Talking-up Scotland

We’ve already seen worrying evidence of sectarianism, bigotry and racism in the Tory party as we run up to the General Election. See:

https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/10971/tories-silent-growing-evidence-anti-irish-and-anti-catholic-bigotry-inside-party

Good News for Indyref2: More Tories mean more offensive comments

Now, Senior Scottish Conservative Richard Cook has been exposed as a major donor to the DUP. I’m not denying his right to donate to them just questioning the implications of it for the Tory party’s credibility as a party for the whole Scottish people, as they like to claim. Here some of what Open Democracy wrote:

‘Richard Cook is not just connected to Northern Irish unionism – he has links that go to the heart of the Scottish Conservative Party, the Saudi intelligence service and a notorious Indian gun running scandal……Key activists in his team were subsequently found burning the EU flag and posting Northern Irish loyalist song lyrics on Twitter.’

Worrying?

https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/peter-geoghegan-adam-ramsay/meet-scottish-tory-behind-425000-dup-brexit-donation