A little while ago in a post\non this blog, I recalled the words of the late, great Margaret Ewing that she\nknew when \u201cScotland would win Independence when the people started to march for\nit\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The recent march in\nGalashiels however suggests to me that we may well now know when the forces of\nUnionism also know when Scotland will win Independence; when they resort to\nunthinking violence. Whoever the numpty or numpties were who decided that spreading\nscrews and nails across the road on the route of the YES bikers has\ndemonstrated that they are rapidly running out of arguments and we are about to\nenter not Churchill\u2019s end of the beginning but the beginning of the endgame in\nthe fight to make Scotland a normal independent country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nfact that this horrendous incident also went virtually unremarked in the\nmainstream media shows the level of control exerted across Scotland\u2019s newsrooms\nby their London masters. Only The National gave it the level of coverage and\ncondemnation so richly deserved. It highlighted yet again why we need to follow\nthe simple mantra with our only friendly daily newspaper; buy it, read it, pass\nit on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just recall the level of\nhysteria when Jim Murphy was hit by an egg! Oh, aye, throwing an egg by one\nindy supporter is not exactly constructive but was it really worse than\nthrowing milk shakes which the media treated as a joke? Yet a deliberate action\nwhich could have resulted in serious injury or even a fatality goes almost\nunremarked! Sic a parcel o\u2019 rogues in our newsrooms! The silence of the\neditorial lambs is deafening just as it was when another unionist idiot once\ntried to force Alex Salmond\u2019s official car off the road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a different tack, I was\nlucky enough to attend a public meeting held by Ian Blackford in Dingwall last\nweek. Ian was, as you would expect, excellent. Fresh from the stooshie he\ncaused by labelling Boris Johnson as a racist he was in fine form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what struck me most was\nthe questions and comments from the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several times people were\nmore than happy to begin their remarks with a thank you for the work on\nindividual cases, none more so than Gregg Brain who made a moving contribution\nhighlighting the fight to allow him and his family to stay in Scotland when the\nUK Government retrospectively changed the rules! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One speaker however gave me\nsomething new to think about. He highlighted that although he had recently\nmoved with his family from the South of England to live in the highlands, he\nstill worked in the City of London. One heck of a commute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But he had come home in part\nbecause of the quality of education available here for his family, a far cry\nfrom the slavering hysteria from wee ruthie and silly rennie. But it was his\ncomments about how the firms, especially the small ones in the City were\nlooking at Scotland as the place to relocate to if the insanity of Brexit ever\nactually happens which struck me. He told us how although the major financial\nplayers were buying office space in Frankfurt etc in preparation, the smaller\ncompanies were casting eyes north of the border where the relocation would be\nmuch easier. No language problems, similar education systems and ease of travel\nwere among the reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are firms who are\nlooking to make serious investments in building infrastructure and industry.\nSomething we will need after Independence because of the major shortfall in\ninvestment caused by austerity and deliberate UK Government policies in power\nand money grabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s easy to think of the\nCity as a place which holds nothing positive for the Nationalist movement but\nwe just might be very seriously wrong in that. Just as minds are being changed\nin Scotland daily towards Independence, it seems that others are looking at the\nleadership and stability provided by the Scottish Government and starting to\nplan how to help us and themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Times, as they say, are a\nchanging!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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