Labour say Scotland is like Bangladesh!

 Snp independence plan relies on oil prices if other countries move to alternative fuels>scotland will be like bangladesh/iceland about 1 hour agovia TweetDeck

This was a tweet posted on the official Labour Twitter site today. It's been retweeted so they cannot deny saying it. Talk about trying to undermine confidence...

The people of Bangladesh are mainly employed in agriculture and live on less than one dollar a day. No disrespect to the 162 m people who live there, but Scotland is an extremely wealthy country in comparison.

What has Bangladesh ever done to the Labour Party that its name is used as a by-word for misery? The late Donald Dewar, when shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, used the Bangladesh comparison when trying to scare people about an independent Scotland after Jim Sillars won the Govan by-election in 1988. He was roundly condemned for doing so.

Desperate times, desperate measures?

If oil really is such a burden, why is Alasdair Darling basing his future budget forecasts on it? 

And what do they mean by 'If other countries move to alternative fuels'...Nobody thinks demand for oil is going to fall.  All economists predict it will stay high and will get higher still. That will be the case even as renewables come on stream.because economies will grow - China is already in growth again - and the demand for all forms of energy will keep growing too.. Of course maybe Labour hope to persuade the rest of the world to go nuclear....like England if they get their way.....

They may retort that their point was about green energy, but if they checked their facts they would know that Scotland is a world leader in that area too and so has more ambitious emission reduction targets than the UK.

 

 

 

Comments

[joe kane]

Er, just as a matter of historical fact, it was the British Empire which turned one of the most economically vibrant and rich areas of the world into what it is today, one of the poorest, called Bangladesh.

Bangladesh or Bengal as it was then called, was systematically plundered of its wealth and its home-grown industries were deliberately hampered and penalised, by the imperial British occupiers, in order to make way for more expensive cotton goods from the mills of Lancashire, which made profits for British buisnessmen not native Bengals/Bangladeshes.

Bengal/Bangladesh did have an export market in the British-induced opium production, which the British Empire forced their Chinese victims to buy at the point of the barrel of a gun(boat). Lews Castle, in Stornaway, was built on the proceeds of such British imperial drug-pushers as Sir James Matheson.

As with Bengal/Bangladesh whose wealth was such a burden to it - likewise Scotland and its oil wealth.

Anyway, what I originally came here for was this.
I immediately thought of GLG blog for some strange reason when I read this -

Love’s Labour’s Lost
Socialist Unity blog
26 Apr 2010
http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=5683

all the best GLG!

[Vronsky]

I know it's depressing, but Gray will be believed and the lies will be effective - Labour's spin merchants know what they are doing. Their principle task is to supply people with excuses for doing nothing. It's an easy brief, because we all adore reasons to do nothing. Vote for the familiar, vote to stay on the settee with your cup of tea or can of lager. Best of all, don't vote. It's so comfortable and undemanding.

Just because the Labour message is morally disgraceful doesn't mean that it's tactically unintelligent.

Nero had the right idea - learn to play the fiddle, so you can at least strike up a cheery tune as the place burns down.

[Suq]

Why is Gray even commenting on fantasy scenarios that are impossible to occur outside of Star Trek The Next Generation time travel episodes?

It's just daft!

Why is some of the press bothering mentioning this rubbish? Is it to deflect London Jim attaining the grand total of five percent from the poll?

[Takhisis1]

Even though they should never have made this an issue, it was actually due to a question during the Scottish debate on Sky where someone used Hamilton as an allusion to Melgrahi. That being said Murphy did then use it as capital as can been seen in all the headlines this morning

[Osama]

Yet we don't see Bangladesh reapplying to join Pakistan, India, or indeed the UK.

[CWH]

Labour in Scotland has now dragged school shooting in Dunblane into the election. They really are beyond the pale and Iain Gray should be made to publicly apologise for his comments.

By the way results from SKY News debates:
Alex Salmond – SNP – 45%
Alistair Carmichael – Lib Dem – 33%
David Mundell – Tory – 15%
Jim Murphy – Labour – 5%.