It must’ve seemed
like a good idea at the time, when SNP supremo, Alex Salmond, took pot shots at Chancellor
Gordon Brown in addressing the SNP conference in Dundee. Ah yes, a strategic
masterstroke, surely setting up the prospect of a strong SNP challenge to Brown in
Dunfermline East at the upcoming Election?
Er, probably not, no.
For the campaigners against regimental amalgamation plan to field their own candidate
in Brown’s constituency, a move likely to erode SNP support in Brown’s Fife
fiefdom.
Contacted for comment, a SNP electoral tactician told The JT: "We are four-square
behind the campaign to ensure that our brave lads may continue to be maimed and killed in
the various imperialist adventures to come provided they’re wearing a really nice set
of tartan trews and appropriate cap badge. But we hadn’t factored in the possibility
that this useful stick for whacking Scottish Labour might be turned against us vis a vis
the upcoming election. This is probably an instance of what cynical commentators like the
editor of the JT would call irony, isn’t it?"
Meanwhile, in an interview with Radio Scotland, deputy SNP leader, Nicola The Fish,
promised that defence spending would be increased in an independent Scotland.
Presumably this increase will be accompanied by a list of countries we intend invading
to make sure the money doesn’t just go to waste…
