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Crunch conference

~ Peter A Bell ~ 10 Comments

Two issues must be addressed at this conference. One of which doesn’t appear on the provisional agenda at all and the other which appears only in as a dessicated husk sucked dry of meaning and effect by those whose personal or factional interests are best served by conference being rendered meaningless and ineffectual.

Killer question

~ Peter A Bell ~ 37 Comments

I often wonder if those lauding Ash Regan’s proposal have even read the document. Or read it with an open mind. Read it without have already decided what it all means and therefore taking from it exactly that meaning regardless of what is actually written in the document.

POWER IS NEVER GIVEN! POWER IS ONLY TAKEN!

~ Peter A Bell ~ 17 Comments

I’ve had a lot of time to think about this. And the biggest possible incentive to think well. I have been through every phase of the fight to restore Scotland’s independence since 1960, or thereabouts. I’ve seen all the campaigns. I’ve read all the proposals. I’ve chanted all the slogans and waved all the placards. It has taken me 60+ years to realise that all of that was merely a preamble to #ScottishUDI.

Plus ça change…

~ Peter A Bell ~ 8 Comments

Is anybody in the upper echelons of the SNP even capable of conceiving of Scotland’s cause as a national liberation movement? Are any of Scotland’s politicians able to think of the independence movement as a fight to end a pollical union which makes Scotland indistinguishable from a colony of England-as-Britain?

Scotland’s cause

~ Peter A Bell ~ 13 Comments

Saturday’s march and rally was an exercise in nostalgia, harking back to and seeking to revivify a campaign from the past. That campaign belongs in the past. We have to move on. We must have a campaign that is relevant to the situation that exists now.