The original name was "Liberate Scotland", and the additional word was at the behest of the Electoral Commission. Though, of course, choosing a word beginning with A was a Barrhead Prism HQ decision.
I do wonder if such groups are really just set up to undermine the Independence movement and therefore by definition the operators are wittingly or unwittingly working for the British state and empire.
May’s Holyrood election will be a relative non-event. Not so the Senedd elections under their new, and expanded PR variant. YouGov MRP model, field work 9 -18 March, population sample 2,978. Plaid Cymru 43 seats, 6 short of outright majority. RefUK second place, 30 seats. Third place Labour, 12 seats. Fourth place Greens, 10 seats. Tories last represented party on one seat. Plaid can freeze Labour out of power by forming a coalition with the Greens. The Tories are reduced to an irrelevance, and the LibDems don’t feature at all.
If anything could function as a wake up call for the British establishment, it would be this. The message is clear. Everywhere outwith the SE of England is sick of Greater London being the perpetual vampire sucking the life blood out of the rest of the UK. Nothing will change. The problem is structural. Mebyon Kernow will rise in Cornwall. The Yorkshire Party, and others will become a regional force within England. Boris Johnson blustered about “Levelling Up”. His Chancellor, Rishi Sunak held the purse strings, and knew better. It’s all just words. Follow the money. HS2, the expansion of Heathrow, the impending public bailout of Thames Water, these are the death throes of an anachronistic, centralised state (see also, Dublin & Paris). An independent Scotland would do well to observe, and learn. Edinburgh, and the Central Belt more broadly are predestined to become the leach pulling power and finance from the rest of the country unless measures are put in place from the very outset to prevent it.
I think many in the central belt support rural communities with unprofitable ferries, railways and air flights.Calling us leeches suspect maybe you are one of the underminers.
Regular folk in the Central Belt are not leaches. That was not the impression I intended to convey, and I apologise for my inexactitude. The pertinent point is ensuring that the Establishment is geographically distributed around the country. The majority of the population is located in the Central Belt, and we do subsidise ferries, etcetera. We could democratically decide to end these subsidies. I would vote against such a move on the basis that leaving a substantial portion of your landmass unpopulated is a strategically unwise move, but the decision would be valid on a democratic basis. It would be an example of majoritarianism. An entirely disproportionate amount of capital investment, and subsidy goes to the SE of England not out of a democratic distribution of population, but out of a concentration of Power. The Establishment play a game of divide-and-rule with the countries and regions to ensure the flow of wealth to that particular corner of England.
Oh, I don’t know, if the venerable statesman Craig Murray is with them they can hardly be a bunch of dangerous diddies. I mean, he always supports the most laudable, peaceful underdogs worldwide.
It is alarming that Sovereignty gets so much traction. I was pleased to see after the last AUOB march that AUOB have dissociated themselves from Sovereignty.
"Atlas" - Good Heavens - let's have a party and keep the sky from falling.
Meanwhile politicians these days have so little to worry about on our behalf that they judge each other on who told the worst joke 8 years ago. Winner of the week - Offord. Never mind the price of diesel, energy and food, who's got a bad joke to tell about hailstones we had today?
The decision to veto the £1.5 billion wind turbine facility at Ardersier appears to rest in two assertions. * Supply chain resilience: To quote the Chair of the Westminster Business and Trade Committee; “over-reliance on China in strategic sectors leaves Britain exposed to coercion, disruption, and unfair competition”. So, someone else is standing by ready to jump in and provide investment for 1,500 jobs in Scotland? Nah, we’ll continue to depend on importing wind turbines from some other foreign source, but with zero benefit to our economy. The supply chain resilience ship sailed in 1979 when Thatcher decided to de-industrialise the UK. * National security: An easy justification to throw around, especially when you don’t have to provide any evidence to substantiate it. But our Security Services are honest and reliable right? Two individuals of different sex, radically different age, different BMI, radically different underlying health, come into contact with “the deadliest nerve agent known to man”. Five hours later, they collapse simultaneously, down to the very second. The first passer by on the scene is the most senior Nurse in the Armed Services. Fiction devised by individuals entirely devoid of basic scientific knowledge.
1) they are standing in constituencies as well as the list, so jettisoning the ‘we’re just trying to complement the SNP by getting a supermajority on the list’ argument typically put forward by the fringe list parties.
2) I think I read they are standing in 38 constituencies plus the eight regional lists. So that’s £23,000 they’ll have to stump up and will never see again. Who’s bankrolling them? Either someone happy enough to set fire to twenty three grand, or are candidates being made to stump up their own deposits?
And that’s just to cover deposits, before they’ve even spent a penny on campaign material.
Olympic women's sport to be for biological females only. Common sense and science was always going to overcome absurd nonsense.
So once again the SNP ultra fanatic SNP supporting trolls have got it wrong again.
The numpties should try following Sturgeon's advice and think for themselves rather than follow like lemmings any rubbish put forward by politicians. I accept it is difficult for them as they ain't too bright but they could at least try.
You're absolutely right, more people should've listened to Nicola Sturgeon and we'd have been independent by now, she was the best we ever had but you and your Tory Reform and Britnat media crew trolled the internet with your anti SNP garbage making up nonsense which is what you're doing now, do one ya wee Tory numpty
Another party calling itself something starting with "A" so it can be near the top of the list, alphabetically. Y'all ain't no Mr T.
ReplyDeleteThe original name was "Liberate Scotland", and the additional word was at the behest of the Electoral Commission. Though, of course, choosing a word beginning with A was a Barrhead Prism HQ decision.
DeleteWell, it worked for Alba
DeleteI do wonder if such groups are really just set up to undermine the Independence movement and therefore by definition the operators are wittingly or unwittingly working for the British state and empire.
ReplyDeleteAlliance to Liberate Scotland, to quote Dave Cameron (talking about UKIP) a collection of loons, fruitcakes and closet racists.
ReplyDeleteMay’s Holyrood election will be a relative non-event.
ReplyDeleteNot so the Senedd elections under their new, and expanded PR variant.
YouGov MRP model, field work 9 -18 March, population sample 2,978.
Plaid Cymru 43 seats, 6 short of outright majority. RefUK second place, 30 seats. Third place Labour, 12 seats. Fourth place Greens, 10 seats. Tories last represented party on one seat.
Plaid can freeze Labour out of power by forming a coalition with the Greens. The Tories are reduced to an irrelevance, and the LibDems don’t feature at all.
If anything could function as a wake up call for the British establishment, it would be this. The message is clear. Everywhere outwith the SE of England is sick of Greater London being the perpetual vampire sucking the life blood out of the rest of the UK.
Nothing will change. The problem is structural. Mebyon Kernow will rise in Cornwall. The Yorkshire Party, and others will become a regional force within England.
Boris Johnson blustered about “Levelling Up”. His Chancellor, Rishi Sunak held the purse strings, and knew better. It’s all just words. Follow the money. HS2, the expansion of Heathrow, the impending public bailout of Thames Water, these are the death throes of an anachronistic, centralised state (see also, Dublin & Paris).
An independent Scotland would do well to observe, and learn. Edinburgh, and the Central Belt more broadly are predestined to become the leach pulling power and finance from the rest of the country unless measures are put in place from the very outset to prevent it.
That's us Central Belt keelies put in our place.
DeleteI think many in the central belt support rural communities with unprofitable ferries, railways and air flights.Calling us leeches suspect maybe you are one of the underminers.
DeleteRepossess all those empty second homes and open up the Highlands for us Scots to return.
DeleteRegular folk in the Central Belt are not leaches. That was not the impression I intended to convey, and I apologise for my inexactitude. The pertinent point is ensuring that the Establishment is geographically distributed around the country.
DeleteThe majority of the population is located in the Central Belt, and we do subsidise ferries, etcetera. We could democratically decide to end these subsidies. I would vote against such a move on the basis that leaving a substantial portion of your landmass unpopulated is a strategically unwise move, but the decision would be valid on a democratic basis. It would be an example of majoritarianism.
An entirely disproportionate amount of capital investment, and subsidy goes to the SE of England not out of a democratic distribution of population, but out of a concentration of Power. The Establishment play a game of divide-and-rule with the countries and regions to ensure the flow of wealth to that particular corner of England.
Edinburgh galleries government funded, galleries everywhere else council funded. Thank you very much now shut up, Scotland.
DeleteOh, I don’t know, if the venerable statesman Craig Murray is with them they can hardly be a bunch of dangerous diddies. I mean, he always supports the most laudable, peaceful underdogs worldwide.
ReplyDeleteIt is alarming that Sovereignty gets so much traction. I was pleased to see after the last AUOB march that AUOB have dissociated themselves from Sovereignty.
ReplyDeleteCorbyn has done a Salmond and decided his party will not contest an election. In-fighting, corruption and humiliating collapse to follow.
ReplyDeleteThey’ve got that already. Corbyn’s main problem is he’s got absolutely no self awareness.
Delete"Atlas" - Good Heavens - let's have a party and keep the sky from falling.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile politicians these days have so little to worry about on our behalf that they judge each other on who told the worst joke 8 years ago. Winner of the week - Offord. Never mind the price of diesel, energy and food, who's got a bad joke to tell about hailstones we had today?
The decision to veto the £1.5 billion wind turbine facility at Ardersier appears to rest in two assertions.
ReplyDelete* Supply chain resilience:
To quote the Chair of the Westminster Business and Trade Committee; “over-reliance on China in strategic sectors leaves Britain exposed to coercion, disruption, and unfair competition”. So, someone else is standing by ready to jump in and provide investment for 1,500 jobs in Scotland? Nah, we’ll continue to depend on importing wind turbines from some other foreign source, but with zero benefit to our economy. The supply chain resilience ship sailed in 1979 when Thatcher decided to de-industrialise the UK.
* National security:
An easy justification to throw around, especially when you don’t have to provide any evidence to substantiate it. But our Security Services are honest and reliable right?
Two individuals of different sex, radically different age, different BMI, radically different underlying health, come into contact with “the deadliest nerve agent known to man”. Five hours later, they collapse simultaneously, down to the very second. The first passer by on the scene is the most senior Nurse in the Armed Services. Fiction devised by individuals entirely devoid of basic scientific knowledge.
It clearly wisnae that deadly or it is a pack of lies. I choose the lies.
DeleteIf there was any doubt left about the dross calling itself Reform UK, Offord has just dispelled it.
ReplyDeleteHuman garbage in, human garbage out.
But Rev Campbell likes them.
DeleteIf there was any remaining doubt about the dross calling itself Reform UK, Offord has just dispelled it.
ReplyDeleteHuman garbage in, human garbage out.
A couple of points about the ATLAS-TASP party:
ReplyDelete1) they are standing in constituencies as well as the list, so jettisoning the ‘we’re just trying to complement the SNP by getting a supermajority on the list’ argument typically put forward by the fringe list parties.
2) I think I read they are standing in 38 constituencies plus the eight regional lists. So that’s £23,000 they’ll have to stump up and will never see again. Who’s bankrolling them? Either someone happy enough to set fire to twenty three grand, or are candidates being made to stump up their own deposits?
And that’s just to cover deposits, before they’ve even spent a penny on campaign material.
Olympic women's sport to be for biological females only. Common sense and science was always going to overcome absurd nonsense.
ReplyDeleteSo once again the SNP ultra fanatic SNP supporting trolls have got it wrong again.
The numpties should try following Sturgeon's advice and think for themselves rather than follow like lemmings any rubbish put forward by politicians. I accept it is difficult for them as they ain't too bright but they could at least try.
You're absolutely correct, Nicola Sturgeon made no interference into trans people and sport, so what the F**** are you on about
DeleteYou're absolutely right, more people should've listened to Nicola Sturgeon and we'd have been independent by now, she was the best we ever had but you and your Tory Reform and Britnat media crew trolled the internet with your anti SNP garbage making up nonsense which is what you're doing now, do one ya wee Tory numpty
DeleteDid ifs just say something good about NS, or am I dreaming? Next he'll be claiming that he's admired her all along.
DeleteHe/she must have loosened their corset.
DeleteThank you anons above for proving my point that you ain't too bright.
Delete8.23 and 8.27 couldn’t even manage to remember a full stop at the end of their sentence. Well done to 8.42 and 9.40 for remembering their full stop.
DeleteMcEleny won't be the last of the Alba/Wings garbage to flit to extreme right wing Reform or Restore's type of Unionism.
ReplyDeleteThat lot are about as much 'Indy Supporters' as Farage and Offal, sorry Offord.