Bless me father for I have sinned, it's been 4 weeks since my last blog. When I started this I thought I'd have lots to say. It turns out that I don't have as many thoughts as you might think, lol. To be honest, I've had so much to do, what with having an experiment to write up most nights and generally feeling gubbed or sore or whatever. For those that don't know, I was rear ended (ooh-err) by a drunk driver a couple of years ago and have basically been in pain since, to varying degrees.
Anyway...I could go off on a big rant about stuff that's been going on: the cuts; the shafting of the RAF in the north east; the Scottish Office (sic) being as useless as ever - what do they actually DO now we've got our own Parliament, even if it's only really a half-arsed Parliament because all the important stuff is reserved to the UK Parliament, presumably because we're not to be trusted with important things like the Scottish economy...anyway I digress, where was I? Oh yeah, cuts; the Edinburgh trams project and the hypocrisy of Labour, Lib Dems and the Tories to go on Newsnight and criticise it after it was them who clubbed together to force it through the Scottish Parliament 3 years ago - after the SNP Government planned to cancel the whole pointless and costly exercise; the hypocrisy of Scottish Labour leader Ian Gray to go on an offensive at his party's conference, criticising the current MINORITY Scottish Government for all the "broken promises" after his party and others (see previous point) voted down almost every one of them. Is the concept of a minority government completely lost on you Mr Gray, or are you just hoping that the Scottish people are stupid enough to fall for your bollocks? Actually, to be perfectly honest, he's probably right, particularly in Glasgow where you could put a chimp up for election, put a red rosette on it, and it'd still win by a landslide.
Of all the political parties in Scotland, Labour are the most contemptible. They spend the majority of their campaigns spreading fear and negativity and, is often the case, downright lies, particularly when it comes to the case for independence. All politicians exaggerate to make their own side look better, but these guys take the biscuit. For the past half century (at least) Labour have had it easy in Scotland and the West Coast in particular, because no matter how poor their record, how much corruption is unearthed, how little they have done for the communities who continue to vote for them time after time, they still get back in. And now you have this clown Gray hoping to become First Minister. Are you serious? Do we really want this guy, who, for the most part, looks like he's just come back from signing on at the job centre, to be the public face of our country? Say what you like about Alex Salmond, I know some folk don't like him, but he is an excellent statesman and someone I'm proud to have leading the country and fighting our case. If we go back to having a Labour lackey in charge once again, he'll continue to take his orders from Ed Miliband and the Scottish Government will go back to being a mouthpiece for their bosses down south. No way, I don't want that, I want someone completely focussed on doing what is best for Scotland, not some subservient from Labour.
On the 5 May next year we'll have this choice:
or 
It's got to be Salmond. It just has to be. Gray looks like he's been dragged through a hedge most of the time.
In fact, I'm just going to leave it there. Another blog coming right up
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