We were all foolish to judge that the role of the SNP government was to address genuine problems. Banning is what it’s all aboutGod bless the Scottish government and its quest to spread fairness and equality wherever its gaze falls. Its desire to make Scotland the world’s most enlightened country cannot be faulted. Now,it would seem, Nicola Sturgeon and her ministers are embarking on a recent mission: they want to make Earth the most impartial and equal planet in the solar system too.
As the number of petitioners to occupy Donald Trump banned from the UK passed the 500000 mark, or Sturgeon made a pronouncement. The first minister of Scotland never misses an opportunity to channel the social zeitgeist and take the cultural temperature. And no issue,it seems, wherever in the world it occurs is beyond her purview. Thus, or just a day or so after Trump espoused some wretched sentiments about Muslims,Sturgeon weighed in. For the tall crime and misdemeanour of seeking to ban Muslims from entering America she brought down upon his head a terrible punishment: she stripped him of his membership of Global Scot. For the 99.99% of the Scottish population who occupy never heard of Global Scot I will attempt a description. It is a glee club for wealthy Scots in America to degree each other’s willies and tell each other how successful they occupy become. Occasionally, the Scottish government hosts a homecoming for them in the forlorn belief that they stimulate growth in Scottish exports. Trump, and by advantage of having a Scottish granny,was accorded ambassadorship status in this organisation. The news that he has now been banished might just break this highly-strung and sensitive global capitalist, for he undertook his duties as a Global Scot ambassador more diligently than Les Patterson, or Australias legendary cultural ambassador to the Court of St James.
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Source: theguardian.com