As to the questions that are put to the SNP by the pro-independence part of the Yes movement, doesn't it strike you as strange that the SNP makes such frantic efforts to answer every daft question put by Unionists but flatly refuses to engage with those inside the Yes movement who seek information or explanation?
Scotland's fate hangs in the balance. Only the combined might of the independence movement can stop self-serving, blinkered, dogmatic, cowardly politicians making an error that could very well prove fatal to Scotland's cause.
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.
A plan is a set of steps leading to a predetermined outcome. what we are getting from the SNP leadership is not a plan. It is not a 'strategy for independence'. It is empty rhetoric.
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.
Refusal of a Section 30 order leaves Scotland’s cause exactly where it is now; nothing relevant having changed since the last such refusal. Therefore, anything that can be done to progress Scotland’s cause after a Section request, could be done without another Section 30 request. So, why bother with another Section 30 request? And why is the SNP never asked this question?
To those of us who come to these things with critical faculties intact and functioning, the performance seemed hammy the script hackneyed and the plot a serious challenge to our ability to suspend disbelief.
If anybody in the upper echelons of the SNP still pays the slightest attention to professional Westminster veteran Pete Wishart, they'd be groaning over their morning coffee on reading about the Perth & North Perthshire MP's latest musings and mutterings as reported in The National today, (SNP MP doubts Westminster will 'positively' engage if party … Continue reading The slow dawning
Is this how it is to be with the Independence Convention? The party members can choose any approach to the constitutional issue they want so long as it is the one Humza Yousaf has decided on? There's 57 varieties, but only Cream of Tomato is being served?
The only sure way to secure the right of the people of Scotland to determine the constitutional status of our nation and choose the form of government that best serves our needs, priorities and aspirations, is to do what we have an absolute right to do regardless of any obstacles or impediments that may put in our path or any threats that may be made. Just do it!
Peter A Bell 