Sturgeonland

[57vintage]

“The negotiation” referred to by RZ is the other massive stumbling block that I’ve referred to before, unless The Party finds a collection of capable, trusted, and experienced negotiators with the necessary knowledge and skills to deal with some fearsome big establishment beasts who will spot weakness and exploit it.

I don’t know where they’ll emerge from in the next decade, as it’s going to take a long time to weed out the current lead-swinging careerists, and more importantly the culture of cronyism that supports such a lackadaisical approach. There are few respected big beasts in The Party, which currently has the demeanour of a school debating society-cum-Rotary club, who have the necessary clout and knowledge to play the well-informed hardball necessary in any such negotiations.

“Ach, fûck it, it’ll be all right on the night and the fûcking English bástards will just roll over and cave in like the cûnts did at Flod… er Falkir…er… BANOCKBURN!” just won’t cut it.