WE'LL DO ANYTHING...WHATEVER IT TAKES

Following on from Jim Murphy's letter (in the last post) saying that Nicola Sturgeon will take away old people's pensions, we now read this:

If you can only win by doing this kind of thing, guys, and you are Labour... yeah, LABOUR, the party of people like Hardie and Maxton, you really have sold out to ...well, I dunno whom you've sold out to. The devil? 

Even Tories would baulk at this crap...well, some of them anyway.

Them there's this:

AN SNP activist had to lock herself in a campaign office for her own safety after being terrorised by a gang of thugs.

The 12-strong group of men were walking behind an Orange Order flute band procession when they stopped to launch a tirade of abuse at a lone female volunteer inside the office in Glasgow and began banging on windows and kicking the door trying to get in.

While attacking the office in Dumbarton Road, the woman was verbally abused with shouts of “f*** your SNP”, “yous are a********” and “why don’t you get to f***”. However, they fled before police arrived.

The office is the campaign headquarters of SNP candidate for Glasgow North West Carol Monaghan who is challenging Labour’s John Robertson for a seat at Westminster in the General Election. [Read more]

Today, according to the press and the BBC, there was a riot in Glasgow. It was probably the smallest riot there has ever been in the history of the world; it involved no violence whatsoever and seemed to consist of some left wing nut case called Sean Clerkin, an ex Labour man with a grudge against Murphy (who knew it).

So Labour VIPs knew about it.
Maybe because they organised it?

Labour apparently blamed Campbell Gunn, an SNP employee, for alerting the activist to the location of Jim's "rally". I'm not sure why they thought Mr Gunn would have known about it. In any case he has denied any knowledge of it and demanded an apology.

The current theory is that it was some person from East Renfrewshire
Labour who was responsible. Who knows?

But, you know, actually, if you are having a rally, wouldn't you want it to be publicised to as many people as possible, so that...erm....people would come? 

Novel for Jim maybe, but it works for Nicola.

Anyway, it has been covered by many different bloggers more competent than I am, including Craig Murray, Derek Bateman and Wings. I only mention it here, for two reasons... 

Firstly, why does the press make such a deal of Murphy's 'riotette', when they make so little fuss about threats to old people's livelihoods, from Murphy or his henchmen, or intimidation from Orange Order thugs, whether in that Wings story, or at campaign rooms, as detailed above?

And secondly, I was wondering if it were possible that it was a stunt organised to achieve the sort of attention that Murphy once enjoyed on the 100 days tour. 

Let's have a second egg situation without an egg? Another cunning plan  from Baldrick?

There's nothing new under the sun, Jim.
You're just not man enough.

Frankly I think the bloke who shouted at Murphy today is an idiot. He played right into Labour's hands. It was exactly what Murphy wanted. Another boring rally with a dozen at most attendees, when he says the same thing over again and no one is listening to his message. Everyone can see that looking at the crowd (or lack thereof) that he gathers. What he can get is BBC and press coverage, for obvious reasons, you know, that the BBC is Labour's press office in Scotland and apart from a couple of notable exceptions the press hate the idea that Scots should have some say in the running of the UK. 

Eddie Izzard and Jim being chased out of town
 by a raging mob of three old people.

The Daily Mail article has just about every single detail of the story WRONG. It's a tissue of lies start to finish. The Tory press is lying for a so-called Labour MP.