Labour “sinking low” 11/8/14
Sir,
Quite astonishingly Labour are yet again complaining that our island’s MP didn’t
stop Labour from trying to close the Hebrides Range. However, despite trying, Labour
were stopped from closing the Hebrides Range through a combination of a cross-
Labour, while losing politically to the SNP, are clearly going down the line of resorting to silly and vindictive personal attacks. A type of politics that has been rejected in the islands and elsewhere many times.
It seems that Labour are still maintaining that the jobs at the Hebrides Range were saved by them despite their own party trying to close the range.
The Scottish defence budget would be in surplus given that Scotland presently contributes
£3.5 billion to the UK defence budget and only £2.1 billion is spent in Scotland,
which means that the Hebrides Range is very safe, in fact, safer post-
Unfortunately, it has not always been possible to stop Labour from achieving their sometimes dubious objectives, unlike their futile attempt to close the Hebrides Range. Labour tried and unfortunately succeeded in starting a war in Iraq on the back of a pack of lies about WMD’s and in some cases using a solution to the unconnected Palestinian questions as a grotesque excuse for war.
Today, we see the explosive fallout of the fuse Labour helped light. Iraq is a failing state and the Palestinians are being mercilessly bombed in their own homes, schools and hospitals.
Earlier on in the year we witnessed a vomit inducing spectacle of a former failed Labour chancellor being given a standing ovation at the Scottish Tory party conference. I could not actually believe what I was witnessing but it did happen.
To think that the once great Labour party, the party of the people, has sunk this low and is now practically indistinguishable from the Tories is very sad indeed and Keir Hardie, Aneurin Bevan and their likes must surely be turning in their graves.
John J MacMillan
352 South Boisdale
South Uist
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