Are you convinced?

Oct 5, 2020 ~ Peter A Bell ~ 7 Comments

To be scrupulously fair, it isn't easy trying to find new ways of saying the same thing over and over week after week. I could almost sympathise. I have to try and find new ways of responding to this vacuous drivel. I know what a grinding, joyless, soul-sucking chore it can be. But any fellow-feeling I might have quickly evaporates in the heat of my anger at being taken for a fool. Angry, too, on behalf of all the others who are being treated so shabbily by the SNP's chief enthuser.

Clumsy self-promotion

Feb 29, 2020Feb 29, 2020 ~ Peter A Bell ~ 7 Comments

This is the kind of idiocy politicians come out with when they're obliged to fill air time or the space between quotation marks.

Spoilt for choice

Feb 26, 2020Feb 26, 2020 ~ Peter A Bell ~ 4 Comments

SNP members in the Edinburgh Central constituency will have their own views on the matter of how the independence campaign should be taken forward.

The telling phrase

Feb 24, 2020 ~ Peter A Bell ~ 17 Comments

The movement for Scotland to be an independent European nation can only be realised from Holyrood.

Last chance?

Jan 18, 2020Jan 18, 2020 ~ Peter A Bell ~ 28 Comments

We know what the "key" is. We've been handing that key to the SNP for thirteen years. We know we will have to hand them that key again in 2021. What we need to know is when are they going to use that key.

Wasted years

Jan 4, 2020 ~ Peter A Bell ~ 8 Comments

The point I'm making is that it was perfectly possible to start planning for a new referendum immediately the result of the first one was known. Even if some wound-licking time was required there has been at least five years in which the not inconsiderable resources of the SNP could and should have been devoted to developing at least the bones of a campaign strategy.

Telling it how it isn’t

Oct 19, 2019 ~ Peter A Bell ~ 12 Comments

I'm sure readers of The National are obliged to Angus Robertson for pointing out that "Scotland’s future is currently not in the hands of the people in Scotland". We should all be grateful to him for reminding us that "Our future is being determined by people we did not vote for and [who] do not … Continue reading Telling it how it isn’t

The mood

Jul 27, 2019Jul 27, 2019 ~ Peter A Bell ~ 21 Comments

What I take from this article is that the SNP is content to let things play out under the auspices of a malignant child-clown on the assumption that this will somehow lead to the restoration of Scotland's independence.

Out of time

May 29, 2019May 29, 2019 ~ Peter A Bell ~ Leave a comment

The political landscape has changed dramatically since the first Scottish independence referendum.

Choose your weapons

May 11, 2019May 11, 2019 ~ Peter A Bell ~ 4 Comments

In terms of political campaigning, what matters is engagement. Getting people to listen. Inducing them to think. Provoking them to act.

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