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Students perverted the outcome of the 2014 Independence Referendum

A large number of students emigrated to Scotland for around a 3 month period before the referendum with the intention of campaigning for “Better Together.”

Recording their place of residence in Scotland gained many of them the right to a vote.

The English Labour Students Vice-Chair (Events & Communications) wrote in his blog.

“This summer I spent almost 12 weeks in Scotland campaigning daily with the “Better Together” campaign.

Actively campaigning to keep Scotland a part of the UK I had some great experiences and met some wonderful voters, being asked in for tea and a blether on countless occasions.

A lot of people like myself, came with me to Scotland to volunteer in what was the most historic vote of our generation.

The reason I chose to spend the summer months campaigning in Scotland was simple.

As an active member of the Labour Party my values are that we achieve more together than we achieve alone, that stands true for the nations of the UK as much as for ordinary people. (Labour Students)

This lot believed the Unionist hype and actively worked against the wishes of Scots

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) and the National Union of Students Scotland (NUS Scotland) all fully supported the “Better Together” campaign, to the hilt.

Expecting their significant support would be given  due credence and their voices would be given priority the group wrote a nice letter to Carmichael requesting that, as significant campaigners they be afforded access to himself so that they would be able to assist in the post referendum strategy planning process.

They were sorely disappointed. Their requests were totally ignored.

Politicians alone would be in charge of any and all measures to be put to Westminster.

The letter:

Dear Mr Carmichael – A New Politics, a New Democracy and a New Scotland

Congratulations to yourself and the “Better Together” team on the result of the Referendum campaign.

The debate over the two and a half years has been exciting and has engaged people in unprecedented numbers.

It has also offered a vision of how a more just and equal society might be created provided the Scottish people can work together to achieve those ends.

The result will hopefully act as the catalyst we need for people, communities, and organisations across all sectors – third, public and private – to work together in a new way to create real change in a new Scotland.

SCVO, STUC and NUS Scotland strongly believe that to deliver fundamental change in Scotland we need to significantly change the way we do things.

We want to see a citizen-led process that works to form Scotland’s new constitutional settlement – a new way of doing democracy and making decisions in Scotland, that puts the people first.

This must go beyond the existing model where government consults with communities and involve genuine ownership of the process by the people.

Such a process should, of course, include civil society organisations such as our own which represent those in workplaces, communities and students.

But it also requires a commitment to new ways of engaging citizens and small communities of interest more directly.

As well as shaping Scotland’s new constitutional arrangement, this process must consider other aspects of accountability and community empowerment.

It would also provide the foundation for the building of a successful social partnership model, similar to those which exist in many successful small countries in Europe.

Our organisations, and the millions of people in Scotland that we represent, need to know and trust that the people will not be locked out of what happens following this referendum.

We are therefore writing to you to ask you to endorse a citizen-led process to ensure the people decide the next steps for Scotland.

This citizen-led process, rather than one led by politicians alone, would have two elements:

Consideration of more powers for the parliament and consideration of how we empower our people over the decisions that affect their lives:

The citizen-led process looking at powers would potentially keep to the timeline proposed by Gordon Brown, but crucially, it would take the powers offered by the three main unionist parties in the campaign as a starting point and have a mandate to look beyond them.

The second element of the citizen-led process would look beyond constitutional powers, to how we can empower communities and citizens in the decisions that affect their lives.

This would likely have a longer timetable, perhaps in time for the Scottish Parliament elections in 2016.

The benefits of a citizen-led approach is that we will show that we wish to start as we wish to go on, genuinely changing how we make decisions in Scotland, empowering the people of Scotland over the decisions that affect their lives.

The SCVO, STUC and NUS Scotland hope that you will agree to an initial meeting with us, to agree the basis for the citizen-led process we describe and as the start of a process involving a wider range of civil society organisations.

We all recognize that as well as opportunities, Scotland faces significant challenges in the months and years ahead.

Those challenges will be easier to face if citizens feel genuinely empowered to make a difference.

We hope you will agree and we offer you the support of our organisations and our members to make this happen.

Best Regards.

Martin Sime: Chief Executive, SCVO

Grahame Smith: General Secretary, STUC

Gordon Maloney: President, NUS Scotland

CC:

Lord Smith of Kelvin

Johann Lamont MSP, Leader Scottish Labour Party

Willie Rennie MSP, Leader Scottish Liberal-Democrats

Ruth Davidson MSP, Leader Scottish Conservative Party​

An answer, if  there was a reply, was never publicized but a few days after they got an answer and it was not to their liking. A kick in the teeth by the very organisation they had worked so hard for in the months before.

Press reports (1 October 2014)

“A few short days after the much vaunted “Vow” was expanded on by the Unionist “Better Together” campaign and the three Unionist parties are at each other’s throats over constitutional reform, as the row over “English votes for English laws” threatens to derail the timetable for the devolution of substantial new powers promised after the “No” vote was delivered by campaigners. ”

Labour run Glasgow City Council seems to have a problem with corruption, cronyism, scandal and waste, whereby by a remote and out of touch self serving elite, yes, both Councillors & Officials, together run the city as there own private thiefdom, at the expense of the people of Glasgow.It is a shocking state of affairs, which shows the problem of one party rule. The Labour Party has controlled Glasgow almost uninterrupted, since 1933.
http://www.corruptglasgow2014.com/

It is understood senior Labour figures were told of Purcell’s drink and drug use, but said nothing in public while Mr Purcell’s outside PR team tried to keep a lid on one of the biggest political scandals in years.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/the-fall-of-steven-purcell-1.1011619
http://scottishlaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/cocaine-lawyers-politicians-ex-glasgow.html

What can be done to help restore the public’s faith in Glasgow City Council? The Labour administration in Glasgow seems resolute in its denial that there are question marks over any aspect of the way the council was run under Purcell, rejecting calls for an independent inquiry. But still the questions remain, with every round of Sunday newspapers bringing new issues to light. There is growing concern amongst those calling for an investigation that the longer it is put off, the less confidence residents of Glasgow will have in their council.
http://www.holyrood.com/2010/04/asking-difficult-questions/

The Clyde Gateway: A New Urban Frontier. “From the late 60’s onwards, Glasgow became a jungle into which the media fearlessly ventured to portray the wild animals.” “The Labour Party is presiding over a policy that has effectively abandoned the city to speculators and hustlers.” Sean Damer.
http://www.variant.org.uk/33texts/3_V33gray.html

Purcell, Stefan King, James Mortimer, Brian Dempsey, Willie Haughey The corruption of Glasgow – One party dominance has bred utter corruption and dismally low aspirations unless someone else is paying. This is not news to anyone who has been awake in Glasgow in the last 50 years..
http://aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/steven-purcell-mafia.html
http://newlabour.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/purcell-stefan-king-james-mortimer.html

Ian Gray hides in cafe to escape people protesting against cuts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12998918

Gordon Brown plotter supreme secret Meetings with Lib/Dems to bring Salmond down.
http://www.oilofscotland.org/LibLabPlot.avi

Gordon Brown – Leaves you feeling you are a lesser person.

1. History will record that Gordon Brown’s record in government could be readily likened to a Greek tragedy. As a leader it was obvious early on that his undoubted intelligence persistently hampered his ability to access others.  Even his toughest critics accept that he is an intelligent man. It is a matter of record that Brown was studying History at Edinburgh University at age 16 and that he went on to get his PhD from the same university. Like the fate of talented, driven people before him, he was “promoted” for his brilliance and aptitude. He is an intelligent, ambitious man by all measures. But a better question for a Prime Minister might be “What effect does he have on the intelligence in the people around him?” There, Brown has struggled. Consider a few examples:

a. The Tyrant vs The Liberator. Tom Bower’s biography, Gordon Brown, Prime Minister offers detailed insight into someone described as “psychologically flawed”; a chaotic figure, prone to sudden and terrible rages. “Repeatedly he lost his temper, screaming obscenities at those he damned as dishonorable or incompetent,” writes Bower.

b. Decision-Maker vs. The Debate Maker. Brown has a gravity pull towards making decisions unilaterally or with a small group of inner advisors. Caroline Flint felt so underutilized that when she resigned she described being no more than “window dressing.” She wrote, “You have a two-tier government. Your inner circle and then the remainder of cabinet… In my current role, you advised that I would attend cabinet when Europe was on the agenda. I have only been invited once since October and not to a single political cabinet – not even the one held a few weeks before the European elections…I am not willing to attend cabinet in a peripheral capacity any longer.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/05/caroline-flint-resignation-letter

c. Micromanager vs. The Investor. Bower describes Brown as a control freak as Chancellor, determined to micro-manage not just the economy but the entire sweep of British domestic policy, even contractually binding government departments to do the Treasury’s bidding or else face a cut in their budgets.

d. Core Assumptions. Then came the moment just days ago, in the midst of the General Election where Brown was caught on a microphone calling Gillian Duffy “a bigoted sort of a woman” after just having told her to her face that she had a nice family. His disdain for her opinions revealed an amazing contempt for the views of ordinary people. There was no curiosity in his voice. Just accusation, judgment and blame of his handlers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/28/gordon-brown-bigoted-woman

e. When I think of Brown over the last three years I am reminded of something Bono wrote in Time magazine: “It has been said that after meeting with the great British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, you left feeling he was the smartest person in the world, but after meeting with his rival Benjamin Disraeli, you left thinking you were the smartest person.” By all accounts Gordon Brown falls into the Gladstone category.

f. I have often thought that the job of Prime Minister is now so complicated that it is impossible for a person—however intelligent—to be successful at it. It is no longer just how intelligent they are themselves that matters, but how well they can access the intelligence of the people around them.

http://multipliersbooks.com/prime-minister-gordon-brown-intelligence-diminisher/

Video Clips of Brown in Full Flow

The inside political story of the credit crunch, charting the roller coaster journey of Gordon Brown’s fortunes from the moment the recession began.

Is he fit for high office? It is a puzzle to me how such a flawed personality has survived in politics for so long. thank you for sharing this one and all the great documentaries on your channel.

Gordon Brown and Gillian Duffy, who he was later heard off-camera describing her as a ‘bigoted woman’.

Gordon Brown caught on Sky News microphone describing Labour voter as bigot (a microphone his team requested be attached to his lapel).

The woman that Gordon Brown called a bigot gives her instant reaction to what Gordon Brown called her.

And to think one of the most biting economic downturns was caused by a man who wrapped himself in ‘prudence’

Farage blasts Gordon Brown as he calls for New Global Order

Labour managed to spend the 3G money as well ! And the £35 billion they raided from British Pension Funds and every other stealth tax they invented. 10p in the £ anybody? And if 40p was OK then why is 45p wrong now? Hypocrites! You only get into debt when you spend more than you earn and borrow to make up the difference. Its really very simple. Even before the Bank bail outs we were in the shit with Labour. It now turns out the 2008 / 09 recession was 2% worse than we were told.

British troops have begun their withdrawal from Iraq after over six years of occupation. The war led to a disconnect between the British people and their elected representatives, as well as a backlash against the UK’s Muslim minority. It also led to much death and destruction in Iraq itself.

Scottish Referendum. Gordon Brown has no right to talk for the English. I for one will not let a Scottish MP and the one who ran the UK into the ground make deals to his own people on my behalf. Make note Scots anyone telling you the English will bribe you to stay has no authority. Don,t think you can have your cake and eat it. If you want to stay then great but 60 million English will not pay you to stay whatever Gordon thinks he can say on our behalf. English Nationalism will make a comeback so get ready for it.

Gordon Brown Launches Big Bribe timetable at Loanhead

Jackie Ballie A Consummate Liar Exposed

Labour’s demand for more public cash to operate as an opposition party at Holyrood has been attacked as “rank hypocrisy”.

A wise old Scotsman once said:

“Labour is like the pigeons in George Square…When they’re down they’ll eat out of your hand..but when they’re up they’ll shit on your head!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKdxprjVsnk

So Labour MSP Baillie ploughs on with her condemnation of a proposed SNP cut to Corporation Tax, even as Andrew Kerr twice attempts to point out that Labour cut it the last time they were in power. (Kerr says by 2p, but Gordon Brown in fact cut it twice by a total of 5p and promised additional cuts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRe5WaZWID4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Open Letter to Jackie Baillie Asking her to prove her lies are the truth – No Answer

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2014/05/28/questions-about-faslane/

Jackie “pants on fire” Baillie deputises for Johann Lamont (who was showing-face at Tony Benn’s funeral). 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYrOfrmJAUk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Baron John Reid, man of principle or Just a wee liar, history judges him to be the latter- his legacy to his constituents is, “see you suckers”. I witnessed his speech and noted the bulk of those in attendance were from places other than that which he claimed to represent. Most were not even from Glasgow or the West of Scotland. Talk about rent an audience. This was it in spades.

John Reid, (Sorry Baron Reid, he took the ermin) represented for many a year an area of Glasgow which suffered the worst social deprivation, lowest life expectancy and highest infant mortality in the developed world, not a lot was done in his time in office or since, (under the stewardship of his successor) to improve matters.

Set against these damming facts is that the Labour Party and John Reid knew full well, (for the last 40 year’s) that Scotland had massive oil and gas wealth and that the Scottish people were being conned and lied too for decades.

I wondered at his behaviour and the justification of it then remembered the Labour party creed allows the sacrifice of the electorate for perceived good of the bigger picture of the Labour Party and it’s manifesto.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11094182/Scottish-independence-the-English-are-not-our-enemies-says-ex-Labour-home-secretary-Lord-Reid.html

Margaret Curran Labour Party MP for the East of Glasgow and Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland is a Labour Party animal.

1. Labour Party Doctrine;

a. The Labour Party comes, first, last and always.

b. The Labour Party is infallible. Any thing she does or is done in the party name is explained away as always being for the better good of the people.

c. The Labour Party provides a vehicle allowing officers of the party to manipulate the needs and wishes of the electorate so that they are in harmony with the Party’s wishes and the promotion of the officers of the Party.

d. Local officers of the Party promote the myth that they are in place and trusted implicitly to service and protect the needs and aspirations of the local electorate.

e. Nepotism is a good thing since it ensures continuity of electorate representation.

f. Promotion of religious division is to be encouraged, nurtured and maintained in electorate areas where there might be a significant majority of one religion over another. Popularly called, “Divide & Rule.
2. Denis Healey – Oil & Gas Finds – The McCrone Report

a. Healey admitted that the Labour government cheated the Scottish electorate out of the oil and gas finds reported on in the McCrone Report.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/scottish-independence-blog/2013/may/29/scottish-independence-oil-healey

Click to access mccronereport.pdf

b. Margaret Curran, (at that time) was a senior officer of the Labour Party, (through her duties in the University) and enjoyed regular contact with officers of the party of all levels. It is expected Margaret and her close working colleague Johaan Lamont would have been aware of the existence and content of the McCrone document. If not at the time it was presented then soon after.

c. Margaret and Johaan represent, (still do) areas of Glasgow with the worst social deprivation, lowest life expectancy and highest infant mortality in the developed world and not a lot has or is being done to improve matters. Set against this damming situation is the fact that the Labour Party and both Margaret and Johaan knew full well, (for the last 40 year’s) that Scotland had massive oil and gas wealth and that the Scottish people have been lied to for decades. I wondered at their behavior and the justification of it then remembered the Labour party creed allows the sacrifice of the electorate for perceived good of the bigger picture of the Labour Party and it’s manifesto.

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2013/05/28/being-there/ Full expose of Margaret Curran et.al.

Ian Davidson was born in 1950 in the borders region of Scotland. He migrated north to Strathclyde and was elected to the position of councillor with the Strathclyde Regional Council, where he was employed from 1978 -1992. He gave up his post when he was elected as a Labour MP  and has  been at Westminster from that time, until 2015. As sitting MP it is expected he will contest Glasgow & South West in the May 2015 general election.

My family lived in the Gorbals in 1955. At that time people were poor, badly housed, undernourished, in ill-health and ill educated. Not a lot has changed since. Visitors to Glasgow are  kept well away from  Govan being directed to visiting the impressive George Square,  the recently built BBC Scotland Headquarters and Science Centre buildings et. al.

But visit Govan, (no way) it is a different world far removed from the glitter and gloss of areas that have been upgraded, through the good auspices of the Glasgow City Council.  In Govan the lives of many inhabitants are still blighted by grinding poverty, drug dealing, alcohol abuse, ill health, early death, unemployment and despair. There are other areas of Glasgow in which conditions in Govan are mirrored.  A factor common to all of the aformentioned is that for 50 years voters have loyally given their precious vote to Labour politicians whose only interest is to perpetuate the deprivation so that they would be sure of securing another majority at the next election.

Davidson is Chairman of The Scottish Affairs Select Committee at Westminster. His style of management is dicatorial, strident and overbearing. He tolerates no dispute over any decsions he takes in the name of the committeee he regards as his to control.

Davidson, is probably the most influential of Labour Party policy deciders, “almost anything he say’s goes” where Scottish politics is concerned. He is known to be quite scathing of the Scottish Parliament, in particular the ability of the MSP’s, including Labour elected to it. Scotland would be best advised to remember Davidson’s quote before the referendum, “Once we get our, “No” vote in 2014, we’ll rip so many powers from the Scottish Parliament the neo-Nats might as well meet once a month above a pub, for all they’ll have left to talk about”. So there is a hidden Labour agenda. In the event of a “No” vote, (duly delivered by campaign of fear) the Scottish Parliament, will be first neutered then, in time abandoned.

In the course of the referendum campaign he  was vociferous in his oppositon to any form of independence. On one occasion he demanded that the MOD insert a, “get out” clause into a warship contract, due to be signed off  with BAE to build frigates on the Clyde so that the MOD could remove the contract to Portsmouth in the event of a “Yes” vote. So much for representing his people, the bulk of Glasgows shipbuilding constituents live in Govan.

In Westminster,  Davidson, prominent  anti-independence campaigner repeated his call that once the, “conflict” of the independence campaign is over “all that will be required is mopping up and bayoneting of the wounded.” http://www.glawest.org/ian-davidson-mp-repeats-call-to-bayonet-scottish-independence-supporters/

In March 2007, Davidson purchased from his, Additional Costs Allowance , reclining furniture costing nearly £1,500 and had it delivered to his Glasgow home at the time he was claiming his Commons allowance on his flat in South London. He said the suite was later driven to London at the taxpayers cost. he subsequently claimed and was reimbursed in full for both bills.

Under the Green Book rules, the allowance can only reimburse MPs for “expenses wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred when staying overnight away from their main UK residence … for the purpose of performing their parliamentary duties.”

A note of enquiry from a Commons official was concerned Davidson paid a property search agency to help him find a new flat and references records showing Davidson had already claimed £1,000 of taxpayers’ money with nothing to show for it and was concerned about how long the search, at the taxpayers expense would go on.

Davidson explained he wanted to use the agency because — away from home a lot — no time to house hunt — unfamiliar with English house-hunting. He had not expected this to take so long. The market was difficult — not sure how much longer it would take. He added he was, “not sure about terms of contractwith the agency but that he might have to pay £5k in all. He didn’t remember who he spoke to originally or who had authorized this spend.”  The final charge to the taxpayer for finding Davidson a flat came to £6,000. The fees’ office agreed a proportion of this sum. He then billed the taxpayer for more than £11,000 to move  into the flat.

Expense claims show that Davidson, a member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, arranged for a handyman from Glasgow to renovate his south London flat between 2005-06 and 2007-08 at a cost to the taxpayer of £5500. He then took the handyman, whom he described as a “family friend”,  shooting at two events organized by the National Rifle Association. In one match he was on a Commons’ team against the House of Lords. Davidson said he “could not recall” whether the handyman paid his own costs.

Davidson said permission to employ his “family friend” had been “specifically requested from the fees office and agreed on the basis that it would be cheaper than employing a London firm. He said: “he accompanied me on two occasions to a shooting match with the National Rifle Association. Since a competition had already been arranged to shoot at Bisley, I sought and was given agreement for him to participate as my guest.”

Davidson said he had the furniture delivered to Glasgow “since someone is invariably in and my London house is on a bus lane with double red lines.” He said he had hired a property search company because he had “spent many fruitless hours looking for a suitable property and then decided to seek professional help”. The fees office had agreed it was an “acceptable cost”. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5351148/MPs-expenses-Ian-Davidson-paid-friend-5500-to-renovate-flat-then-took-him-shooting.html

The people of Glasgow (Govan) should reject Davidson and his self serving Labour party colleagues in favour of the SNP who, as entity exist only to serve the people of Scotland. Labour have had enough chances.

To understand the man the Ian Davidson is it is best to view him in action. The videos listed provide just that opportunity.

Labour MP questioned on voting record at Bedroom tax demo

Ian Davidson obsessively repeats his mantras of ‘separatist’ and ‘separation’ – a substitute for argument.

Talking nonsense to the MOD about nuclear weapons

Fijians serving in Scottish Regiments should be easier to spot

Not a happy bunny: Ed Miliband to curtail union power

Shipbuilding and warships

Yew Choob Presents-Ian Davidson.Lyrics by Ninjapenguin

Resident joker, invoking laughter and sneers at draconian cuts planned for Scotland

About article 346 Orders for warships to the Clyde

Monitoring an Anti-Bedroom Tax Demo

Scottish shipbuilding and its shameless politicization

Malcolm Tucker deals with Ian Davidson MP

Caught on Cam, “Stupid Bastard”

Claims Faslane supports 19000 jobs

Disrupts PM Question Time

Ian Davidson MP – Innovative union responses to the cuts

The nuclear issue Faslane and independence-and safe havens.

Your state pension is safe upon Independence

Independence will not affect your state pension

How will saving Clyde yards affect the referendum?

‘Experts’ talk rubbish on referendum questions to Commons committee

What European elites learn: Don’t ask the people!

Are you hiding concessions already made from us? Panic in Labour ranks!

Servicemen and women – Impact of Referendum

Will rUK armed forces still recruit Scots after Scotland’s independence?

Scottish service personnel – pensions and medical records

Wind-up – How will UK government departments communicate with Scottish public?

UK Referendum Rules – how will they apply?

What do you hope to agree? The Labour panic sets in .

The Memorandum of Understanding – Morally and politically binding – but legally?

Section 30 Order – What happens if parties don’t agree?

Requests for assurances that UK Parliament can control the process

Macho posturing and sarcasm by Davidson

The franchise for 16-17 year – old’s and Sect 30

Donation rules – donors from outside of UK. Monaco and Bahamas?

Will Scottish Government seeks to abuse/exploit Commonwealth Games?

Davidson fantasizes that UK can control 2014 date.

Defence in a Post-Independent Scotland

Ian Davidson MP talks nonsense to the MOD about nuclear weapons

Labour MP claims Bannockburn is a celebration of the mass murder of the English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4q-BVJ0Ve8 bannockburn

Ian Davidson accuses Isabel Fraser and BBC of pro-SNP bias on Newsnight Scotland

Ian Davidson and Jamie Hepburn on Trident, NATO and defence aspects of independence

Ian Davidson & his team of experts over complicating matters to the point that they seem incompetent.

Ian Davidson accuses Isabel Fraser and BBC of pro-SNP bias on Newsnight Scotland

11 videos featuring Ian Davidson

16 Videos Featuring Ian Davidson