Beware Greeks bearing gifts and the Labour Party bearing promises.

Can’t wait for this petition to get delivered.

Or why you shouldn’t vote Labour in 2015, 2016 or until the seventh generation.

Or why Labour are a treacherous pit of snakes.

Labour are no longer the party of the working class, this is clearly shown by their policies and duplicities in the last few years so here’s a quick run down of the most recent ones.

1. Gordon Brown flat out lied to the Scottish people about having concrete powers that had secretly been getting sorted by the three parties in the closing weeks of the referendum. He gambled that people were totally ignorant of how lengthy a process to get more powers would be or how improbable his promises were even if there could have been a secret agreement between the parties. He hoped that peoples preference to avoid pperceivedrisk was larger than their distrust of politicians and he was right.

2. Labour knowingly got involved in an illegal war in Iraq committing or abetting untold war crimes in the name of profit and oil.

3. Labour lied about the safety of the Scottish NHS whilst its own supporters in England were marching to London to save it.

4. Labour have failed to improve poverty rates in its heartland areas, a cynic might suggest that impoverished people are more likely to vote Labour.

5. Labour are undemocratic – members get multiple votes on issues depending on how many trade unions etc they are members of – if i remember correctly Johann Lamont had 7 votes to vote for herself as Scottish Labour leader.

6. “Scottish” Labour is a misnomer they have no autonomy from British Labour and ultimately the Scottish Labour leader is just a subordinate of the Labour leader in Westminster they have no special Scottish interests.

7. Labour runs as an oligarchy, just look at Anas Sarwar and his dad. They care more about retaining power than forwarding any political policy or looking after their constituents.

8. Case in point, it took 6 months for Labour to sign the SNP pledge to not evict tenants in their council houses for Bedroom Tax arrears. In the meantime they made full use of those powers to do just that.

9. Labour do no respect democracy Labour councils were at the forefront of punishing Scotland for its political re-engagement, illegally hunting people for historic Poll Tax debt in the aftermath of the referendum.

10. It all boils down to this, Labour ARE the Tory party, every policy they have is just a little to the left or right of the Tory policy depending on which way they think middle England leans. They don’t propose saving the NHS, They propose privitising it slower. 

This is how little they think of you.

They don’t propose fixing the welfare system to save lives, they propose being even tougher than the Conservatives. They will not fix anything, they do not care what is in yours or anyone else’s north of Londons well being unless they are part of the club. It used to be said that a monkey in a red tie could get elected in Scotland and in the last few months Labour have clearly shown exactly how little they think of the Scottish electorate. They treat us with utter contempt then expect us to get back in our boxes and either vote for them or not vote. I have in the past voted Labour but it will be a cold day in hell before I vote for them again.

28 Days Later

Like many people in Scotland (almost 45%) the dawning of the 19th of September felt like the start of an apocalypse movie. So, 28 days after Scotland decided to choose a slow and steady decline of its economy and society over the possibly risky chance for revolutionary change, equality and enhanced democracy lets review exactly what we got for our troubles;

• Gordon Brown’s guarantee of more powers was officially dead before the end of the 19th of September
• Gordon Brown asked us to sign a petition to ask nicely for the powers that were definitely maybe coming to Scotland possibly.
• Benefits have been frozen dragging even more families into poverty.
• 120 more years of oil magically discovered by the BBC drilling team.
• The NHS which was absolutely safe on the 17th of September was under serious threat by the 19th.
• The proposed removal of the UK from the Human Rights Act in favour of a British Rights Bill which Westminster can change as and when it suits them not that they pay much attention to them anyway.
• Dissolution of workers rights, because screw workers right?
• Freedom of speech removed from people with a criminal record, and “problem groups” can anyone spell thought crime?
• A Tory seat stolen by UKIP returning the EXACT SAME POLITICIAN.
• The BBC inviting UKIP to take part in the General Election debate while ignoring the third biggest party by members and probably soon by seats (the SNP) and the Green Party who have had an MP for quite a while now.
• Legislation to stop Scottish MPs voting on English only matters – so much for all the people who said the needed Scotland to save England from the English.
• A 1% pay rise for nurses while MP’s receive 11% – aren’t you wonder who we are Better Together for yet?
• Disabled people regarded as not worth the full minimum wage by a man who hasn’t known a day of real work in his life.
• A brand new dubious war in Iraq where we plan to spend more money bombing people we already bombed that it would have cost to set up the entire new Scottish State.

I will never regret voting for a better tomorrow on the 18th of September but I wonder if all the people who voted No on the word of a bunch of lying politicians desperate to save their own skin will be able to say the same – time will tell.