The culture of lies and lying (and moral corruption) in Scottish hyper-nationalist government today

It is not just Russia, Belarus or Donald Trump's Republican extremists that are afflicted by the collapse of democratic ideals. Scotland is too. The culture of lies and lying is everywhere now in this government of moral degenerates. Scotland is being run by the sort of clannish, half-brained wannabe-boss-class losers that once ran “Jim Crow” Alabama. They have to be stopped. Sturgeon must be put on trial for organising what amounts to a civil service lynch-mob.

The most important thing to understand about the SNP is that they are a bunch of HATERS. No issue is important to them than their own self-interest. They hate each other as much as they hate the rest of us who do not bow down to their self-proclaimed political divinity.

Nicola Sturgeon herself confessed to Mandy Rhodes, in a book called "Scottish National Party Leaders" (2016), that hatred has been "the motivation for my entire political career" (p. 358). This is an essentially negative position, and it springs from a psychological rather than a political root. They are mostly frustrated egotists who find normal socialisation difficult due to the fact that the world by and large does not take them at their OWN estimation of their value. All their geese are Concordes (Scottish built, of course).

I have written a book which describes the threats to the rule of law springing from their hatred (both self- and social-) at any restraint on their power, and their desperation to be in control of every aspect of all of OUR lives. The rule of law depends ultimately RECIPROCITY between the rulers and the ruled. Sturgeon’s self-obsession is a mortal threat to the main legal principle which Scotland has lived under since the seventeenth century.

The book is called "The Justice Factory: Can the Rule of Law Survive in 21st Century Scotland?" (Ian Mitchell, 2020) The Foreword was written by Lord Hope of Craighead, ex-Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court and the Professor of Public Law who is author “Constitutional Law of Scotland” wrote the Introduction to Part II. It is not a party political argument, and has been endorsed by both Ian (“Stone of Destiny”) Hamilton QC and Adam Tomkins, the Tory MSP who is also Professor of Constitutional law in the University of Glasgow.

It is an as yet untold story, but a very, very important. You can support the cause of ridding Scotland of political haters by circulating the book as widely as you can. Details here (available on Kindle too): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1981993401?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 

Here below is an article about the book and the problem in Scotland: 

Corruption of governance in Scotland under bureaucratic-authrolitarian nationalists

Nicola  Sturgeon, accused of bureaucratic corruption in Scotland, will NOT resign as First Minister, even though what she did was undoubtedly a resigning matter, and would have been for almost anyone else (possibly even Salmond). She is a different proposition.

Sturgeon is like Nixon in that she genuinely does not see that what she did was wrong. She believes anything which will further her cause is legitimate, in the same way that Nixon put it long after Watergate to David Frost in their television interviews. If I may quote from my book which starts with this case, and ends with a prediction of the destruction of Scottish legalism by a hyper-nationalist government:

 

"Nixon’s view was that executive privilege covered anything the President might want to do. 'If the President does it, that means that it is not illegal,' he said later in a televised interview with David Frost. This essentially monarchical conception of power is precisely what the framers of the Constitution wanted to avoid when they introduced into practical government for the first time in history the concept of the separation of powers." (p. 29)

 

“If Sturgeon does it, that means that it is not illegal” - that seems to be her view. And it is only the institutions of Scotland, in particular the judiciary, which have the power to force her out of office. The civil service has already been corrupted by politicisation (analysed in my Part II), and the police are now a form of gendarmerie, controlled by the state. There is only the judiciary left.

The battle between the judiciary and the whole single-government (i.e. legislature and partisan civil service) apparatus in Edinburgh is the defining conflict in post-devolution Scottish politics. I have already written here about how Donald Dewar introduced into the first draft of the Scotland Act a provision which would have given the First Minister the power to hire and fire judges, which would have meant the end of the separation of powers due to abrogation of judicial independence, held since 1701 under the Act of Settlement. (see pp. 320-2) That would have opened the way to quasi-totalitarian government, restrained only by the Human Rights Act and the UK Supreme Court.

Here the issue is this: what will the still independent judiciary do and - more importantly - WHEN will they be given the opportunity to do it? (This is an issue similar to that in the second Trump impeachment as, if they cannot act until after the May elections, that will be pointless.) My book tells the story of the post-devolution judiciary in Scotland and might be consulted by those with an interest in this key constitutional question: is the Frist Minister any longer bound by the conventions of democratic politics or does she have the sort of "executive privilege" which Nixon claimed?

My arguments are supported by some important figures in law. The Foreword is written by Lord Hope of Craighead, ex-Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court and Alan Page, Professor of Public Law at Dundee, who is the author “Constitutional Law of Scotland”, the main reference work, has written an Introduction to Part II.

See "THE JUSTICE FACTORY: Can the Rule of Law Survive in 21st Century Scotland?" (Ian Mitchell, 2020)

Details here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1981993401?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Fascinating article on fascinating subject... Scotland's descent into medievalism

 https://scottishlibertarians.com/scots-the-noo-people-or-peasants/ 

Nationalists creating new borders WITHIN the United Kingdom

 

Sturgeon’s obvious glee at the bright idea of using Covid to separate holy Scotland from chauvinistic, useless, prejudiced, xenophobic, militaristic, Trident-loving, French-hating, Boris-obeying, non-SNP-voting England is embarrassing to behold. IF, and it is a big "if", there is any rational case for using geographical segregation as a tool against the virus, then it should focus on separating the diseased areas from the healthy ones, so that the former can be locked down and the rest allowed to get on with life and earning some money for the country as a whole.

Dividing by counties is absurd - Argyll embraces near-Glasgow areas which are diseased with others like the islands and Kintyre which are comparatively free of Covid. In fact, a close look at the virus map would reveal that it is the most densely populated areas which are worst effected (no surprise there). BUT – and here's the interesting point – if that is correlated with the political map it will be seen that it is overwhelmingly (though not uniformly) true that the most diseased areas are SNP-supporting ones. The least diseased are the Tory ones.

If "President" Sturgeon really wanted to help, she would close off the diseased areas of the country from the healthy ones, but that would disadvantage her supporters and give a boost to her "enemies" (as she sees them). So the whole of Scotland is made to suffer from her blunt-instrument approach, which is destructive. Much more importantly, it is an indirect attack on the rule of law. It is by no means the first in her administration, and will not be the last, I am sure. But a pattern is beginning to emerge. She used the state apparatus to further her political goals. THAT is very much what Donald Trump has been doing, and I think she should be seen in that light - which is why I recently published my book on the wider subject of Scottish history and legal virtue.

It is called "THE JUSTICE FACTORY: Can the Rule of Law Survive in 21st Century Scotland?" (Ian Mitchell, 2020) It is not a party-political screed. It has been endorsed by both ends of the political spectrum here: Ian ("Stone of Destiny") Hamilton QC, the renegade nationalist, and Adam Tomkins, who is both an MSP (Tory) and Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Glasgow. The Foreword is written by Lord Hope of Craighead, ex-Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court and Alan Page, Professor of Public Law at Dundee, who is the author “Constitutional Law of Scotland”, the main reference work, has written an Introduction to Part II. Details of the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1981993401?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860  

Politicisation of the civil service undermines democracy and the rule of law

 Politicised civil service

 

 The rule of law cannot survive if you have a politicised civil service (never mind the other significant problems raised). Few people realise just how far that degenerative process has gone in Scotland since the SNP assumed the reins of government.
If I may quote briefly from my book on the subject:

"Immediately after the SNP got into power in 2007, it announced that it was going to change the name of the Scottish Executive so that both it and what was previously referred to as the Scottish Ministers became one entity called the “Scottish government”.
Announced initially as “re-branding”, it was made official when the Scotland Act was amended in 2012. The country is now run by a body officially known as the “Scottish Government/Riaghaltas na h-Alba”. This obscures the distinction between politically responsible ministers (responsible to parliament and the electorate) and politically neutral administrators (responsible to law for ethics and to minsters for policy). If they are still separate organisations, why do they have the same name? Who, outside the Edinburgh elite, understands the distinction between the Scottish Government/Riaghaltas na h-Alba and the Scottish Government/Riaghaltas na h-Alba?"

For further details, and much information on how the civil service was used to promote the SNP view of the 2014 referendum, and is still doing much they same thing, see "The Justice Factory: Can the Rule of Law Survive in 21st Century Scotland?" (Ian Mitchell, 2020)
It is not a party-political screed. The Foreword is written by Lord Hope of Craighead, ex-Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court and Alan Page, Professor of Public Law at Dundee, who is the author “Constitutional Law of Scotland”, the main reference work on the subject, has written an Introduction to Part II.
This is an as yet untold story, but a very, very important one if the British state is to survive with the ideals it has embraced about civic government roughly since the Act of Union, of which the main one is the rule of law, at the centre of which is the principle of the separation of powers. The Scottish nationalists want to undermine that in order to establish a form of populist absolutism in Edinburgh. Now is the time for all good folk to come to the aid of the country and of course democracy. Without the rule of law, that is a dead letter.
Details of the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1981993401?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

 

Similarities between Donald Trump's mob in Washington and Nicola Sturgeon's nationalist mob in Scotland

 The SNP is becoming like Trump. Perhaps we should not be surprised as the universal effect of hate to become like that which you hate.

I as an anti-nationalist have had the most abusively Trumpish responses from nationalists to expressions of opinions different from theirs. Most are obscene; many are illiterate; and a good many exhibit a gloating triumphalism due to the writer's assumption that Sturgeon is creating something close to a one-party state in Scotland.
The most recent, was a commentator who said that after independence "there'll be a lamppost waiting for you, sooner rather than later." If this is not Scottish Trumpism I do not know what is.
The essential issue here is the rule of law. I believe its future in Scotland is no longer guaranteed. We cannot take civilisation for granted. We need to do something serious about that. If you want to understand the background and context of this (hitherto obscure) issue, you could do a lot worse than get yourself a copy of "The Justice Factory: Can the Rule of Law Survive in 21st Century Scotland?" (Ian Mitchell, 2020)
It is not a party-political screed. It has been endorsed by both ends of the political spectrum here: Ian ("Stone of Destiny") Hamilton QC, the renegade nationalist, and Adam Tomkins, who is both an MSP (Tory) and Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Glasgow.
The Foreword is written by Lord Hope of Craighead, ex-Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court and Alan Page, Professor of Public Law at Dundee, who is the author “Constitutional Law of Scotland”, the main reference work, has written an Introduction to Part II.
This book ought to sit on the desks of all important political commentators because it is an as yet untold story, but a very, very important one if the British state is to survive with the ideals it has embraced about civic government roughly since the Act of Union, of which the main one is the rule of law. Now is the time for all good folk to come to the aid of the country and of course democracy. Without the rule of law, that is a dead letter.
Details of the book (and Kindle) here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp...

Is "deliberative democracy" for England only?

 

It cannot said too often that one part of the UK – Scotland – is moving AWAY from the model of "deliberative democracy" and is PROUD OF THE FACT. Before the Union sunders as a result of one part ("deliberative England") not knowing what afflicts another part ("progressive Scotland" in which, as one Facebook commentator put it two days ago after a post of mine "there will be a lamppost waiting for you, sooner rather than later"), it is essential that those of us who support the Union as a bastion in the world of the rule of law make ourselves heard on the reality of the dangers facing us right now.   

England may evolve towards a more caring, sharing democratic model, but Scotland is evolving towards one in which there are far too many people who are proud of their intolerance of what they see as "English Tory" opinions, views and way of life. This is not a new development. It has been in train ever since Mrs Thatcher expressed her own pride in the apparent destruction of the socialist outlook on life which had taken hold in Scotland in the early twentieth century, ousting the individualistic Liberalism that was the country's main political centre since male democracy was introduced by Disraeli and Gladstone. Now the people who lost under Thatcher are claiming their negativity back. They are desperate to unleash on what they see as Thatcherites the kind of revenge which the peasantry unleashed on the Russian landholding class after the near-revolution of 1905. (i.e. plenty of house and barn burning, but not too much murder - at least not yet; that had to wait for 1917).   

Many years ago, I started to write about this, and two months ago my book was published. I have tried to describe how the gerrymandering of the Scottish parliament by Donald Dewar has led to the situation we are currently in (and also how he tried to take the judges under political control, but was foiled in the House of lords). He wanted to create a permanent Labour majority, but ended up creating a permanent anti-Union one.   

I urge the political class in Britain which advocates for the tender care for democracy described in this well-meaning but to me limited article (as it does not deal with the UK outside England) to make themselves aware of the forces which are moving underfoot right at this moment (next Scottish election is in May; just for moths away).   

My book is called "The Justice Factory: Can the Rule of Law Survive in 21st Century Scotland?" It is not a party-political screed. It has been endorsed by both ends of the political spectrum here: Ian ("Stone of Destiny") Hamilton QC, the renegade nationalist, and Adam Tomkins, who is both an MSP (Tory) and Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Glasgow.   

The Foreword is written by Lord Hope of Craighead, ex-Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court and Alan Page, Professor of Public Law at Dundee, who is the author “Constitutional Law of Scotland”, the main reference work, has written an Introduction to Part II.   

This book ought to sit on the desks of all important political commentators because it is an as yet untold story, but a very, very important one if the British state is to survive with the ideals it has embraced about civic government roughly since the Act of Union, of which the main one is the rule of law. Now is the time for all good folk to come to the aid of the country and of course democracy.   

Details of the book here (paperback or Kindle)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1981993401?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Hate Crime in Scotland

Here is a film I have just made about the Hate Crime Bill in Scotland. It will be of interest to those Russians who see, as I do, a "Sovietising" tendency in some Western countries. It is very sad to see Scotland included in this category. But you may disagree. Watch the film and let me know what you think:

Short 04 - Hate Crime Bill - YouTube 

Alternatively you can come in though "Ian Mitchell's Book Recommendations", my YouTube channel which has much else besides this for your interest, all about books and mainly about Russia, law and/or Scotland:

Ian Mitchell's Book Recommendations (videos)

Enjoy!

Important point about Law in Scotland today

 

You can buy the book at this link (on Kindle as well as in paperback): The Justice Factory: Can the Rule of Law Survive in 20th Century Scotland? (2020) on Amazon 

 you enjoy reading it! I certainly enjoyed writing it.

Ian Mitchell 

Video about an Irish hero in the struggle for independence from Britain

The basis of this video is a book called "The Crime Against Ireland - and How the War may Right It". It was written by Sir Roger Casement and published in 1914. The story of his "treason" against Britain and the resulting trial in London (after he had arrived in Co. Kerry in a U-boat), just after the Easter Rising in 1916, is followed by readings from the book he published arguing that a German victory in the imminent war would be good for Ireland.

These readings cover his arguments
that Germany is the "champion of Europe"; that the Germans are more virtuous than the English; that the Irish are more moral than the English; and, curiously, that Irish morality consists in allying itself with a power which wants to use force to settle international disputes.

The film ends with a modern parliamentarian calling up the spirit of the War of Independence, but complaining that today the country's government is as restrictive as Hitler's. "But," he adds with passion, "we're supposed to be a demacrocity."

Watch at this link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO0Re8HX-LY