A new political organisation has been born. Apparently, the aim is to bring together people who don\u2019t like to belong to a political party, to discuss, debate, form policies and field list candidates. Lifted from the about section of their facebook page \u2018The Alliance for Independence was created to give YES, Indy groups and individuals a voice in Scotland’s parliament and to remove as many non indy msp’s as possible.\u2019 They wish to attract all small bands of independence supporters and YES groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My take on the reason there are so many small groups of independence supporters is because they all can\u2019t get on together. In some cases there are too many chiefs and not enough Indians, to use an old saying. Now I am not a number cruncher. People start throwing numbers about and my head
goes dizzy. They appear to have convinced themselves that the voters can be persuaded to vote one for SNP to govern and vote 2 for another pro-independence candidates in order to reduce the amount of unionist MSPs. Fine and dandy, BUT I have experienced how crazy the voters out there
are. They have some weirdly wired reasons for the way they vote. What about the natural tory, labour and lib dem voters that loan the SNP their first vote? Will they toe the line or will they vote for the candidate of their natural views to make sure the policies they like in that party will be
heard? If the alliance organisation get MSPs elected and they have no party structure, how is that going to work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the unique times that we have faced these past few months the Scottish Government have had to prove their worth. They have worked their socks off. They have not done everything as it should be, at the right time. No country’s government has. There was no route map for this, there was no
practise run. Everyone has had to learn on the job. As everything has been recorded and details of each step published, when this has settled down, what happened when and why can be scrutinised and learned from. This is how strategies are developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am sick to death of people who won\u2019t be held to account taking wild swipes at the government and their advisers. Other countries are looking at the UK and remarking how much better the devolved nations are managing this pandemic. I am also getting thoroughly scunnered of Boris\u2019s team
announcing things after Nicola\u2019s team have. As for the latest \u2018if you are obese you will suffer more with covid\u2019 message , what is that all about? Wasn\u2019t it put far better by our team when we were encouraged in the daily briefings to keep active, walk or cycle if we can and eat well? Wasn\u2019t that a more pleasant way to impose the importance of looking after ourselves?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A new political organisation has been born. Apparently, the aim is to bring together people who don\u2019t like to belong to a political party, to discuss, debate, form policies and field list candidates. Lifted from the about section of their facebook page \u2018The Alliance for Independence was created to give YES, Indy groups and individuals a voice in Scotland’s parliament and to remove as many non indy msp’s as possible.\u2019 They wish to attract all small bands of independence supporters and YES groups. My take on the reason there are so many small groups of independence supporters is because they all can\u2019t get on together.Read More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}