SNP speeches in westminster in recent weeks have often tried to connect SNP Politics to important Socialist Politicians of the past to give themselves credibility, most recently Mhiari Black attempted to use Tony Benn's name to give the SNP party's ideals as having some Socialist content. However she failed at the first hurdle by failing to see from the start that what Tony Benn stood for was "open democracy and no borders" where the SNP itself goes out of its way to cause division and to create borders at every turn by driving a wedge in the Scots nation and attacking Labour and Torys constantly while not actually doing anything in the way of improving anything at all for Scotland. The SNP that likes to talk about being Progressive whiel increasingly this seems to mean producing ever more "Progressive "smoke and mirror lies and "Progressively" more SNP policy U turns to give the impression that they are actually producing anything at all.
"Other SNP maiden speeches have made high-faluting references to Rosa Parks, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Keir Hardie, another constant refrain being “we didn’t leave Labour, Labour left us”. Ms Black’s maiden speech, commented group leader Angus Robertson, was “principled and passionate”, but while no one could question the latter adjective, can a brand new 20-year-old MP really be called “principled”?
Giddy on their own brilliance, meanwhile, the SNP operate in an unprincipled way while presenting every U-turn or tactical shift as a point of principle. Fox hunting, for example, was a hitherto unknown point of principle, while on fracking – not to mention a range of other policy areas – the party increasingly faces both ways"
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http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/13464511.The_SNP_moral_high_ground_is_built_on_shifting_sands/?ref=twtrec
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The SNP's dubious Morals have also been getting demonstrated in the early weeks at Westminster
"Invasion of the McManiacs: Boorish, boozy, picking fights... Even Nicola Sturgeon's alarmed by the Commons antics of the SNP's yob MPs "
Two weeks on from the Election, the longest-serving member of the House of Commons, Gerald Kaufman, issued a withering assessment of the behaviour of the unprecedented intake of 56 Scottish Nationalist MPs (up from just six in 2010).
‘I think that their conduct is infantile,’ said Mr Kaufman yesterday. ‘They’re goons, and if they go on like this, instead of using their undoubted mandate from the Scottish people to be serious about issues on behalf of Scotland, they will devalue themselves.
Mr Kaufman is not alone at Westminster in his view of the new SNP members’ boorish and puerile antics: day after day since election night, they have displayed an uncanny ability to make headlines for the wrong reasons
The SNP party’s first week in Westminster was dominated not by talk of the SNP opposing Tory ‘austerity’, but by tales of members carousing in Commons bars and scoffing subsidised junk food in its restaurants. Its new intake of MPs generated further hostile news by taking ‘selfies’ in the Palace of Westminster (in deliberate breach of rules that outlaw photography there), rudely ignoring requests not to clap in the Commons chamber, and brashly evicting the Lib Dems from offices they’d occupied for more than a century.
Their second week in Westminster, which began on Monday with the election of the Commons Speaker, saw Scotland’s new lawmakers mount a bizarre effort to force 83-year-old Labour MP Dennis Skinner to give up his customary front-bench seat in Parliament. (This particular bit of pitiful behaviour was strongly rumoured to be Alex Salmonds idea...why should be be surprised at that though ?)
In a further twist, the official swearing-in of new MPs descended into farce when one left-wing SNP member, Hannah Bardell, was required to take her oath twice after she ‘forgot’ to mention the Queen the first time.
Later, a colleague, Natalie McGarry, a fierce anti-monarchist, used Twitter to disown the vow she had just taken.‘As long as in your heart and your head you believe sovereignty lies with the people, doesn’t matter what comes out your mouth,’ she declared (Wouldn't this statement suggest that some SNP's are simply willing to lie at any time to get whatever they want, are untrustworty and have few morals ?)
On Thursday, someone described as a ‘senior SNP MP’ broke ranks — albeit anonymously — to warn his colleagues that their recent behaviour is giving the party a bad name.
‘Behave yourself and act like adults,’ he told fellow MPs. ‘Don’t go causing unnecessary fights. We are here to represent our constituents. It is serious business.’
The remarks, said to have been issued with the approval of Ms Sturgeon, may on the face of things seem perfectly straightforward.
Yet behind the scenes, they are anything but. For informed observers believe they represent not just an attempt to curb the excesses of some of the party’s fresh intake of MPs, but also a coded criticism of the way Sturgeon’s predecessor as SNP leader, Alex Salmond, is influencing their behaviour in London.
Salmond is understood to approve of a proposal recently floated by ‘senior’ SNP sources in Westminster for Scotland to hold a second independence referendum without the Prime Minister’s permission, should he refuse to sanction one.
Ms Sturgeon is, crucially, vigorously opposed to such a plan. Little wonder, therefore, that recent events have sparked rumours of a growing power struggle between the two politicians
Elsewhere, the social habits of the new MPs, who have been largely billeted at the £200-a-night Park Plaza, (No evidence of the "No Austerty SNP" here then ?) a short stagger over Westminster Bridge, are generating their fair share of unhelpful coverage.
Take the aforementioned Mr MacNeil. On election night, he claims to have attempted to down a drink for every SNP gain, and last week told a reporter: ‘I got as far as 43.’
Tommy Sheppard, a comedy club impresario who won in Edinburgh East, has reported draining an entire bottle of Oban whisky with his agent on election night, before moving on to a second bottle — ‘A special one I got for my birthday’.
‘It wasn’t really a celebration, more an anaesthetic,’ he claims.
What does the sober Ms Sturgeon think of such comments? She has yet to say, but they seem at odds with the ethos of a party which has — in an effort to clamp down on binge drinking — endorsed minimum pricing on alcohol.
In Westminster, the SNP MPs’ celebrations have nonetheless continued in earnest.
‘The new Scottish battalion chooses as its Commons howff [headquarters] the Sports and Social Club, located in a basement near the rubbish bins,’ wrote George Kerevan, new MP for East Lothian, in a diary for the Scotsman newspaper, last week. ‘Inside, this looks and feels like a Glasgow pub.’
According to one Westminster blog, Mhairi Black (who once dubbed the vodka-based Smirnoff Ice ‘drink of the Gods’ on her Twitter feed) was spotted there drinking ‘snakebite’ — an intoxicating drink popular with teens, which consists of half a pint of lager, half a pint of cider and a shot of blackcurrant cordial.
So visible and constant is the contingent of SNP members in the subsidised bar that it was reported last week that members are now nicknaming it the ‘Rabbie Burns"
Read more about the SNP bad behaviour here : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3093537/Invasion-McManiacs-Boorish-Boozy-Picking-fights-Nicola-Sturgeon-s-alarmed-Commons-antics-SNP-s-yob-MPs.html#ixzz3hAhrMUII
Read more about the SNP bad behaviour here : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3093537/Invasion-McManiacs-Boorish-Boozy-Picking-fights-Nicola-Sturgeon-s-alarmed-Commons-antics-SNP-s-yob-MPs.html#ixzz3hAhrMUII
There's plenty of evidence here of the dubious morals of the "Say one thing...do another SNP Party)
