Got to laugh at the SNP and its supporters sometimes. When a celebrity who spends almost none of his time in Scotland says he supports independence for Scotland, he is hailed as some great braveheart hero.
When some footballers — some of whom actually seem to, horror of horrors, live in Scotland — announce that they back the union, they are derided as traitors.
When a businessman announces that he backs the SNP it is hailed as great evidence that independence is the only way forward. Even non-nats were impressed.
When a list of 151 businessmen announce their support for the union, it is all “Look how powerful and evil Tesco is”, “Let’s organise boycotts”, “Ha-ha, they don’t all support Labour”, “Who cares?” [not that HW supports the SNP, but he was impressed when RBS announced backing for the SNP, so what's different about Tesco?], “Can you say favours for honours?”.
It’s that last one that gets me. The SNP have always liked to point out how they are whiter than white, a stance which is greatly helped by the fact that they do not nominate people to enter the House of Lords.
But that doesn’t mean they are whiter than white. They can still do favours. Their biggest backer also happens to be Scotland’s biggest bigot (but, shh, don’t tell anyone about that and they might forget). And what is this?
[Update: Just discovered that one of the comments waiting in the moderation queue was someone else calling for a Tesco boycott. WordPress / Akismet thought it was spam but I have decided to let it through... Amusingly, they got here by searching Google for "snp blog".]
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