My take on 2021 ( I’m not cheery )

Well this year has been a year of real change for myself personally, and overall not in a good way. I have started to confront myself in many ways as those of you who read this blog will know, I made some positive physical changes that have been good for me in some ways, losing five stones in weight in 6 months, but I also saw changes in my personal life that are very difficult to accept and has resulted in some personal hurt that will take some time to get past, that is a work in progress and will be for a long time. A relationship came to an end that I am mostly responsible for, my mental health neglect being the catalyst, and much of the reason that this came about, and something that I am now trying to work through, too late to make a difference to that relationship but something that will have profound effects on future ones if I don’t deal with those issues now, so I am, and I apologize for the tone of this blog so you might not want to read the rest of it lol as it’s not positive. When your heart gets broken it is going to take time to pick yourself up and breath again, that is where I am at right now, broken and tired. So again sorry for the tone of this final blog of the year from myself.

This year saw the end of Wings Over Scotland, a much missed analysis of Scottish politics but the reasons for the end are fair enough. However we did also see the rise of new media to do it’s best to fill the gap. While new media does not have the resources that were available to Wings it has shown the creativity of those who put a lot of time, personal money, and effort into keeping the independence cause alive and kicking. Stuart Campbell, as I said, is missed and his impact can never be forgotten but the new media bloggers for myself are more important, in the main self-taught, motivated, insightful, careful, funny, positive and even in the dark days of a Scottish Government Police State keep going because they believe in the return of all sovereignty to Scotland. We need to thank them and support them as much as we can.

 

 

 

We saw the disgrace that was the Alex Salmond enquiry, we saw the SNP Government allow the arms of the state be used to not only cover up injustice and be found to mislead, or try to, we also saw civil servants being economical with the truth to a level that brought shame on Scotland, we saw Police Scotland become the personal force of the Scottish Government. The result of this was the malicious prosecution of several prominent yes supporters and the shameful imprisonment of Craig Murray that demonstrated that our Courts, our Judges, our Police, and our politicians cannot be trusted to do what is right. Without the support of the wider yes community financially I have no doubt that some of those people would have also went to prison as they just would not have had the legal support they required to defend them.

We learned that Nicola Sturgeon and her (husband) have difficulties remembering facts, we learned they didn’t know, were not aware, weren’t there. We learned that Nicola Sturgeon places more emphasis on some men wanting to access women’s safe space and this is more important than the cause of independence no matter what the public think. We saw Nicola Sturgeon use a public health emergency to continue to question the innocent verdict in the Alex Salmond case, the shameful complicity of the so called Scottish Media to the extent that an innocent man has seen his reputation and legacy tarnished for all time, an injustice that will forever taint Nicola Sturgeon and will result in her going down in history in the same way that Tony Blair did.

We saw the SNP win yet another election and some how manage to make Scottish independence even more of a distant dream than it was in 2014. We learned that we have a First Minster who has no interest in independence other than her own personal gain and the occasional selfie, we learned that while she can present information to the public her skills are sadly lacking in pretty much every area of government from bad policy to the unforgivable management in the Covid-19 crisis to the extent that people may have died who did not have to due to poor policy and management of the crisis, but hey ho the sheeple love her and will vote for her. We saw the potential that used to be The National become the Nicola Sturgeon fanzine with non stop Duke of York Headlines and I am now at the point that the sooner the charlatan that is Nicola Sturgeon is no longer First Minister the better.

We saw the Alba Party formed and while the road will be long to become an established party in the minds of the voters they are already holding the SNP to account and without them independence would not even be discussed in the new Scotland. We saw the continued corruption of the English Tory Government , a Government who have no issue with stabbing us in the front, they don’t even hide their corruption any more because they know English voters will vote for them, the media won’t challenge them, and they can pretty much do what they want fronted by the liar that is Boris Johnson, an inept clueless politician who is in a position that makes the UK a laughing stock all over the world, a failed state and a banana republic in all but name.

So as far as I am concerned 2021 can fucking do one, it has been a shit year in every single way for myself with nothing to be happy about or to be proud of in any shape or form. I would normally hope and believe that the new year will bring about change but I don’t and I don’t apologise for that at all. I think it will be as shit as this year has been and I always hate January anyway. I have no grounds for optimism and I am not going to pretend that I do, I am being honest with myself and if I am not in a good place and people ask, well they will get a truthful answer, I am beyond saying I am fine any more when I am not, I am beyond saying I am hopeful when I am not. Independence is further away than it has ever been because of the SNP and the politically illiterate in Scotland, I am not in a good place personally and that will get worse before it gets better and that is the only glimmer of hope for myself, that it will get better for me personally but I will take it a day at a time.

I do wish everyone a restful Christmas though and I do apologise for the tone of this final blog for 2021, I wish it could be uplifting, insightful, hopeful but I am not in that place personally and I don’t think Scotland is either but I am not giving up, not yet anyway, and will keep doing what I can next year with the blog and with my own personal development.