I saw someone on Facebook the other day saying \u201chow hard\u201d it was to be a Nationalist since the General Election result!\u00a0 Some people don\u2019t know what \u201chard\u201d is!\u00a0 The \u201chard stuff\u201d has all been done over many, many years.\u00a0 We are now in the situation, where over half the Scottish population thinks that Independence is inevitable.\u00a0 Compare that to when I first joined the SNP.<\/p>\n
My first General Election was in 1966 \u2013 unfortunately we did not have a candidate running in Ayr (I had to spoil my paper!) and our National share of the vote was 5%.\u00a0 The following year, of course ,we had Winnie\u2019s fabulous victory in Hamilton. But the road remained an uphill struggle for the next 30 years.\u00a0 We had great moments \u2013 Margo and Jim winning Govan, our tally of 11 MP\u2019s in 1974, but what a rocky road it has been. Yes, the General Election result was disappointing, not least for the talented people we have lost at Westminster. But let us put this into perspective. Prior to the creation of the Scottish Parliament, 36 seats would have been a mandate for Independence.<\/p>\n
We did not have a good campaign. It just simply did not get off the ground.\u00a0 We were constantly on the back foot, being\u00a0 on the defensive at every turn. It suited the Unionist media to follow Ruth Davidson\u2019s simplistic slogan \u201cno to Indyref2\u201d. It allowed them to ignore the Westminster Tories disastrous manifesto, to subject SNP spokespeople to ridiculous claims of failure in Education, Health and other Devolved matters.\u00a0 Ruthie got away with murder \u2013 not for her, having to defend her Tory Government \u2013 she simply said \u201cno to Indyref2\u201d and that was it! This \u201cvery cunning plan\u201d got the Tories 13 seats in Scotland and robbed Scotland of proper representation in those seats.\u00a0 However, it won\u2019t happen again \u2013we have reached Tory Max in Scotland.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see how it plays out when Scotland\u2019s Tory MPs troop through the lobbies against the interests of Scotland!<\/p>\n
So where are we at now?\u00a0 Well, unfortunately we are somewhat at the mercy of the mad Brexiteers.\u00a0 With Theresa now a hostage of her own party, the antics of the 3 Dumplings (you know who I mean!!) will have to be monitored and opposed at every turn.\u00a0 Beware, these men are dangerous when let loose!!\u00a0 I was especially disturbed by the utterance from Boris Johnstone that the EU could \u201cwhistle\u201d for any money owed by the UK to the EU. Apart from the idiotic nature of such a comment, my worry is that \u201cgo whistle\u201d will be the manner in which Scotland\u2019s interests will be treated by these boors when it comes to deals to leave the EU. I fear that , among others, our farmers and fishermen had better start learning to whistle as they are sold down the proverbial river!<\/p>\n
The signs were there last week with Liam Fox and his pathetic, begging \u2013bowl Speech in the U.S.\u00a0 He indicated his readiness to undermine Scottish food producers by accepting the much lower standards of food safety allowed\u00a0 in the States. \u00a0This is food that has been rightly banned in the UK for decades. We will, if he has his way, be inundated with hormone fed beef, chlorine-washed chicken and genetically modified foodstuffs at the expense of our quality food of which we have every right to be proud.<\/p>\n
What about the \u201cDumpling-in Chief\u201d \u2013 one David Davis?\u00a0 I think I shall leave this to the words of Dominic Cummings, former special adviser to Michael Gove. Cummings described Davis thus, \u201che is as thick as mince, lazy as a toad and vain as Narcissus\u201d\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why he felt the need to be so subtle!<\/p>\n
However, by far the most worrying thing has been the somewhat muddled announcement from the Tory Government that, in future, the Prime Minister will not hold discussions directly with Scotland\u2019s First Minister.\u00a0 She has delegated that job to our Colonial Governor , one David Mundell! Apart from the absurdity of Nicola, or indeed any Scottish Parliament Ministers, demeaning themselves to have a conversation with this person, this is not about the SNP. Make no mistake, this is an attempt to downgrade the Scottish Parliament.\u00a0 It is an insult to Scotland and the Scottish people \u2013 we must take this as a shot across the bow from Westminster and have no part of it.<\/p>\n
It is at times like this when the going gets tough we must remember that we in Scotland hold the \u201cget out of jail free\u201d card.\u00a0 Independence is our trump card.\u00a0 I am in no doubt that before this Brexit shambles is over, the Independence card will successfully be played.\u00a0 Oh to be free of this so unequal Union!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I saw someone on Facebook the other day saying \u201chow hard\u201d it was to be a Nationalist since the General Election result!\u00a0 Some people don\u2019t know what \u201chard\u201d is!\u00a0 The \u201chard stuff\u201d has all been done over many, many years.\u00a0 We are now in the situation, where over half the Scottish population thinks that Independence is inevitable.\u00a0 Compare that to when I first joined the SNP. My first General Election was in 1966 \u2013 unfortunately we did not have a candidate running in Ayr (I had to spoil my paper!) and our National share of the vote was 5%.\u00a0 The following year, of course ,weRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}