Blair's Corrupt Britannia Gerrymanders The Scottish Elections
By Rory Winter
04 May, 2007
Countercurrents.orgUp all night watching the electoral results of the Scottish parliamentary and municipal elections. For the first time it seemed as if the Scottish National Party (SNP) had a chance of leading the next Scots Parliament at Holyrood.
Everyone was expecting Nu Labor to get a hammering north of the border.
But, hey! Guess what. It looks like Tony Blair's corrupt crowd have done a Bush fix and stolen the election from under our very noses!
Very early on, as the election results started to dribble in it was clear that hundreds of ballot papers were being rejected by the Data Research Services' ballot-paper capture scanning software and that the results were failing to be collated and tabulated. An embarrassed spokesman for DRS was interviewed and, as to be expected, gave an extremely defensive reply.
By this morning it had become clear that over between 100-150 thousand ballot papers had been rejected by the super dooper DRS system. Turns out that DRS bought over a US company called Peladon which bought imaging systems software from Diebold, the company that gave away two presidential elections to Dubya, the usurper.
So it looks like the good voters of Scotland have been hijacked by the Atlantist neocon, new world odour. Cui bono? A centralized, Stalinist Nu Labor government which is terrified of losing their stranglehold over a country which might soon insist on its independence and an end to the corrupt Union with England.
When Scotland was given its (restricted) legislature eight years ago a condition was that Westminster would retain its right to run electoral matters in Scotland. Now we can see why. Before the new electoral procedures were implemented --a complicated system of proportional representation using the Alternative System for parliamentary elections and the Single Transferable Voting System for municipal ones-- Blair was warned that to hold two such elections simultaneously using different systems would lead to confusion and breakdown.
Which is exactly what has happened. Despite all the warnings given, Blair & Co ignored them and carried on regardless. Why? Did he and Nu Labor anticipate an electoral fiasco and deliberately seek to gerrymander an election which the SNP could have won? Why did he go ahead with an electoral machinery that was doomed to fail? If any one party has lost as a result it is likely to be the SNP, the Greens and the small socialist parties which would have benefited from the AV List, the very section which has clearly led to confusion and the rejection of a huge number of votes.
Being a cynic this smells to me of yet another Blair crime. He's a war criminal, after all. A mass-murderer who doesn't give a damn about his victims. Why should he care about the Scots electorate?
I am writing this on the hoof so I haven't had time to research the story in detail. I just want all you out there to know how Blair and his corrupt cronies tried to screw the people of Scotland last night.
There's a lot of very angry folk in Scotland today. This story will run and run.
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