Scottish Liberal Democrat Failings
There are some genuinely liberal and democratic people in the Liberal Democrats but Jim Wallace MSP, the long-running Deputy First Minister and Scottish Executive linchpin is not one of them. As the former Justice Minster he presided over a cruel and tyrannical legal system - courts, prisons, police and state mental hospitals - all illiberal to the point of being grotesquely fascist. It is not liberal to do as Jim Wallace does - to give an authoritative nod of approval to a fascist police state - and then disclaim responsibility by saying that judges must be independent, police must have operational independence and so on.
Wallace gives the thumbs up to the state independently to take away the liberty of almost any Scot at any time on the flimsiest of pretexts. Wallace would never lead a campaign or a fight for liberty - he simply does not care about anything other than his ministerial office and perks like being saluted by the police. So long as the police are not torturing Wallace and his close friends, or the prisons jailing his friends, or the state surgeons doing compulsory brain surgery on his friends then the liberties of the people of Scotland are of absolutely no concern whatsoever to Jim Wallace.
Jim Wallace is not therefore a "liberal" in the true sense of the word but he is a Lib-Dem party man - somehow the party of yellow posters, of the bird logo, of "us" ("uz" as Charlie Kennedy would say) has, in Scotland anyway, ditched every liberal and democratic principle for the pursuit of office. How sad that is.
As Justice Minister, Jim Wallace allowed the state to continue to strangle the Scottish economy - by preventing high profile protests against the mismanagement of key economic institutions such as the universities. As the new Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Minister, Wallace will, no doubt, continue to cause the economy to stagnate by turning a blind eye, as the state extinguishes any sign of liberty and democracy from the key economic institutions.
Other Lib Dem ministers have a similar contempt for genuine liberty and democracy. Expect them all to deliver nothing significant and worthwhile. Don't believe a word they say when you check out the Scottish Liberal Democrats' web site.
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