Regardless of which rat emerges victorious from the sack of the Tory leadership fight, the next British government will be the most brutally anti-Scottish administration since the military occupation of Scotland after Culloden. They may not come swinging swords and cudgels, but their purpose will be the same as it was then ─ to eradicate … Continue reading The British are coming!
The timeline for restoring Scotland's independence is not a matter of choice. If bold, decisive action is not taken to initiate an equally bold and decisive process before the next UK general election, we may find ourselves in a situation even more precarious than now. Who can now doubt that the next UK general election … Continue reading Timeline and gameplan
The threat to which The Sunday National refers has been looming for years (Tory leadership race 'poses Thatcher threat to Scotland amid lurch to the right'). Arguably, it has been looming for decades. But it can be said with certainty that it is over the last decade that the threat of far right-wing British governments … Continue reading The threat
Only the Scottish Parliament can restore Scotland's independence. The Scottish Parliament can only restore Scotland's independence if it has the necessary powers. The Scottish Parliament can only acquire the necessary powers by taking them. This is where we are. #ScottishUDI
What ensues? What follows? What comes next? How are things connected? How does one thing lead to another? What is the logical sequence of credible actions? How do all the components mesh? These are some of questions that should be asked any time something is proposed, which purports to be a plan or whenever something … Continue reading What ensues?
Making her statement to the Scottish Parliament yesterday setting out the SNP+SGP/Scottish Government's proposed 'routemap' to a new independence referendum, Nicola Sturgeon quoted the redoubtable Canon Kenyon Wright speaking as Convener of the Scottish Constitutional Convention on the subject of Scotland's Claim of Right said, What if that other voice we all know so well … Continue reading We, the people?
Ruth Wishart mentions one "flaw" in the argument for a plebiscitary election as being "losing sight of other issues". It's unclear what she means by this as it could refer to the difficulty of losing sight of other issues so as to make it a single-issue vote or it could mean the problem of other … Continue reading A time to every purpose
Kirsty Strickland is undoubtedly correct when she says: "It’s time for a new conversation." Unfortunately, that is not what Nicola Sturgeon is proposing. Granted, we don't know much about what she is proposing. But we know enough to be certain that she has no intention of reframing the constitutional issue. We can deduce from her … Continue reading Mad as hell!
There is no route to the restoration of Scotland's independence through the legal and constitutional framework which has developed subject to the imperative to preserve the Union. The legal and constitutional framework necessarily protects the Union and thereby the dominance of England-as-Britain in a grotesquely asymmetric political union. Legal advice cannot be relevant because lawyers … Continue reading No way through
The difference between a Unionist and a British Nationalist is that the former has never questioned the Union while the latter insists that the Union must never be questioned. I was reminded of the above apophthegm when I saw the headline on a piece in The National today - Do Unionists still think we are … Continue reading The target
Peter A Bell 