Month: April 2021

Well, there we have it in Nicola Sturgeons own words, today in a Daily Record interview.
“I actually think of ‘super-majorities’ and gaming the system, and trying to bulldoze our way to independence almost regardless of the state of public opinion risks putting those that we are looking to persuade of the case for independence off rather than pulling them towards us.”

Yes hard to believe , but that is the words of the leader of the SNP, the so called party of independence.

She calls, democratically voting for a party who proposes, that in the event of a super-majority achieved on the basis of a manifesto which states that Scotland should be an independent country “trying to bulldoze our way to independence”

She then goes on to say that this would be “regardless of public opinion”, This is a leader of the largest political party in Scotland saying that a Scottish general election does not constitute an expression of public opinion.

Oh my God, so in one sentence she has trashed the democratic concept of an election together with the concept of a majority in the Scottish parliament leading to exactly what the people voted for.

I really do not think that the definition of fascism adequately covers that mindset, and this is coming from a woman who through two parliamentary enquiries into her behavior, a case in the high court and a trial in the high court of an innocent man, constantly obstructed the authorities and the investigating mediums , by a series of lies, obfuscation, misdirection and withholding of information and evidence.

She cannot even grasp the basic truth, that because of all of this sad affair played out in full view of the public, her ratings along with the ratings of her tarnished party are steadily going down. Unfortunately , because of the fact that the cause of independence is so closely tied with that party then so, also does the intentions to vote for independence.

You might wonder at this being one of the biggest political blunders of all time .

I don’t, in fact I believe it is one of the most carefully planned and successfully executed acts of political deception ever enacted against a sovereign people.

I have for some considerable time concluded, that taking into consideration the open goals not taken advantage of, the promises not kept, the careful shepherding of a cult like following, the crazy, gender recognition bill which would see biological men able to share toilets’ with my grandchildren and the women I care about, a hate crime bill which would make it illegal to complain about that and much, much more that this was all part of a plan.

Not the clever secret plan I have had dished up to me by the cult when I warned of this all happening. Not Nicolas clever plan that the “insiders” knew about with a nod and a wink, but a plan never the less, A plan to thwart the ambitions of a nation.

It was always, almost there wasn’t it? It was always just another promise away, Lets just get this election over with and we will be on that elusive road to independence, but we never were, were we? or did I miss something ?

I believe this was all part of a grand design, a grand design which was yet again about to work, until the fly dropped into the ointment, The fly was Alex Salmond. This was not part of the plan, Although, his intervention had of course been accounted for some considerable time ago and arrangements had been put in place to neutralize it. Unfortunately for Nicola, she had surrounded herself with a group of conspirators that would have put the Key Stone Cops to shame ( and I make no apology for the word Cops “Crown Office Prosecution service)

I needn’t go into this sorry tale but I am sure all will be reveled when the court case that Alex Salmond is taking against the Scottish government and Leslie Evans concludes.

The other thing that Nicola and her handlers did not take into consideration was a good, honest jury. Honesty, to be fair, not being one of Nicola’s strong points.

So the house of cards was beginning to crumble and the unfortunate thing for Nicola was that up to the Scottish government enquiries into her honesty she was riding High in the pols but not that high to give her a super majority which was where she wanted them, high enough to control the aspirations of independence supporters but not that high that would force her into doing what her constitution demanded of her and that was going for independence.

The leveler was the gender recognition bill and the dystopian Hate Crime Bill. That would stop the people of scotland getting above their station because there are just too many fair people in Scotland.

So the stage was set for a decent majority, just enough to keep the hotheads in step and spin out the cause of independence for at least another five years.

OOps, Alba, and the chance of a super majority , the baa was on the slates , Nicola immediately reverted to the bitter dangerous gender bent person that she is in an effort to drop her vote even further to make up for the additional seats that Alba would create, not only in the regional ( list) vote but also for the SNP in the Constituency vote.

This is where we are at the moment on the road to independence , We are in a bus ( lets call it the yes bus) we think it is heading on the road to independence but we have a been taken hostage by a rogue driver and she has constantly taken detours in the last six and a half years, We have a guy on board who can take control if he can convince enough of the passengers to assist. Problem is that we do not know if the drivers bosses have anything else up their sleeves to stop him rescuing the hostages.

Election prediction, despite the rogue bus drivers best efforts

SNP- 62 seats

Green 8 seats

Alba 10 seats

Supermajority, game on or else!

I was looking at some photos of Alex Salmond in Dundee city square earlier promoting the new party Alba, which are beginning to show some really good polling results.

His policy of attaining a super majority and therefore immediately commencing independence negotiations with the UK government, is beginning to find a lot of credibility with SNP voters. They are finally beginning to realise that the SNP mantra of both the constituency and regional vote for them is completely false and misleading as recent polling has shown.

By pure coincidence I opened Facebook and in my memories was this posting, which I copy below. It was a posting I made on the 27April 2017, exactly four years ago to the day, with the 2017 general election about to happen.

Now it was by far, not the first time I had criticised the SNP for their inaction regarding independence but what was topical about it ( apart from coming up for an election) was that I was advocating exactly the policy that Alex Salmond is advocating today, and that is in the event of a majority of independence supporting parties we simply begin independence negotiations with Westminster.

Over the last six and a half years under the leadership of Nicola Sturgeon, the cause of independence has gone backwards. This gives an idea of my thoughts during this awful period in Scotland’s history.

By the way, there must have been a large amount of people agreeing with me at the time because in the election over half a million SNP voters stayed at home compared to the election in 2015.

27 April 2017

OK so once again the SNP are running scared of mention of the word independence in connection with an election. This is really becoming tiresome. So just in case there is any SNP politicians or, for that matter members of the SNP political party not actually aware of their reason to exist, then I copy the second chapter of the SNP constitution here.

 2. The aims of the Party shall be:

(a) Independence for Scotland; that is the restoration of Scottish national sovereignty by restoration of full powers to the Scottish Parliament, so that its authority is limited only by the sovereign power of the Scottish People to bind it with a written constitution and by such agreements as it may freely enter into with other nations or states or international organisations for the purpose of furthering international cooperation, world peace and the protection of the environment.

OK so is there anything about that statement that any one does not understand?

Fine so why is it that every time we get near an election there is concern as to whether there will be any mention of independence in the Manifesto.

Here is a few facts to think about .
In the manifesto for the 2011 Scottish parliamentary election there was a definite intention to hold a referendum and the SNP were given a previously thought impossible overall majority in the Scottish parliament . The increase in their vote over the previous election was in the region of 12.75%

As a result of this they progressed to a referendum campaign and at that time independence was standing at 27% in the opinion polls.

During the referendum campaign we pushed that 27% to %45%.

In last years Scottish elections there was scant mention of independence and certainly no commitment to go for another referendum. The result of that election was that the SNP lost 6 seats and their increase in voters was 1.5% and that was with the inclusion of young voters that had not been possible in the previous election. There was also a doubling of Tory representation at Holyrood

Now lets look at the Westminster elections
The 2015 Westminster election came hard on the heels of the disappointment of the referendum campaign and at a point where the popularity of the SNP was at an all time high ,as they were seen to be the best possible bet for a future referendum.

I believe this was the point where the SNP made one of their most fundamental  tactical errors because they decided that they would set aside their reason to exist and put independence on a back burner. The reasoning behind this was that they felt that they should be seen to be governing for everyone and not just independence supporters.
Firstly that is impossible, you cant govern for everyone . You can consider everyone but you cant govern for everyone. A political party governs as per its manifesto and according to that parties constitution. It is as simple as that and as you can see above the parties constitution quite clearly makes it the party of independence.

Now the SNP had a historically significant mandate from the people of Scotland through the previous Scottish elections , an increase from 27% to 45% in the referendum campaign, an  unheard of increase in membership from around 15.000 to 110,000 and opinion polls indicating that they were on course for a wipe out of Labour and an unheard of return of MP’s to Westminster. So what did they do ?  they ignored all of these indicators and put their reason to exist to one side and they actively discouraged any mention of independence during the Westminster campaign.

Here in Dundee , the City that returned the largest percentage of yes votes they actively discouraged any expression of independence. I was involved in agreeing to supply the Yes Bus for an  independence rally  in the City Square the weekend before the 2015 general election which was cancelled at the last minute because of representations by the SNP to the organisers to reschedule the event to the week following the General Election. When I took this up with an SNP politician , his very words were ” we cant have Saltires and Yes signs being displayed in the City Square in Dundee the week before a general Election”. Yes ,that was his actual words.

The fact of the matter is that there was not a single person who voted for the SNP in either a Scottish Parliamentary election or a Westminster election who did not understand the whole propose of the SNP and therefore were well aware that their vote could lead to an independent Scotland. Therefore the SNP have ,either by design or simply incompetence, consistently steered away from their propose in life and that is independence, and they are about to do the exact same again with this upcoming General election.

Nicola Sturgeon’s first reaction to the announcement of the general election ( once she had managed to get out of the way of the car whose headlights she had been caught in ) was to announce that this election would give them a mandate for the mandate she had already said she had. A totally incoherent response. Her next  announcement was to make clear that this General Election would not be anything to do with independence , which begs the question ,” what is the propose then of the SNP”.

I have advocated making this General Election everything to do with independence by all the pro independence parties agreeing to make their manifestoes a one subject manifesto and that is independence then if we return a majority of MP’s then that would be the basis of commencing negotiations on independence . If there was more than 50% of voters between all the pro independence parties who voted for independence then we would in effect be independent, and arrangements could be made for a Scottish General election to form a Scottish government along with ongoing negotiations for a split of assets .

I have no doubt that the SNP will not take this option and will as usual try to do every thing to convince voters that for this period in the run up to the GE they are not the party of independence.

However, if they are to retain any credibility at all, there is one thing they must include in their manifesto and I have advocated this in both the last Westminster election and last years Scottish parliamentary election.
They must include an intention to wrest control of the ability to hold referendums from Westminster and place this power where it belongs and that is at Holyrood. If they once again fail to do  at least that  then they can no longer call themselves the party of independence.