How the Tartan Trump gets away with it – Issue XXII
Why have our journalists not been driven to blind rage by Orange Woman Bad syndrome? If Trump was 'Cheeto Hitler', isn't the similarly coloured Mrs Sturgeon 'Irn Bru Mugabe'?
Cartoon by Crid.
This is an excerpt of an article that features in our 22nd print issue.
Dangerous incompetence was not the only charge levelled at President Trump by the media establishment. His detractors also criticised his bullying, his attempts to force the de jure impartial state to do his bidding, his tendency to foment bigotry and insurrection if it helped him politically, and the whiff of corruption emanating from his personal affairs.
Yet nobody whose nose was sensitive to such a stink would want to stand downwind from Mrs Sturgeon. The Salmond Enquiry appeared to show that Mrs Sturgeon and elements of the SNP leadership had conspired to have former SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond imprisoned. Meanwhile, we are still no closer to finding out what happened to the hundreds of thousands of pounds the SNP raised to fund a second referendum campaign. A police investigation has started, but The Sunday Times reported on the July 25th that the Crown Office – which by law is independent, but is led by SNP appointees – had intervened to limit the scope of the enquiry.
So why have our journalists not been driven to blind rage by Orange Woman Bad syndrome? If Trump was 'Cheeto Hitler', isn't the similarly coloured Mrs Sturgeon 'Irn Bru Mugabe'? Yes, she is, but it does not matter.
First, the fashionably left wing metropolitans who dominate the media might spend most of their time sanctimoniously asserting their cosmopolitan credentials, but they know next to nothing of British life outside London. They understand more about Tuscany than Tayside.
Secondly, they like Nicola Sturgeon's policies. Introducing identity-based quotas for jobs and parliamentary seats, curtailing free speech, aggressive targets to reach net-zero carbon emissions and a preference for open borders all come from the modern left's wish list.
Thirdly, the English intelligentsia hate England and the English, too. When Mrs Sturgeon stokes up anti-English bigotry, she says what many London-based journalists and Labour politicians are thinking.
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