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Does Sarwar agree with Reeves ?
ReplyDeleteSarwar does what he is told to do by his London bosses!!!
DeleteSarwar agrees with those who can advance his career and bring in the money. Sarwar is a fine Labour gentleman following Labour's finest traditions of self-interest.
DeleteSarwar has no power and does what he is told. Nothing more than a lackey and a toady
DeleteJust on the "once in a generation" comment, Alex Salmond did define a generation as a "political" generation. He spelled out what he meant (and did say it was only his opinion); roughly the time between the various referendums (1979, 1997, 2014). So we are, in fact, entering the tail end of that political generation. This was only redefined by "once in a lifetime" by Unionists/British Nationalists after the event.
ReplyDeletePaul, until people like yourself realize that the SNP just isn't pursuing Independence, nothing will happen.
DeleteIn Northern Ireland a generation lasts 7 years.
DeleteThe SNP is failing Scotland completely and its delibrately. Once again we now hearing vote for the SNP and only the SNP next year for Independence and once again in the small print we'll have to try again in the next Westminster election in 2028 and after the 2028 election it'll be groundhog again 2031 Holyrood election enough is enough. I'm sorry but I am just not going to vote for the promise again of Independence for only the next day after the election the SNP has sold Scotland down the river and then looking for another mandate.
ReplyDeleteIf I were a unionist—yeah, yeah, troll on whoever says to shut up supposing that I am, I voted Yes in 2014 and SNP for as long as Holyrood has been in existence—but if I were in their place instead of ours, I'd demand a demonstration that the majority of Scots want the referendum. (Which I'd be well feart to lose.)
ReplyDeleteIn other words: the Brits should set the bar at 50%+1 of the *vote*, not seats, nor polls, but actual people's ballots, and let that be the line that we must cross. It's a high bar, high indeed, but at least it exists.
Of course, they say no such thing because they don’t want to make Alex and Nicola's mistake of being held hostage to their words for years after the fact. Why even permit us the right to choose our own fate when, apparently, Scots are a meek lot who, in their quiet acceptance, will take whatever Master gives them?
It's once we get angry as a nation and won't take any more of this, that’s when we will go.
1. The dominant national party elite ( SNP leadership) is infiltrated by the colonial power ( Westminster).
ReplyDelete2. The party leadership take the people up and down the independence hill time and time again.
3. Lacking courage at the decisive moment, time after time, the SNP leadership end up delaying indepependence.
4. The SNP leadership's inaction and deceit ruptures the movement. SNP loses 50,000 members, new micro parties spring up and SNP plummets in the polls.
5. The leadership try to deflect from their inaction and deceit by policies that are weird and only serve to divide the independence movement even further.
Conclusion: Scotland is a de facto colony and Westminster is working the strings of the puppet SNP leadership. All colonies are prisons but no prison is inescapable. Plenty of people's around the world have escaped from Westminster. The current Swinney plan is just point 2 above run again.
Solution: replace the current SNP leadership with a genuine independence leadership and carry out a de facto referendum asap.