How the Tories are fixing the Scottish Elections
Any political observer might be thinking it is curious timing for Alex Salmond, one-time leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), to be causing a fuss that might derail his lifetime political ambition. Here’s my take on it.
A landslide win for the SNP in the upcoming Scottish Parliamentary elections on 6 May would be a big problem for the UK Government. Coming out of the bungled pandemic (which their policies have made worse) and entering into the most damaging part of a chaotic Brexit (which their lies helped enable), the inner circle of hard-right Brexiteers that effectively rule the UK cannot afford to suddently face a) a hugely distracting constitutional mess from a (likely successful) second independence referendum, or b) deal with the economic fallout when that independence wipes billions more off the UK plc balance sheet. A lot of Tory donors would lose a lot of money, and they would lose their grip on power. This is the real motivation. So how are they dealing with it?
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We get an insight by their attempts to cover their tracks. The Downing Street “Union Unit” has possibly been scrapped, which is code for “it is still there but we want you to think it isn’t so there is no scrutiny of it”. The unit was led by one of Dominic Cummings’ “proteges” and included efforts by Michael Gove, one of the dirtiest liars in UK political history. The big question is: how did they pull off the coup of getting the SNP to rip itself to shreds before the election? The answer is probably money, and nothing more sophisticated than that.
During the UK’s EU referendum, big donors from ultra-conservative fundamentalist Christian organisations and billionaire tax-dodgers funnelled money through foundations and shell companies into various official and unofficial campaigns. These are the same organisations that have funded and flattered the Tory Brexiteer inner circle (check out 55 Tufton Street organisations in the registers of MPs’ interests). They bought political support from the corrupt DUP by giving them a big lump of cash, part of which they spent on pro-Brexit advertising in London. With the peace process in Northern Ireland such a delicate thing, no reasonable politician wants to stir up hornet’s nest by calling Arlene “Dirty Fuel” Foster out, so she becomes a sort of safe shell company for funnelling money.
You need corruptible people to make corruption work. I am sure Alex Salmond was a pretty honest guy, but my bet is that he was looking at a pretty bleak future with nothing but disgrace ahead of him. He is perfect grooming material for the Panama Papers Pack who have bought the Tories: populist politician, mainly failed, being upstaged by a successful woman, and facing sexual assault allegations. “So Alex, we can offer you a second bite at the cherry, and a big wad of dosh. All you have to do for us is this one tiny, wee thing…” And so Alex is up there trying to implode the SNP. Not for justice or truth, but for money.
Whilst this is all merely speculative allegation, my bet is that Alex Salmond has received a promise of money from a thinktank with opaque funding from the DUP, under the direction of the Tory inner circle, and all funded by dodgy US organisations like the Heritage Foundation, Koch Foundation et al.
