ROCK ON TOMMY! SHERIDAN TRIUMPHANT OVER NEWS OF THE SCREWS

Tommy Sheridan has won his libel case against the News of the World.

BRILLIANT! The News of the World is the scummiest of all rags and this is a fantastic victory by a man who has devoted his whole political life to helping the working class of Scotland.

The question now of course is where now for the Scottish Socialist Party? Since Colin Fox was elected leader the party has diluted its interest in independence, his attack on the saltire was an indication that he had never lost his attachment to his Brit left roots.

People have been going around suggesting that Sheridan is about to sell out the cause of Scotland and join Respect, while I could imagine Fox going down that road I have no doubt that Sheridan would tell Gorgeous George where to stick his one man band - which has as about as much political relevance as Robert Kilroy Silk's Veritas.

There is little doubt in my mind that Sheridan will thrash Fox. What he needs to do afterwards is re-concentrate the SSP's energies on winning independence by working together with the Greens and SSP. It was Sheridan's desire to do this which led to his original break with English Militant, unfortunately some of his comrades who apparently joined him at the time didn't share his desire to break up the British state.

He should now rid his party of the rest of Militant, the CWI, SWP, RCN and all the other fringe t*ssers who don't give a damn about Scottish independence and re-orientate his party firmly back to pushing Scottish independence from the left.

This putrid trial will hopefully not have damaged Sheridan's credibility as a standard bearer for the Scottish left, however it will damage his so called comrades who stabbed him in the back by participating with the News of the World in this hatchet job.

It beggars belief that Sheridan would admit to these allegations and at the same time expect to be backed in his fight. That a handy minute of these meeting would be kept for the NOTW is also bizarre, almost as bizarre as his comrades discovering respect for the legal process just in time to knive their former national convener!

Obviously some were willing to see their former leader fall so long as it furthered their own careers, if their careers now founder on the rocks they have only themselves to blame. Sheridan built his party from the ground up. He put his neck on the line for ordinary Scottish people time after time after time. He should have got a hell of a lot more loyalty from his former comrades than he did get.

Obviously they preferred to take the word of a scummy rag over that of their former leader. If their short lived careers are now flushed down the political toilet then they have only themselves to blame.

Rumours are not facts. I always treat people based on my own experience of them not what someone else says about them. Sheridan like every other person had an absolute right to be 'innocent until proven guilty'. The news of the World providing nothing but rumours and innuendo and no solid facts whatsoever.

Tommy has now been proven innocent and deservedly so. Well done!

I said in this blog a few weeks ago that I hoped Sheridan would kick the NOTW's collective a*se and it is great to be proved right.