants in Edinburgh compared to the Scottish Borders and one needs to spend ones expenses and 108% rise in pay since being appointed somewhere. No doubt there will also be an �oooh scary� terrorist threat element chucked in for good measure.

Surely  little Nicky will have his �Bumper book of Political excuses� at the ready when hopefully the Electorate of Scotland boot the LibDems and Tories out of power?  Unfortunately for the little toad this will not be a �by Election fluke� as he said after his parties disastrous showing in the recent Barnsley vote. His party going from a close second at the last General Election to sixth, being beaten to second place by UKIP, an Independent and nearly being beaten by the odious BNP, -oh, and they lost their deposit.

Ah well I am sure he will find solace in another bottle of �Bollie�, tax free of  course and on expenses. No doubt his buddy George Osborne �my daddies a millionaire�, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and never worked an honest day in his privileged life, will calm little Nicky�s fears about the cost of the Bollinger, reassuring him he will cut �some disabled  oiks benefit and put 3p on a litre of the proles petrol to pay for it, chin chin�  This �man� has dug a pit for himself and his Party that they cannot get out of. To little Nicky my advice is simple �cross the floor of the House with your rancid Party and let the Tories try and run a minority Government� Show some balls and try and salvage something of your disgraced and disgusting self

Today's guest voice is Dougie Bain, a lifelong political activist and union member who retired to the borders of Scotland with his wife and guitar. He and I have known each other for a loooong time and since he's now blogging as The Beast Of Ettrick, where he'll be writing about Scottish and UK politics as well as whatever foreign idiocy makes him shout at the TV, I thought I'd introduce him to Newshoggers readers. - regards, Steve Hynd.