HOW amusing to read the latest shameless remarks from Alister Jack, a professed Brexit man and a Scottish Secretary of State who I personally don’t take seriously any more, especially when reading the desperate nature of his latest political opinion that our FM should not be given a live public broadcast for Covid updates.
Does any Scottish citizen actually take this non-entity seriously any more? What irks me is the fact there is always a willing right-wing Unionist press outlet or the ever faithful BBC Scotland (ironically the subject of his criticism!!) who give him a media outlet to “spout off” his usual disingenuous remarks.
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I think it is good to hear insincere, conniving Tories like him and of course his wee weasel of a Tory cohort, Douglas Ross, regularly resorting to infantile name-calling and cheap rhetoric/innuendo to “get at” the SNP/Scottish Government while saying nothing about their own paymasters/charlatans in the worst British government in living memory – a good indicator that they are losing the fight against Scottish self-determination.
Bernie Japs
Edinburgh
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