“Now that ALBA are becoming a force to be reckoned with we will not be done down in future” – former Justice Secretary.
Kenny MacAskill MP has slated the Electoral Commission for their failure to approve the ALBA logo in time for the election ballot papers.
He said
“The Commission was set up to ensure fairness in politics not to entrench unfairness. ALBA was a very small party in early February when they submitted a logo design to the Commission. The bureaucratic delays are inexcusable with Commission systems that do not work and emails and phone calls unanswered. It wasn’t until Alex Salmond came on board this week that the Commission started to pay attention.
ALBA have been treated shabbily and now that we are becoming a force to be reckoned with we will not be done down like this in future. Unlike Labour yesterday we did not have the finance to challenge the Commission in court this time. But that will not be the case in times to come nor indeed should it be necessary.
The Commission have the most serious questions to answer and have introduced unfairness into the election. They seem hell-bent on placing obstacles in ALBA’s way with every important decision run from their team in London. That team seem to have allocated the Scottish elections a very low priority.
The most serious question of all is how they were able to process and approve a change of SNP identity mark first released for public consultation on 11th March but not ALBA material submitted exactly one month earlier. The Commission officials bent over backwards to assist the big party but gave little or no help to the emerging party. This is exactly the opposite of what they are meant to be doing.”
Absolute outrage. A deliberate interference to bias against a political party. The London based Electoral Commission know exactly what they are doing.
But it’s not just in banning a party’s logo, the BBC have already excluded Alex Salmond from the leaders debate whilst the MSM go full out to disparage party Alba.
People must be aware of these deliberate interventions into the process of what should be a democratic election. And they must challenge such intervention. Sad to say but this stinks and we need to change it.
I think that now, Willie, we will see the real face of English/British Nationalism. They were not afraid of Nicola Sturgeon because they could see that her outbursts were little more than hot air, redolent of the occasion. They know, now, that we are very, very serious and all the stops will be pulled out: the ones they think they can get away with first; then the dirty ones; then the very, very dirty ones.
Good to have Kenny’s knowledge and ability in Alba’s team. We are extremely fortunate.
As Kenny has the knowledge and ability to combat the dishonesty of the British State, we in the Alba Party are extremely fortunate.
It was also against electoral rules for the ‘purdah period’ to be breached, yet the EC allowed Cameron and the Unionists to do it in 2014. It is not just ‘not allowed’, but actually illegal to leak results before the count on polling day (postal votes), yet two high-profile Unionists did so: John McTernan (four days in advance of polling day, on a public politics programme for which the footage still exists) and Ruth Davidson (on polling day, on a public politics programme, well before the count was announced, for which the footage also still exists). In both cases the footage is evidential, as would be any person’s recollection of said breaching. Use everything you can, Mr MacAskill, to show that the rules are consistently broken by the Unionists, but that they are allowed to get away with flagrant breaches. If they don’t back off, explain to them that there will be a public letters of complaint campaign for which they will need to employ extra staff.
“MACASKILL TAKES ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO TASK”
Thank goodness for our friends, who are knowledgeable, and capable in taking that Electoral Commission to task; and they are effectively speaking on behalf of our independence cause!
With grateful thanks,
Ewen
To be expected given the fear from the English establishment who want to maintain the status quo at the very least and to, ideally for them, fully subsume Scotland.