Today saw the election of Iain Gray as leader of the labour group of MSPs. He started by saying that…
“We don’t need a first minister whose pride is putting people down. Scotland needs a first minister whose passion is lifting people up.”
He then showed why he should never be First Minister by putting down Alex Salmond, going through his background and classing him as elitist. That’s a bit rich considering that quotes from Wikipedia state Salmonds education is…
“Linlithgow Academy [1] and the University of St Andrews, where he graduated with an MA in Economics and History”
While our working class hero Iain was…
“educated at Inverness Royal Academy and the exclusive independent fee paying George Watson’s College before studying physics at the University of Edinburgh”
Whit a joke. Iain has no doubt done some good things in his life such as working for Oxfam and volunteering in Mozambique. He should be feel free to be proud about these, but why not use these things positively rather than throw them in as some holier than thou attack on someone else?
People are not complete fools and not everyone gets their information through the Labour propaganda rags of the daily tabloids. More and more, scare tactics and smear campaigns will not work as ordinary people get a chance to answer back and share information and opinion through the Internet. Some politicians are behind the curve on realising this…
