Comment : If this happens

I was chatting to a friend last night and said to him that ” I bet they still don’t publish the evidence “. Should that scenario come about today or over the weekend then I would hope/expect all of the other members of the committee to resign immediately from the process, I would expect Alex Salmond to refuse to attend and give evidence, I would hope that the decent members of the Scottish Parliament (if there are any) would demand a judge led enquiry and I would hope that many of us would sit up and think about what we believe in, our moral compass, the truth, justice. Should the scenario that Stuart Campbell thinks could happen happen then we are facing the biggest crisis in our Parliament and Government since 1999 when it came into being.

We cannot build a new Scotland based on corruption, deceit, and lies. Devolution is not enough, many of us know that, but how do we move forward supporting a party whose leadership are corrupt to their core, that they will deny truth, that they will deny honesty to protect what will be clear for the world to see is corruption at the highest level, corruption that would even make a Tory Politician blush. I have made no secret that this whole affair disgusts me, from the claims that took Alex Salmond to court that a jury rejected as not believable, to the court protecting the accusers when there is an argument to suggest maybe the testimony should be getting investigated. To the Crown Persecution Service, Police Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, Peter Murrell, Linda Fabiani, Lesley Evans, maybe it is time for an independent investigation into the whole affair by another Police Force, another Crown Prosecution Service.

I never expect all that much from our politicians these days, being 52 years old I have learned that very few of them are decent people there for the right reasons. When all we ask for in our politicians is honesty and integrity, when we want them to find common ground to make Scotland a better place we get tribal warfare, incompetence, lies, vested interests and the people who lose the most are the most vulnerable in our country or the many of us who just want a chance, the chance of a better life, the idea that the state is there to make our lives that bit better, our laws just, our policy that reflects the Scotland we want to live in.

Our Government, and many of our politicians, have corrupted our Parliament and they have corrupted their own party. They have taken the view that the views of basically the trans lobby, of people who were found to be unbelievable in a Court out weigh the views of the rest of us. We see members of a Government, and Andy Wightman, deciding that we are not smart enough to decide for ourselves what the truth is as they strive to protect a First Minister, a Civil Service that on the face of it look corrupt beyond measure, who appear to many to have lied under oath or in our parliament to both protect themselves and to potentially send an innocent man to jail.

Can we support that? If you ignore that because only independence matters at any cost are you a part of the problem? Is your devotion to Nicola Sturgeon, a First Minster who has not taken us closer to independence in any shape or form, enough for you to accept lies and corruption? If you are willing to set aside all that we know, all that we have heard, all that we read, all that many of us believe are the basics we deserve from our Parliament and our Politicians then we maybe don’t deserve to be independent because these people are the worst foundation to build it on, the worst possible people to trust to build that fairer Scotland many of us strive for.

I have a dilemma with my constituency vote in May, not my list vote but I have decided this morning that if the SNP members, with the help of Andy Wightman, deny us the opportunity to get some sort of truth, then I cannot see myself voting SNP and risk keeping in power some of the very people who disgust me, whom I don’t trust. I know I will be called a unionist, that I was never an SNP voter, that I don’t really want independence, that I am a plant, a troll. I can live with that because I have to live with myself and when I tell my 13 year old to always tell the truth, the same as I told my oldest children, am I saying to them but only the truth if it doesn’t harm you or doesn’t stop you getting to where you want to get to, no I don’t think I can do that.

Not voting SNP in May will be one of the hardest decisions that I might ever have to make but given where we are now I can’t see that I might have any other choice because as I have said, these people disgust me to the pit of my stomach and I don’t want Sturgeon, Wishart, Blackman, Robertson, Dornan, Fabiani, Smith, Blackford, Yusuf, Swinney having any say in my future because all they care about is their own futures, their little minority cult of trans lobbyist’s and protecting people who may have lied to put an innocent man in jail, how can anyone support that.

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