As Mariko said, in Shogun, ‘Once loyalty begins it does not have an end…otherwise it would not be loyalty.’
I think that even the most informed of us have actually no real idea how comprehensively Scotland is sewn up.
If you want a picture of the SNP’s future, imagine Murray Foote stamping on independence — forever.
Foote exemplifies the FAUX independence party’s last 10 years , ONE LARGE GRIFT, of gullible, dreaming, ordinary people, a party of CON ARTISTS deliberately and willfully LYING and promising to make people’s lives better through independence
What makes it even more despicable is that INDEPENDENCE was there for the taking, ONLY having to use THE TRUTH, that the tories and Labour were openly corrupt and grossly incompetent as Brexshit illustrated followed by the debacle of Covid and the massive corruption that followed
BUT NO, instead sturgeon and her troupe of deviants and perverts set out instead to SABOTAGE any possible movement for independence by FORCING divisive and vile policies on the electorate and handing ALL POWER to england’s supreme court
Colonial Foote on head. Sturgeon lauded him, as directed by her handlers. We were stitched up at least twice, shame on us. Now, as England burns, the rats are all deserting the sinking ship, at least one off to Pakistan, or other bastions of true democracy. Meanwhile, the rape and pillage of our Scottish resources continues, and Labour strips all our benefits away – the most helpless and vulnerable first. Ye couldnae write it.
5 names that I will be glad to never hear of ever again, those 5 names are the biggest betrayers of Scotland’s independence.
1) Nicola Sturgeon
2) Gordon Brown
3) Blair McDougall
4) Murray Foote
5) Johann Lamont and all Scottish Labour leaders.
Why no Alistair Darling? He’s an Englishman so therefore can’t be accused of betraying Scotland even though he was the face of the NO campaign.
Foote (The Vow) gaining a position as press secretary (or suchlike title) then CEO of the SNP and all my worst fears over the SNPs fall from grace solidified.
Glad I bucked a 4 plus decades habit and didn’t vote for them at the GE, I won’t be either on the next ones as I think they are fatally flawed now and beyond redemption.
Gives me no joy to say it.
Independence however is not beyond redemption, the movement is not beyond redemption, the political party that was supposed to achieve it is.
SNP; you are bankrupt in so many ways now; Move over and give someone else a go or the movement needs to back another approach, the political table is irredeemably loaded against us.
A reasonable person might conclude he is a grifting liar.
That he, of all people, is the CEO of the SNP tells me one thing, that I am entirely correct in thinking that the SNP is a sham. Only under Salmond did they actually try to gain independence, the rest of the time, they just talked about it.
I now believe the SNP is nothing more than a ‘lighning rod’ for pro indy sentiment. A focus for Scots who want independence. Under London control, always aiming for independence, but NEVER, EVER actually going for it.
This is how colonisers work. Make a focal point for independence supporters, that ultimately you control. It keeps them busy achieving nothing, and lets you KNOW who the really important people are.
Slightly related, is anybody else on here sick and fed up with the fact that almost every single major public role in Scotland now has an English person in charge? I lose count of how many times I see documentaries or news items of say a public charity or a museum or an arts body, and I say to myself before they even speak, ‘I bet they are English’, and, sure enough, I am usually right. It is NOT an accident.
THAT needs sorted. No other country in the world simply sits back and allows folk from one other country (England, which by and large despises our history, culture and languages) to take over their culture their history, their public bodies in this way.
The other trick that has been going on for many decades, is the removal of the word Scotland from any discourse and official titles. Either it gets changed to ‘royal’, or the name gets abbreviated, thereby ensuring the word Scotland never gets used. In their (appalling, parochial) olympic coverage, the BBC have been almost tripping over themselves, to never say Scotland. Instead they say ‘from Edinburgh’, or ‘from Aberdeen’ or similar. NEVER, EVER Scotland. Just sick of it. SSSh!, dinnae mention Scotland.
This all IS something the Scottish government can change, and it needs done ASAP. Maybe they really just don’t care anymore.
Nu SNP * MEMBER*SHIP – ” Our ( lol ) Nikla is the direct heir of Robert The Bruce – if the latter had read The Second Sex . YEAH !
Yousaf Islam ( wait….y’mean like Cat Stevens ? Aye , that too ) is Gandhi + MLK n is gonna Rock The WM Casbah . YEAH !
John Swinney is ………………….selflessly taking time out from his successful Undertaking business to , erm ….increase his already substantial salary/pension ? Shut it , ya bigot ! John is ……ok we’re not exactly sure what John is doing , but …YEAH !
Murray Fitt is the most committed Independence supporter that ever stalked the Earth . How dae ye know ? He said so . YEAH !
Alex Salmond ( boooooo ) the guy who actually presided over a ScotGov that was competent , won people over to supporting Independence and brought about a Referendum on that issue is the spawn of Beelzebub . YEAH ! I mean BOO !
What if he gets elected to Holyrood and starts making progress towards achieving Independence ?
YEAHBOOYEAHYEAHYEAHBOOHOOHOOYEAH . Fck …can someone tell us what to think please ?
Also i see the BBC launching a programme on the relationship between Sturgeon and Salmond. I wonder if Kirsty Wark and Dannie Garvellie will be in it.
Good one BBC, my sides are hurting
For anyone watching, if the BBC support you you can only be working against independence.
Nicola Sturgeon saying she’s not comfortable with the word ‘national’ in the SNP’s name.
Humza Yousaf saying he’s not comfortable with the word ‘national’ in the SNP’s name. (What a strange coincidence).
John Swinney saying independence must be achieved legally.
Stephen Flynn saying Westminster is sovereign.
Angus Robertson saying the BBC should be kept on after independence.
Do these people seem credible independence supporters?
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Looks like the English propaganda machine (BBC) – will air another Salmond smearing documentary – a two-parter this time – just incase you don’t get the message (Salmond bad) in the first part.
I wonder if those two-odious shits Kirsty Wark and Sally Magnusson will appear in them.
“A new documentary series will examine how Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon built the SNP into an election-winning machine before later falling out.
BBC Scotland today announced Salmond and Sturgeon: A Troubled Union will be broadcast in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the 2014 referendum on independence.”
The Record was always one of the largest blocks to independence. At its height it had the second largest percentage readership of any newspaper in the world. It used its colossal power during the 70s, 80s and 90s to strangle any attempts for the Scottish people to move forward to nationhood.
Over the years the Record was always on the unionist side, and the 1989 Glasgow Central by-election was swung in Labour’s favour at the last minute by one of their headlines. When people complained to the party about this they were fobbed off, and told they could not react against a national newspaper.
Our YSN group took matters into our own hands by organising a ‘Real Scots Dump The Record’ demo only to be threatened with expulsion from the party by Alison Hunter (always be careful of those who spent a lot of time down south). Our organisation was then dismantled from within and those same folk went on to dismantle the SNP itself.
The fact that Murray Foote has such a prominent role in the NUSNP speaks volumes. In the same way the Labour Party became Blair (not the other way around), the NUSNP has become Foote.
Game over player one.
Our problem is not Murray Foote!
It’s not the chancers and nest-feathering incompetents in the SNP.
The problem is our friends, neighbours and ‘countrymen’ who go about their days, blind to the reality of what’s been happening for (more than just) the past decade! They are the ones who put these people there. They are the ones who continue to ignore the wood for the trees.
Yes, they are spoon fed a diet of lies from all corners, but they still opt to accept the spoon rather than fend for themselves.
They don’t want to hear the truth. It has caused arguments in my close family and disagreement with close friends. They see no other avenue to further the cause and they see me providing a road block to that avenue.
I read a piece in the Telegraph today (I was pointed to it on-line before anyone thinks I’d buy any rag) about how Barnett means English tax payers are subsidising Scottish prescriptions and education. It makes me weep and has actually forced me to take a step back from activism in order to remain (slightly) sane.
My last ‘political outing’ was to park my motorcycle directly outside the door of Bute House and take part in a demonstration against Nicola Sturgeon’s continued residence there. As a ‘Yes Biker’, I’d hoped that there may have been others from that specific group there, but alas, no!
Somebody can maybe offer to waken me up when the other 80% of the independence minded polity actually waken up and smell the coffee too….
anglo brain –
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/477385928#p477389725
– it’s good to really get to know people, what they honestly think, so you can know for sure what nasty little bastards they really are
– and it’s universal, give these guys an education and a job in the city, they think just the same, but use more polysyllabic words to express it; anglos, whether its greggs and poundstretcher or harrods and gieves and hawkes, it’s all the same. Anglo exceptionalist narcissism as national character and worship of the mythic past (empire) as state religion.
the worst place ever is not 4chan, more like the comments at the telegraph. Vicious stuff. Jocks back in their boxes. All that.
trumpton riots, musings
Having fun is also part of it; since policing and pervasive cctv has almost eliminated football hooliganism, things have been a bit boring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvG3is7Bm1w
I think everyone should fight the police at least once before they die. Or a nice standoff, on your roof, stripped to the waist, wielding improvised weapons. Don’t pay that fucking council tax, last week they never emptied the bins coz it “had the wrong rubbish” in it. Cunts. They’ve crossed the line, and no mistake.
there is a global lack of meaning, of spiritual emptiness, and what presents is a desire to wage conflict against – whatever it is out there – that is causing this vacuum; you want it to kick off – see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaSVqgGrBVg
– classic scott walker … a song about torture, oddly.
just think how powerful the anglo rioters would have been if they still had their XL Bullies. If they want to really bring it to a head (chop), they could burn a few korans. That never gets old. We need to get the trannies involved, half of them are nonces. I reckon any planned pride marches have been postponed, which is nice.
If this goes on long enough the tactics will evolve – shieldwalls, phalanx, testudo, schiltroms, attack dog squadrons, cavalry on mopeds and quads. We shall see drones, squad leaders, battlefield commanders, can they get secure comms, will we see chess like strategies?
Rioting should be an olympic event.
“gold for team GB”
Errrr….at the risk of a pile-on.
Comment above about ridding Scotland of the Tory party.
Disagree. The Scottish people must have representation whatever their political views. Those who want to preserve the union, likewise.
Our job is not to silence them but to generate the momentum to overcome their opposition through sound reasoning, evidence, and the demonstration of good governance.
Remember that it was only the Tartan Tories who opposed the gender reform debacle.
It was only Davied Davies who had the gravitas, integrity and guts to expose the Sturgeon cabal and their depraved actions against AS.
Russell Findlay is someone I respect despite his unionist views and we need more people like him across the political spectrum.
What is so despicable is not overt political conservativism but the behind the scenes operations of Sturgeon/Swinney and the civil service. Their corruption of the political and judicial systems has shamed this once-proud nation.
I am all for pluralism even if it means that we have a fight on our hands. The sense now is that that the fight has been lost on an uneven battle-ground where Sturgeon’s Trojan horse is still dropping its turds.
If MF had a living Granny I suspect he’d be only too willing to sell her for glue, if the price were right.
In saying that, his employment by Sturgeon’s rancid SNP is on closer inspection a most appropriate marriage of convenience, which shouldn’t cause any true supporter of Independence to twitch so much as an eyelid in surprise.
For the avoidance of doubt, the term “true supporter of Independence” does not apply to members of that ever decreasing herd who pledge blind allegiance to all things SNP.
A quick peek at Scot Goes Pop or Wee Ginger Fud’s BTL will find them grazing quietly, making calming noises about Swinney being “the man for the job” in order to reassure each other that the abattoir lorry won’t be pulling into the yard some 21 months hence…
“Mint sauce!”
One wonders what the percentage of professors at Scottish universities – are actually Scottish.
“The number of international students studying at Scotland’s universities rose to a record high in the 2022-2023 academic year.
Overseas students made up nearly 29% of the total, with their tuition fees providing an important source of funding for universities.
The biggest proportion by far continued to come from China – nearly 20,000 students – but thousands more came from India, Nigeria and the United States.
The number of Scottish students, who benefit from free undergraduate tuition, was down by about 10,000.”
Scotland is missing out on the rioting. We need to start our own.
Proposal : riot #1 against the Anglo takeover of the highlands, galloway and other nice bits.
– the first pogrom can take place at House of Bruar, with SUVs getting their tyres slashed and keys thrown in the river.
we can mock their accents and call them “cockneys”, that will send them ho – ome -ward, tae think again …
roadblocks and burning tyres all down the NC500, fortnum and masons hampers looted
once more, more seriously, with numbers; the ONS projection for 2030 is a 10% rise in UK population from legal migration (ONS are not far right conspiricists), which is 7M people, about another London. Suppose we take 700K – that’s more non-scots, another glasgow, and all of them “BAMS”. But also, suppose 5M end up in the south east, its going to be really shit down there and what will happen then? – anyone with money will hightail it to “whiter” areas, up “north”, ON THE RUN FROM THEIR “BAMS” (er, “quality of life”), and this could be, what … guessing here – say 2M of these southerners, all viciously bigoted little englanders and anglo supremacists who think they can come up here, buy it all up, and restore “the days of the raj” to live in their merchant ivory wank fantasy in edinburgh/highlands/borders/galloway. “make the case for indy to the soft noes?” It could even be worse than this given the south east has a serious flooding problem that they have no solution for.
2030 is not long away now, by the time the devo gradualists have got their arses in gear do you think you will have a country left worth living in?
Let’s get back to our reservations, bags first huff on the petrol.
TURABDIN @ 9:36 am
“…….much of Britain is poor. The country ranks above only New Zealand on both GDP per capita and disposable household income per capita.”
Correct, and the contrast in GDP-per-capita between Scotland and our nearest independent Nordic and Celtic neighbours demonstrates the price of our colonialism, which is at least £150 billion per annum. That is why we are much like a less developed country, we do not have access to our own resources, land, assets, utilities etc.
£150 bn is almost three times the Holyrood colonial administration’s annual budget, a good proportion of which is spent on ‘colonial functionaries’. This is the cost of the so-called UK ‘Union’ for Scots. Swinney should be shouting it from the rooftops, but he and the national party elite have become ‘part of the colonial racket’, as per postcolonial theory.
Very sad Iain was indy through and through – he’ll be sorely missed.
“TRIBUTES have been paid to the significant Scottish independence campaigner Iain Lawson who has died.
The former SNP man fought for Scotland’s independence cause for half a century and showed unswerving loyalty to the country’s steel industry.
Lawson has been described as a “warrior for independence” and “was a giant of the National movement” during the 80s and 90s as his successful business career helped the SNP form a sound financial footing as a party.”
Republicofscotland
Ignored
says:
10 August, 2024 at 11:04 am
Very sad Iain was indy through and through – he’ll be sorely missed.
“TRIBUTES have been paid to the significant Scottish independence campaigner Iain Lawson who has died.
Yeah, I wasn’t expecting to hear this news… Another stalwart falls waiting for Independence to be delivered.
Curious there’s so little reference to SALVO and Liberation, where Iain’s absence will be profound.
A very sad day.
Iain will certainly be missed. When he started his blog, it was very much a breath of fresh air, which touched on a lot of the issues that affected working Scots, even if they were self-employed, and slightly better off than many.
Yours for Scotland moved into the top 5 on https://www.voices.scot/ pretty much immediately and stayed there. Interestingly, Iain’s blog looked east, to Scotland’s connections around the Baltic, rather than west. For me, Pete Young’s, Letter from Denmark, was the highlight, showing how a small country could stand on its own two feet. Iain very much showed we could make our own way in the world, rather than sitting on the coat-tails of others.
PS I’ve started archiving Yours for Scotland, using archive.is, since we can’t be sure it will stay around forever. I started with the latest post, and will work back from there. If anyone else wants to help out, start at the beginning, or with the start of a year, or month and we’ll meet up in the middle somewhere. I’ll add all the archived links to voices.scot so even if the blog disappears there’ll be some kind of index available. The blog should also be archived to the wayback machine – though that’s a little harder to do.
Breeks.
Iain Lawson, the chair of the Scottish National Congress Steering Committee – he was heavily involved with Salvo – work was going on in the background on something important – I’m always extremely suspicious when someone suddenly passes away – who is/was involved in the liberation of Scotland – Iain is a big loss to Scotland – and many Scots don’t even realise it.
Like others I am saddened by Iain Lawsons passing and I send my heartfelt condolences to his family, Iain’s website was a bonus to genuine supporters of independence and to supporters and members of SALVO , SSRG ,and Liberation.Scot his contribution to the indy movement will be sadly missed
RIP Iain
Spot on Stu.
The SNP won’t ever deviate from their disastrous course until they are totally wiped out at Holyrood in 2026.
Only then have we any chance of furthering out cause.
Sad but relevant that the image of ‘The Craig’ being destroyed is in the blog, one of Iain Lawson’s hardest battles was trying to keep it open.
What is worse is that in holyrood, because of dhondt, what the SNP lose on the constituency they will gain back on the list; the gravy bus continues.
The middle class pulled the handbrake hard on the independence wagon, just as it was getting up to speed – “this far and no more” (and replaced it with the ugly diversions of their new found religion – woke-puritanism); think of all the extra layers of bureaucracy, and sweet jobs, the parliament and attending infrastructure need, which is great, but actually going for indy is much too dangerous; actually taking on the British state – you might get your head kicked in, and even if you win, then you have to create a new country – are you up to it? Looking at the mediocrity of holyrood, I doubt it.
And the whole of Edinburgh is “doing really well” anyway (if you can ignore the fact it’s a building site, impassable by car) because of the “trickle down” economics being pursued. It’s like being inside the castle walls in the middle ages, there is protection and more wealth and comfort than being some poor peasant, out in the fields, never mind a hunted rebel in the forest. Edinburgh has been removed from Scotland, it connects via wormhole to the London-Oxford-Cambridge “golden triangle”.
The numbers are bad for us, demographics I mean. It has to move to a different phase, or just die entirely.
They disgust me, the middle class fake nats – right now everyone is having a massive virtue signalling circle wank about fascism and “the far right”, about which they understand nothing.
.Mark Twain said : “It’s Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.”
That people continued voting Labour for close on 100 yrs after it became clear that they were not the vehicle that was going to transfer power and wealth from the Haves to the Have Nots and have continued to do so 20 odd years after they deleted their intention to just that, from their constitution. – Is proof enough that he was right.
Your the SNP are Chocolate Tea Pots – We must start again from scratch – Has been tried often and with little or no success. But if something is not done soon, The Scotland our children and grandchidren will inherit, will not be worth having,
What we need is :
A single umbrella organisation, standing for the Holyrood Regional List.
One Pledge. This Parliament alone, is authorised to exersise the sovereign will of the People of Scotland
One Aim, To acheive a majority of the popular vote.
One Purpose, All members elected will strive to ensure by all parliamentery means possible that the Holyrood Parliament aknowledges and complies with the mandate the people have given it and proceedes with the retrieval of the powere currently held elsewhere.
Possible outcomes :
We succeed in mobilising the, plethora of Non SNP independence groups, the 750,000 dissillusioned Yes’ers who have forsaken the SNP and undermine SNP exeptionalism to the extent that they come on board, effectivelly turning the clock back to before SNP1&2. Which would smash the door to freedom right off it’s hinges.
We do not gather enough momentum to deter the SNP Bosses from “toughing it out”. We can then with some justification (in the eyes of Joe public), denounce said SNP Bosses as “The Traitors who sold out the Patriot Game”. Without a quid pro quo, the number of independence supporters who will vote SNP 1 will be reduced. Anything better than 5% on the list should give us a few voices in Holyrood. If the SNP need to win List seats to remain major players , they will have been the architects and demolition contractors of their own demise. And a great deal of people who voted SNP will be very dissapointed but most of them will still think they did the “right” thing.
Let not the historians footnote the fact that the Old guard SNP who knew what was going down with sick Sturgeon queer theory.Took the money and ran. All retired on the same fucking day.
This analysis is spot on. I too can remember just how aggressively the SNP attacked wings and Stuart. I also recall many reports of ‘yes’ team volunteers’ getting told NOT to help distribute the wee blue book.
Now, here in 2024, I hear pretendy independence politicians saying things like, ‘people are not interested in independence right now‘, or ‘the public want to focus on other things‘. What those same politicians have not grasped (but folk like Salmond or Rev stu and others did) is that YOU have to make the case for independence. Folk have forgotten how to do that – how to link it to all other policies. It is like left wing MPs saying the public won’t vote for left wing policies, and that is true – UNLESS YOU MAKE THE CASE FOR THEM.
When Alex Salmond was first minister, in every speech, in every interview, in every discussion, he ALWAYS made the connection with Scottish independence. No matter the subject. And he did it because in Scotland’s case it is true, things will NEVER get better with England running our country as an after-thought – an ‘irritation’ at the bottom of that day’s agenda. No matter the subject, unemployment, welfare, health, economic development, personal prosperity, education, the list goes on and on.
In each and every case Scotland running Scotland, instead of being treated like an annoying jobby on the shoe of ‘britin’ England, things would be better.
Way too often I see supposedly pro independence SNP MPs and MSPs, shy away from even mentioning independence, like they are feart to even say it, for fear of criticism. That is why I call them cowards, that is why I say they have no burning urgent desire for independence, because if they did, they would not be so reluctant to mention it.
This idiocy started under Sturgeon. All it took was a Tory to accuse her of talking about nothing but independence, and what did she do? Did she hit back by saying ‘because independence is urgent’, or ‘because Scotland cannot grow without independence’? Ho, what she did from that point on was meekly tell everyone that she ‘didn’t talk about independence all the time’, thereby doing EXACTLY what unionists had always hoped would happen. She and her cabal literally stopped talking about independence. Doh!
If you want folk to vote for independence, you need to hammer the message home, that Scotland NEEDS independence as a matter of some urgency. Alex Salmond gets it, Stuart Campbell gets it, but the SNP don’t. The current SNP think they can just sit back and somehow ‘magically’ folk will start agreeing with independence – or even care.
Not only is the stance of the current SNP (and it goes all the way to the top) politically naive, it is ridiculously stupid.
If you want independence, you need to make the case. Always.
As things stand, I agree with Rev STU, the SNP are indeed now the biggest obstacle to Scottish independence. A bunch of cowardly, careerist shysters, each and every one.
The appetite amongst Yes activists in those weeks for The Wee Blue Book was enormous, absolutely insatiable. Everybody wanted bags full.
It was by far the most wanted item for street stalls and canvassers.
I helped move lots of them around and get them out in the right places. There’s still many of those activists out there, but sadly far too many of them have passed on in these ten years.
The Wee Blue Book contributed enormously in those last weeks of the campaign, helping to galvanise and convince so many who were unsure to vote Yes. It also – which has never been admitted – helped get the overwhelming raft of SNP MPs elected just a few months later.
With thanks to Stu for maintaining this place for all these years.
I will add my sadness at the news the other night of the death of Iain Lawson. Iain was a gentleman who poured his energy and resources into fighting the good fight. He was a plain talker and a pleasure to hear or read. His bona fides in the campaign for Independence can never be questioned. A genuine decent human being who cared and was prepared to do something.
“The SNP jealously attacked anyone of any degree of standing in the independence movement who wasn’t in the party”
Some of the worst attacks were actually on pro Indy people who were in the party, eg Alex and Joanna. It was being genuinely pro Indy, talented and posing any threat to the U.K. that got you attacked. It’s amazing how close we came in 2014, given how many of those around Yes Scotland were probably out to undermine independence, as they’ve shown since.
Confused at 12.52am says ‘And the whole of Edinburgh is “doing really well” . . .Edinburgh has been removed from Scotland, it connects via wormhole to the London-Oxford-Cambridge “golden triangle”.’
For example, see the stratospheric prices for one night’s accommodation being quoted by the Telegraph’s “Destination Expert”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/edinburgh/articles/where-to-stay-in-edinburgh-hotels-by-district/
A WBB was passed over the counter of a takeaway joint while I was waiting for RIC canvassing to start to help persuade their chef who was the sole holdout on Yes.
To distribute my copies before the vote I took to leaving them on bus shelter seats. They all went. I’m in Dundee, the Yes City. To go from that environment to the loss was hard.
To see the SNP throw all that energy, enthusiasm, experience, nous away because Sturgeon had impostor syndrome has made me very angry.
WBB was a godsend.
I well remember the enthusiasm with which we grabbed copies of the WBB on streetstalls. I always had at least one when I went out ready to pull out when I talked to people in shops and buses. It was simple, it was clear, it was atttactive and it was true. It was all ignored by the SNP.
And now another Independence supporter has gone. Iain Lawson deserves respect not only because he maintained a pro-Independence website of good quality and variety but he also published articles which he footnoted that he did not agree because he acknowledged that there are different opinions on how to achieve Independence. That showed confidence in the basic right to Scottish Independence. He will be missed.
Before our Yes group had hard copies of the Wee Blue Book, I had downloaded it and printed out copies. When we were out chapping at folk’s doors, if I thought they were wavering or hadn’t really thought about independence, I’d give them a copy. I’m sure it convinced many of them to vote Yes. Never met Iain Lawson but read his blogs and would like to add my condolences to his family. Sadly, I feel I’m at an age I’ll not see independence either. Can only hope my children and grandchildren do.
I am very sad and shocked to read the news that Iain Lawson has passed. My thoughts are with his family to whom I send my deepest condolences.
Iain was an exceptional man and will be very much missed. I looked forward every day to reading his blog. Like this one, Iain’s blog represented for me a glimpse of hope when I struggled to come to terms with the scale of the betrayal inflicted by the SNP on the yes movement and Scotland itself.
Today I am feeling sadness and anger in equal measure. Sadness because the yes movement has lost another unconditional pro-independence fighter in Iain. Anger because I cannot accept that Iain and many others before him, despite their huge efforts and despite their being so close to it, could not see their country free. And all because a bunch of disgusting betrayers have abused the power we gave them by using it to thwart every opportunity to deliver Scotland’s independence we have had.
Under the political fraud Sturgeon, the SNP was never pursuing independence. We need to come to terms with it. She was using it as a tool to stop it. When you look retrospectively, that is exactly what you see. Her every move, her every “mistake” only make any sense when you look at them from the perspective of her working to stop independence.
Because of this, it is unsurprising that this political fraud or her minions never sought to positively engage with this blog or sought the Rev’s advice on what to do. Instead, they worked to destroy and silence the most influential blog in Scotland’s politics. Again, that only makes sense if what they were pursuing was to stop independence and to disenfranchise pro-independence supporters.
I know it is very difficult and for many it will be impossible. But we need to forget about the SNP and move on. The SNP is gone. It was dealt a death blow the minute the political fraud Sturgeon took over and announced that a vote for the SNP was no longer a vote for independence. Since then, that political construct has become a wrecking ball which has sided with labour/been taken over by labour to thwart independence.
We have to accept that the SNP has become the largest obstacle in the way of Scotland’s independence and that is now irreversible. But, like with other big obstacles in the path, the easiest thing is not to waste time, energy and resources attempting to change it or even move it out of the way. The easiest thing is to simply bypass it. Leave it aside to rot.
In my opinion, if Alba, ISP or any other pro-indy political party want to succeed in 2026, they will have to go against the SNP. Trying to embrace it, despite its 10 years’ record of deliberately thwarting independence, is unpalatable to many independence supporters and will do nothing other than putting them off and make them question until what point those parties seek independence if they are still trying to work with a party who is thwarting independence.
10 years of betrayal cannot simply be ignored. They must be forever remembered as the SNP’s epitaph.
“Then the independence movement needs to get together. How about it Wings, Salvo, Peter Bell, weegingerdog, scotgoespop, Talking up Scotland”
LOLZ.
The three prongs of delusion
– Failure creates loyalty
“One more try, this time it’ll work”
One trick ponies will amuse once and should become tedious in the long run, but we know how attractive the underdog proposition is. You want David to win against Goliath.
This is where the balance of “one trick pony” vs. “underdog” weighs on people that decide to stay loyal or not.
This is sadly akin to the definition of insanity: trying the same thing over and over expecting different results.
That’s also the carrot in the famous trope of it and the stick.
– Hardship creates bonds
“We’re going through bad times, we must stick together to protect each other”
This is the main source of “othering” tactics and is prodromic to the creation of a cult, that can be attached to a personality or an ideal, to protect the “oppressed” group from the enemy.
Initialization rituals are also part of this aspect of blind delusional attachment.
Having to go through some difficult and sometimes degrading experiences to be accepted in the group is such a feat that invariably creates strong dependency.
Here you also see the stick opposite to the carrot in the unspoken risk of heavy ostracism and open threats if you leave the cult.
– Sunken cost fallacy
“We’ve been through so much, we can’t throw away everything and start from scratch”
Similarly to the failure/loyalty scenario, rejecting the idea that the vector, vehicle or tool that brought you here is no longer fit for the next steps falls into this realm.
Changing horse midway is heresy for some people, while the experts know that to get to destination faster you need a fresh horse. Ask a 19th century Pony Express.
Another metaphor? To make a table you need a chainsaw to fell the tree, a sawmill to cut it in planks, a table saw to cut the planks into the right size pieces, then you need glue, clamps, planers and more, up to the smallest chisel to give your table the finest of details.
Right tool at the right time.
Musical tribute to Iain Lawson…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGdiGq7GWQ4
The Scottish Rip van Winkel has been slumbering for more than three centuries.
High time for a rude awakening, a «douche écossaise» maybe, the exhilarating hot/cold treatment formerly administered in mental institutions when all else failed.
Iain Lawson’s film début? —
THE STEEL MEN VS THE IRON LADY – GARTCOSH TO LONDON
https://vimeo.com/tacedorris/thesteelmen
The WBB was a game changer in 2014 but it’s quite shocking how the SNP tried to undermine it. Of course, with Sturgeon and ex-BBC Blair Jenkins in charge of the official campaign, it’s hardly surprising it was pathetic. Who could forget the former’s infamous “halt order” on getting the vote out on the afternoon of 18th September, when we were all diverted instead to standing outside polling stations to smile inanely at the approaching voters and “prepare for an historic evening”.
The Norwegians refer to their unfortunate union with Denmark as their “four hundred year sleep”. They then entered into another useless union with Sweden and only got out from under in 1905. Since then it’s been downhill all the way with a colossal oil fund and a prosperous, happy and healthy
population, despite the attempts of Globalists to drag it down with their insane policies.
At this rate it’ll be at least an other hundred years for Scotland to struggle free, (thanks mainly to the prefidy of the SNP) when the very concept of Scotland may well be more and more difficult to sustain.
How shameful and telling that it took Citizen Campbell to draw together a few salient facts and arguments in a little booklet which was apparently beyond the abilities of the huge number of MSM journalists working in the prodigious newspaper industry of just ten years ago.
Even when we lost in 2014, I thought we would win in a few years because Salmond had normalised the idea of independence but then She Who Must Be Obeyed hoofed the colossally golden opportunity of Brexit into touch in 2016 we should all have seen her for what she was: someone to rival Benedict Arnold in the Inventory of Infamy.
Thanks anyway, Mr C. The WBB was serious voodoo. No wonder the grifters hated it (and you).
the worst aspect of this spectacle is how those who killed indy fill their pockets while dancing on its grave and proclaiming a second coming …
– something bad should happen to them; nothing physical, just to be exposed and live out your long life, in reduced circumstances, the target of derision and contempt.
Make it blunt – Scotland has the setup to become a decent interpolation of Norway, Ireland, Switzerland, albeit with its own twist and national culture; now you will never have that. Once you are rich, you can fix almost any problem you have; being controlled by a hostile foreign elite who hate you, asking for their charity, you have no hope. We live for them, not ourselves.
It is sad for those who worked for the dream then passed before it could be achieved. Ordinary men and women, clasping Alex’s hand in 2014.
Iain Lawson was definitely a “good guy” and not a “wank” according to the universally correct chewin-the-fat scale.
the picture of the iconic cooling towers of ravenscraig is appropriate for many reasons … grangemouth next, and what else – why not shutdown all farming and food production, make everything imported from england – totally destroy Scotland as viable entity. You think they don’t think of these things?
The young will grow up never realising what was lost, what could have been – but at least you can call yourself a nonbinary and go to the gay disco.
I remember a sad tale in the press a few years ago about a female killer whale which pushed her dead calf around the sea for weeks, before eventually accepting the situation for what it was and letting it go.
I wonder how much longer the Yes movement will spend in a similar state of denial where the SNP is concerned.
Time to let go…
@ Breeks
Indeed , B .
Too many are waiting on …..
The Second Coming of Alex Salmond
Various Legal actions involving the aforementioned A.S , ScotGov , Ms Blah , Mr Blah & assorted Alphablahties
The next NEXT , eg Holyweird Elections 26/30/34/ad infinitum
The * conversion * of x1000s * New Scots *
A unification of the hopelessly fragmented ” Independence Movement ” by people who were responsible for that fragmentation and whose every word/deed adds to it .
Godot’s maw .
Anything ” novel ” is drowned in cold water at birth ; any suggestion there could be extra-Parliamentary strategies that could further our cause is shot-down by arrows with ” ye cannae dae ” that written on them .
The idea that our own history , specifically the history of how our country came to in – something called – ” The Union ” dismissed out-of-hand & scorned as ” ancient guff ”
Yet , distractions of all kinds are embraced , eg….
AUOB cancelling the arranged march in September order to act-out Spanish Civil War fantasies – NO PASARAN , YA BASS .
Two of ALBA’S well kent faces standing in English seats to protest events ” elsewhere ” .
That kind of focus on ” Elsewhere ” is leading us Nowhere
Rev, your Wee Blue Book got to Lochbroom, Wester Ross, and the people who organised getting it here and distributing it were very excited with the content – it had everything that was needed. Our district was well-manned and very active with Yessers but having a factual text was very helpful indeed. We ended up in our polling district with 59% Yes.
As for the areas where the SNP were impeding the WBB distribution, if we knew the names then surely they will be some of the infiltrators?
I was going to post something sarcastic and hopefully witty when I saw this yesterday, but the basic facts are a joke in themselves – the mismatch here is reminiscent of “womens” olympic boxing; richest man the world, stupendous IQ, US law, the first amendment, all the lawyers on speed dial, facts on his side … Scots Law, verified fanny, his grifting lawyer, feels and interpretations … little compares to it; maybe the ayrshire cops “investigation” of CIA torture flights out of Prestwick – international arrest warrants and kwallity polis heading to langley …
– the rev, on form, nails it on all aspects.
An Intricate Fabric of Bad Actors Working Hand-in-Hand” – So is war Inevitable? Alistair Crooke, Strategic Culture, https://archive.ph/SbDpM
The above is well worth a read for the “whole of society” phrase, which I’d never come across before, but describes nicely how government, the media and NGOs work hand in hand to push the chosen “agenda”.
The SNP were avid implementers of this. It may not have been at MI5’s instigation; more likely it was down to Sturgeon’s “what’s good for progressive America, is good enough for Scotland” desire to create an enduring political party, stamping on the face of the non-believers for ever.
Why is this relevant? Well dismantling the SNP is just the first step. You’ll need to dismantle and rebuild a whole raft of institutions that were working to further the SNP’s vision. Alternatively, and likely much faster and effective, simply beat them with the money stick until they recant and change their evil ways.
As for the war? Well, the article hints we’re heading down the road to an / the final encounter between good and evil. Plan accordingly.
” wicked ” evil , what , as opposed to ” nice ” evil ?
Not content with their absolute failure to advance Independence one mm , make a decent job of ANYTHING and what’s looking like the inevitable handing of their once unassailable position in Holyrood to fellow fuck-ups * Scottish * Labour , these utter buffoons are now intent on making Scotland a Global laughing stock .
Yousaf , like his predecessor , is incapable of grasping his total insignificance anywhere other than among the ranks of the Undead , ie the Nu SNP Cult .
I almost choked laughing when I seen the Undertaker ( Swinney ) demand action from Musk . Or what ? What could that diddy do to make E.M comply with his ” demand ” , redact him ?
Yes , Stu , all the ” Progressives ” are united in their determination that no opinion should be allowed to be expressed that doesn’t conform to their lunatic criteria : their 1st instinct is to cancel , ban , silence anything they disagree with . Given the chance they’ll be the first to prosecute/persecute any dissident voices .
I’m against banning anyone on the grounds of disagreement with their views , but it would be poetic justice ( and hilarious ) if Musk banned all these imbeciles . How would they function outside their hermetically-sealed bubbles ? Fuck ! they’d maybe have to talk to real people , in the real World .
MALFUNCTION ! MALFUNCTION ! MALFUNCTION ! * smoke *
“The difference is the “algorithm” that pushes you stories you might find interesting. If you were shown only things from people you subscribed to, then you would be right, but as long as the “suggested for you” option exists, twitter, just like any other platform that makes money from clicks, may not be considered neutral and blameless.”
Twitter is not “blameless”. It has many flaws. But you don’t have to look at the “For You” tab, and if you do you can seriously alter what it shows you by muting or blocking a few of the accounts it pushes at you. Try it, you’ll be startled by the results.
Nor, of course, do you have to use Twitter at all.
“However, if that same microphone is being used to pipe stuff into your home, just because a minute ago you happened to read about something similar, than it is an altogether different kettle of fish.”
Nobody is forcibly piping Twitter into your home. It’s not a “1984” telescreen. You decide when you want to look at it, as well as who and what you want to look at.
Scotland’s most urgent problem is our ongoing colonization, not colour racism. Like most of the SNP hierarchy Yousaf has no understanding of the Scottish colonial reality, or the colonial/cultural assimilation process Scots remain subjected and subordinate to, or even that independence means decolonization.
Colonization of ‘a people’ is not necessarily dependent on any colour difference between colonized and colonizer, rather:
1. Colonialism, always involves prejudice and racism levelled against the oppressed subordinate indigenous native people and in particular their language and culture, which may also develop into fascism as reflecting a cultural and ethnic division of labour due to the imposition, prioritisation and domination of the colonizer group culture/values, and;
2. Due to colonialism, the oppressed group develop ‘Appropriated Racial Oppression’ whereby colonialism inspired racism is internalized (i.e. internalized racism’) by the oppressed people who, due to their colonial domination and development of a ‘colonial mindset’, view their subordination, oppression, exploitation and lack of opportunity as deserved, which it is not.
In a colonial society, assimilation ultimately fails for the oppressed native ethnic group (Memmi), and also for other non-colonizer ethnic groups.
https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2021/08/15/determinants-of-independence-ethnicity/
James Barr Gardner @ 10:13 pm
“Meantime BBC promoting all the energy cables going south ….!”
Scots should be sending invoices for all that power generated in Scotland, which will retail at around £100 billion a year by 2030, i.e. about double the Holyrood budget. The ever rising price of the colonial UK union:
So it turns out that they’ll be five superhighway pipelines/cable lines from Scotland to England – in which electricity created in Scotland will be sent South of the border, to keep the lights on down South – and Scots won’t get a penny for it – already there’s one on the West coast of Scotland, sending electricity generated in Scotland to Wales.
The plan couldn’t be more clearer – Scotland is to be robbed of the energy it creates – and it will receive nothing back in return – and Scots will continue to pay high energy bills in a land that’s teeming with energy sources.
Every single foreign MSM news channel in Scotland -reported on this yesterday putting the story across, as though it was a great idea – it is if you live outside Scotland – but for Scots, its just another way in which we are being robbed, by the big energy firms – and the English government – aided and abetted I might add, by our House Jock government.
The point of having all that excess energy is that we do things with it ourselves.
Electricity, within Scotland becomes very cheap for everyone; this makes the people happy and is incredibly attractive to foreign investors – e.g. datacenters/AI/cloud have an insatiable desire for power. They setup here, bringing good tech jobs. But it applies across the board – anything energy intensive becomes possible here. Energy lets you do things, and when you have it in excess you can do anything at all – smelt steel, build ships again, make space rockets, build a hyperloop from Glasgow to Edinburgh.
“selling it to the English” – this shows a COMPLETE FUCKING TOTAL LACK OF IMAGINATION indicative of the “anglo brain” that everything is about them, or must involve them in some way. They get nothing, they are irrelevant. Let them build nuke power plants on the Thames.
Any excess energy you have you can e.g. mine b1toin. You can always do something with it.
The idea we give it away to the english for buttons and its somehow “good for Scotland” is idiotic, but that is how every news source played this yesterday.
What next? Howsabout every Scot give up their extra kidney to help out the English, because they are so good and kind, Barnett and GERS and all that.
Prima nocte? Where does it end?
The west / NATO is very good at cutting cables it does not like, not in its economic interest (NordStream 2, various internet connections gone down mysteriously) – we should follow their example.
I think Lenin said something along the lines of – “the capitalists will sell us the rope we hang them with”.
The perilous state of the mainstream news is well known – they don’t sell papers anymore. Some have successful online operations like the hated Daily Mail – its the house journal of the anglo-cunt demographic, but its a tight well run business and they know their audience; most online editions probably lose money as well. Losses on losses, how do they survive? Well, obviously there must be some kind of bailout/prop from the govt, and done for the purpose of maintaining the fiction of a free press – all these “different” newspapers.
What would it take to crowdfund a takeover of the Scotsman?
– and once done, we – shut it down. Last edition :
WE SPEWED LIES AND PROPAGANDA EVERY DAY OF OUR EXISTENCE
WE PISS ON SCOTLAND AND THE SCOTS
WE ARE MIDDLE CLASS TR4ITOR SCUM – BUT NOW WE ARE UNEMPLOYED
the last PDF edition might be full of unflattering biographies of its hacks and brutal takedowns of the worst examples of its lying journalism.
Now capitalism allows you to make a profit; why not be a bit more stealthy, pretend you are making a go of it – load it up with debt, pay massive salaries and bonuses, hire the crowdfunders as employees, then, and only then – crash it into the ground, “doing a ratner”. Everyone walks away with money in their pockets and you have slaughtered this unionist pig in public.
Then we do the same for the National, Herald, whatever. It’s no loss anyway, their product is crap – and this way you get to see a lot of utter cunts on the dole, or desperately trying to get jobs in the english papers, which don’t want or need them.
James Che @ 9:43 am
“The issue with knowing a country is under Colonialism mentally and it being useful in freeing a Country from Colonialism needs to addressed for obvious reasons. Sure to do that the very people that suspect they are under Colonialism must dissect how that came about,
By forceful invasion?
By deceit?
By Bribery?
By agreements the ethnic population were not consulted on?
Sending armies to threaten to quell and subdue the protesting population?
By a “treaty produced after” any of the above have already taken place.”
An informative list, James, which helps explain how the colonial hoax may come about in different ways, and via combinations of these. As we have seen with many former colonies this information must of course eventually be presented to the UN and its agencies who were established to help bring imperial rule to an end. Which is something our incumbent national party has singularly failed to do, hence the Salvo and Liberation Scotland initiative under way.
What we need to get Scotland out of this hell hole and with the ability to create a form of democracy that will make it very difficult for any one person or any parties to shackle the populace is for the people with fire in their bellies for honesty to combine their energies and abilities.
We all know the Rev is one such. Iain Lawson was another. I would suggest people from all the groups working on necessary aspects of a restored Scotland seem to have similar qualities – the Scottish Sovereignty Research Group, the currency and constitution groups, the Independence Forum, Manifesto for Indy, Salvo/Liberation. Add the new party founders – Colette Walker, Alex Salmond, Peter A Bell and the Independents for Independence. Roddy MacLeod, Lloyd Quinan, Phil Boswell. Tim Rideout.
It has been suggested here before – get such principled, energetic, capable people in a room and thrash out a step to take immediately that will get some progress. Perhaps call in some MSPs who can be persuaded by the moral authority of this body to exert leverage e.g. by threatening public resignations or crossing the floor.
And launch a crowdfunder so that pages in the press and billboards can be bought and a national radio or TV station set up, perhaps based in Isle of Man or Ireland or Denmark if necessary.
There really is no time left to lose given the constant and increasing drain of Scotland’s resources for the benefit of the UK i.e. England’s establishment.
Please, Rev, get on the phone and see what can be done. None of the groups/individuals that I have mentioned would hesitate for a second to join such a gathering.
The whole race riots thing in England. Is entirely an issue for England to address. The truth is that the average knuckle dragging EDL member, just lashes out at anything but the actual ones doing the harm to them.
First they thought it was the Irish , the Jocks, then the EU, now it’s anyone who isn’t English. The true crimes were committed by the Tory government they elected time and time again. England is a nasty wee nation , and it’s middle classes pretend this is a working class condition.
But the truth is England is an inward looking country. Obsessed with it’s place at the centre of the universe. They have the same mentality as the rabid Rangers fans. That’s why those fans love everything right wing, English or Israeli. They latch onto the England team , because their fans are just like them. Nobody likes them, but they don’t seem to care.
Boris was upper middle class and a racist bigot, Churchill was the same, Cameron, the Windsor’s. All wealthy , and all self obsessed.
The English disease runs from top to bottom of their society.
The fact that Humza feels the need to spread their bile to Scotland , by dragging us into this. Speaks volumes about how little he understands independence.
Can I just say, this ENGLISH plan to build a power superhighway in order to STEAL Scottish generated electricity without paying for it, is outrageous.
The English steal our oil for over forty years, and now they steal our electricity. They should be told to get to f***. Thieving colonialist barstewards.
What will it take for the SNP Scottish government to stand up to this colonialist sh*te?? Seriously, what will it take Mr Swinney? Do something. Cause a stooshie, never give any kind of assent to this criminality. Make every single step as difficult as possible. Delay, delay, delay. Fight it in every single way. Courts, planning laws, whatever. Do not just whine, then sit back and let them do it easily. Make it so damn difficult and problematical they will think again.
Do they really want Scotland to hate England even more?? Thieving England. Cannot steal from other countries anymore, so just steals from Scotland. So we, in Scotland have all the windfarms, all over the land, and England just takes the power as it pleases.
An absolute f***ing outrage, and the SNP Scottish government do NOTHING. YET AGAIN. Meanwhile, Scotland scurries around looking for somebody with a backbone.
Confused @ 12:33 pm
The question as to “how and why our GDP per capita is 1/3 of neighbouring countries” is relatively easy to answer: it is the continuing colonial plunder of Scotland that is today costing Scots £150 billion+ every year.
@Sarah
May I add names to your list of people who should know each other and whose work may intersect and add some impulse to Scottish independence?
Professors David Walsh and Gerry McCartney are public health researchers in Glasgow University. They have written a book to be available from November. “Social Murder:Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK”.
Dr Iain Matheson of Coventry University has written on the Highlands and the internal colonisations that have taken place there.
Here is a link to one of his articles which might also interest Alf Baird.
There is also a piece by Iain Docherty that should be noted and remembered.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-923X.13312
“One of these fundamentals,[of constitutional debate] the extent to which Scotland is better or worse off being part of the UK political economy, is rarely debated in the depth it deserves. The parlous state of the UK economy and, in particular, the deeply entrenched territorial inequality that results from its extreme core-periphery structure that safeguards the economic dominance of London and South East England, holds the potential for a surprise shift in the debate over independence to emerge.”
In light of the eternal delays to branchform, it makes one wonder, just WHY a person from England, with no knowledge of Scotland, is running Police Scotland. Was there really nobody at all in Scotland who had Scottish experience and understanding of Scots law, policing and legal processes available. Really?
It does make you wonder though, what with those interminable delays to Branchform, doesn’t it? Why appoint a chief constable from a different country with a totally different legal system with zero experience or knowledge of Scottish law or policing?
I think the longer the delays with branchform go on, that question will need asked more and more. To my eyes, it stinks to high heaven.
sam @ 8:27 pm
“May I add names to your list of people who should know each other and whose work may intersect and add some impulse to Scottish independence?”
Some I know. But these and other academic commentators on Scotland’s ‘condition’ generally tend to ignore postcolonial theory, which is the only literature that fully explains the colonial condition. Matheson looks primarily at historical events in the Highlands & Islands. In the modern sense Docherty also tends to look at events in terms of political theory and political media articles, believing that Scotland is some sort of aberration from the recognised colonial norm, as is the weakness of those on the left sympathetic to independence yet unable to define it (i.e. decolonization).
They/we would all be better reading Michael Hechter’s ‘Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development’, first published in 1975 and republished in 1999. And Doun-Hauden of course, which provides the only applied theoretical framework that has been developed explaining the socio-political determinants of Scottish independence in aw thair mankit naitur:
“Because ultimately they’re not scared of Elon Musk. They’re scared of you”
An insightful observation.
The Internet is a minefield of lies and misinformation, with a fair bit of sin tossed into the mix, too; but despite its obvious weaknesses think how much worse it could be for humanity right now if it didn’t exist.
The advent of blogging and social media; the easy access to mind-numbingly vast mountains of information; some of it real some of it imaginary; some of it true some of it false; some of it enlightening some of it dark and disturbing; has given the masses a voice for the first time in known history.
Communication is humankind’s universal solvent, and its salvation; without it we stumble about in the darkness, cut-off from the minds and the thoughts and the feelings of our fellow travellers; isolated and alone in a barely comprehensible confusion of sensory signals bombarding us from every aspect.
Without the tools of communication we are imprisoned in our own minds; without the tools of communication we are stranded and alone in a universe made of our own echoing thoughts reverberating each against the other until we hear nothing but the white noise of our own ignorance.
The Internet is a platform, a vehicle for communication between isolated minds – that, coupled with our thoughts expressed in codified language, music, images and artistic interpretations real or imagined, is the source of its power.
That power is now unstoppable. The unpredictable egregore of instantaneous world-wide communication between the ‘proletariat’ has been released into the world and can never again be constrained, it can only be destroyed.
But to destroy it would destroy the modern world, and with it the new ‘monarchs’ of Earth – those who would be kings might be insane, but they aren’t suicidal.
With such power the masses now have the potential to come together and organise; to arm themselves in the war against their imposed and orchestrated ignorance.
As the Reverend points out, Rex Mundi, the king of the world and his minions are scared.
They welcomed the Internet as a tool for the manipulation of the masses thinking they could control it. They’ve now realised they can’t and are afraid, whether they know it or not, of losing their power to bend the peoples of Earth to their will.
The world’s ringmasters hold a wild tiger by the tail and they throw bread after bread, circus after circus, distraction after distraction in front of it desperately hoping it doesn’t see through their trickery and turn to face them; and in that moment it sees the truth, devour them.
The self-appointed masters of Earth are not only scared…they’re terrified.
Petition, by Sara Salyers:
‘We call for the immediate resignation of Angus Robertson as the Scottish Government’s External Relations and Culture Minister following his meeting with the Deputy Isr*eli Ambassador to the UK, at which they discussed deepening Scottish relations with the Isr*eli government in fields including technology, culture and renewable energy.
We also call on the Scottish government to dissolve the Holyrood cross-party group, ‘Building Bridges with Israel’ whose stated purpose includes, ‘to engage with Israel and build links based on business, culture and academia’.
On 19 July the International Court of Justice ruled that Isr*el practices apartheid and segregation, and is in illegal occupation of the Pale*tinian territories. The ICJ stated there is a duty on all states not to cooperate with and to act against these practices. It is expected of every government or organ of government, that they follow a policy of non-cooperation and anti-apartheid action.
The Scottish Government decision to ignore this obligation and, instead, deepen ties with Isr*el is abhorrent to the Scottish people more especially at a time when Isr*el is awaiting trial before the ICJ for allegedly committing genocide at this moment in G*za.
No excuses are acceptable. Angus Robertson must resign with immediate effect. The Holyrood cross-party group, ‘Building Bridges with Isr*el’ must be dissolved until Is*ael is in compliance with international law.’
The pillage will continue in ways unimaginable to most.
Scottish water is the purest, most plentiful, cheapest in the world; we can drink it straight out the tap. English water, even when clean, has a funny taste due to being “hard”.
England went to the free market for its water – we went “national, socialist” – and now its swimming in shit and paying high prices. Invisible hand, best of all possible worlds, solving the scarce resource allocation problem … markets don’t work when you don’t set them up right, and some situations are not appropriate; water supply, healthcare, transport – should be considered infrastructure, not a profit centre.
The anglo water companies will whack up prices, twist themselves a bailout, but it is likely/possible, they all go bust and end up nationalised.
So, some bean counter in the ministry is doing the sums – fixing all the leaks, building treatment/filtration plants, pumping stations, all suitable for the population projections of 2030, maybe 85M people … and its gonna cost a packet, a bloody fortune and – it could threaten the budget for the supernuke, or the nuke power stations, or the fighting of whatever new wars we want to be in …
– then a lightbulb moment; whatabout a national water grid – they’ve got loads up in jockland? Now this was always thought uneconomic, but it is now much cheaper than fixing things down south. So why not do it?
And who would stop it?
when they are cutting budgets, just remember they are funding shite like this –
https://myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/glasgow/jobs/hate-crime-policy-officer-fixed-term-389228
“freeze on non essential recruitment”
not if you are part of the woke-elect
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