Much has been written the last 24 hours about devo max and it just shows as far as I am concerned that we are a colony of cowards in the main, governed by cowards. How much more are we going to take? How much more poverty, how much more unemployment, homelessness? How many more food banks have to open?
A coward is a person who is contemptibly lacking in the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things.
A quisling is a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist.
Scotland sadly has too many of both now in our voting public and our elected representatives, and I make no apology for using those words. We are sitting here today discussing devo-max and thankfully some are rejecting the idea but far too many are willing to consider it as a possibility, cowards. It’s the Ian Blackford approach to the Scottish Question and just as big a potential betrayal as the one in 1707, when is enough enough.
How many hills will we be marched up, how many mandates will we give the SNP and the First Minister? When do we stand up and be counted? Scotland has rejected Tory colonial rule in every election since 1955 and where are we today. How many times are we going to give Labour the benefit of the doubt and how many times are we now going to give that same benefit of the doubt to the SNP? When is enough enough?
Where are our political warriors? We sent them in strength to London to settle up and what did we get? We get settled in and comfy, we get cowards, we get betrayal, we get shafted again and again and when we complain, when we challenge, when we fight back against the very people we elected to defend us we get called cyber nats, we get called QAnon, we get called right wing conservatives, we get told we are the new right.
R.B. Cunninghame Graham, founder of the Scottish Labour Party, and the Scottish National Party wasn’t wrong was he. The enemy is not the votes of the English electorate, it is not even the English Tories, they are doing what they were elected to do, look after the rights of their constituents. What do we get from ours, we get a four nation approach, we get never ending platitudes from the likes of Blackford, we get marched up the hill again and again while being asked for one more mandate, until we get asked for the next one, 1707 all over again.
So the question is when is enough enough? Will we use the council elections to send a very strong message to Sturgeon and her sycophants? Will we meekly give in again or will we vote for alternative yes parties in our communities, a vote for Alba or ISP. The more I reflect on where we are the more pissed off I get, the more frustrated I get. While I do believe that we wouldn’t win any referendum right now due to the total lack of preparation it is now time for the SNP to get that process started with public meetings, discussions, not Mike Russell sitting in a shabby second hand horse box for a miniature highland pony.
The referendum legislation needs to be in Holyrood NOW, it needs debated, and it needs passed if that is the strategy that Sturgeon is foolishly sticking to. A date needs to be set and the work begin on the offer to the people of Scotland, we need to be out on the streets. We need to show the Tories and the unionists that we mean business, we need action from the SNP or we need to elect politicians who will act, not middle class Scots who are far too comfortable in their offices while the rest of us go hungry and cold, enough.
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There’s a simple and sadly more pathetic explanation. We’re governed by managers who only know how to work with what they’ve been given. Initiative, leadership, determination are nowhere to be found. Take the bottle deposit scheme. It should be simple enough to strong-arm the suppliers of sugared beverages into accepting it but they can’t manage even that. What do you think is going to happen when the important decisions come along.
Stuart
You are not wrong, they totally lack imagination and initiative in every area but they are betraying us now and are just as bad as those that sold Scotland out 400 years ago. I really think if we don’t move soon then it is over as far as indy goes, things will not stay this bad for long, the Tories will find someone less disgusting to their core vote and could recover enough to win another vote. Time is running out I think.
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Bruce
Do they not say, you get the politicians you deserve?
If so, you’re asking the right questions. Many of us have already rejected the New SNP or at least seeing they’re not particularly new and have been with us since 2015. The scales have fallen from our eyes.
I sadly doubt the cultists will ever realise that all along, Sturgeons ‘secret plan’ has never been Independence but to keep us wedded to this damniable union.
All we can do is vote Alba in May and soldier on.
Nally
She certainly gives the impression that she is happy with the current state of affairs and is not willing to say it, I think she would get more from people if she was just honest but we are probably past all of that now. They need to get the finger out but they won’t will they, they are cowards, too afraid to move forward because they are too afraid to lose a vote on independence so we might as well just give up. It just pisses me off more and more.
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Bruce
The only risk of independence will be the consequences of not achieving it. If Scotland doesn’t become independent then it will suffer the ongoing relentless decline that the UK has experienced over the past 100 years. That is just a simple fact based on the economic evidence that in itself is simply the result of a British ‘elite’ that want to continue living in the past and it doesn’t matter who replaces Johnson or which UK party is elected, the UK’s continued decline is inevitable and unavoidable. Make no mistake, the UK is heading for a very dark place. But Scotland being dragged down as part of the UK it isn’t inevitable, as others can clearly see. We just need voters and politicians that will make it avoidable as well.
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Ian
Totally agree, we are in decline now where Tory policy is forced on us by events, it just takes a little longer to reach us but look at the rises in tax through the freezing of bands, council tax to rise this year, Westminster NI increase, inflation near 6%. We have nothing to lose now and everything to gain but the SNP are cowards, too afraid to act while enjoying a life style that most of us can only dream about, I have had with them full stop and will call them what they are, cowards and quislings, end of.
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Bruce
We have too much resources for the english government not to have nobbled the very least of our insubstantial tartan bags of shite. What’s the answer to that? I’m surprised that talk is still of what are the Bags of Shite Party going to do. I think they will salute, bow and curtsy until their noses bleed. While we can only watch our quislings do their nest feathering duties as the No voting Scottish public breathe a sigh of relief that the Union stands, along with their penurious pensions, the depreciating pound, low wages and a poverty-stricken welfare state.
Rab
You’re not wrong, I am sick of the lot of them and those who vote for them, they are equally to blame now for the cowards doing nothing while enjoying a life that the rest of can only dream about.
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Bruce
On cowardice 300+ years of oppressive colonialism will do that to a population, however Scotland has its fair share of House Jocks, and gatekeepers parachuted in from down South to prominent positions within Scotland.
On independence, there’s no route to it that leads through London, what we need is a plebiscitary election, many Scots wanted Sturgeon to use May 2021’s elections as a plebiscitary one but she blanked us, we must compel her to use the next one whenever it is as a plebiscitary election.
RoS
Plebiscite would be my preference but Sturgeon is hell bent on sticking to the stupidity of a referendum that she has done nothing to prepare for and that the English Government will refuse anyway and that will lead to years of court and a loss in court at the end. House jocks, that is a good description of them for sure.
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Bruce
Sturgeon has her excuse not to do anything about Independence for now and the near future, covid .
Pauline
Yip, that will be the one.
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Bruce