Unconscionable

The snow that has been falling over Scotland during the last number of hours masks yet another in a long long line of treacherous acts by local agents of another country, seeking long term reward for doing their master’s bidding, determined to ensure that their own country remains under the control, and at the whim, of its larger neighbour, as it has done since the time when torches were lit on the English coast, bells pealed above cathedrals in London and people rioted in the streets of Edinburgh.

Get the wellies on, the snow shovel out and that path cleared folks because you are going to have to get out there and let your sceptical friends and relatives know that it’s happening. They won’t see much about it on the BBC.

Following last night’s vote in the Commons where the SNP, for once partially aided by Labour,looked to protect Holyrood’s claim to returned EU powers which impact Scotland’s economy, a bid defeated because the Scottish Tories despicably voted it down, they are coming for everything. Westminster is set on hoovering up any and all powers that currently sit with the European Union to the detriment, yet again of the people of Scotland.

Do not be in the slightest surprised too if the return of powers over agriculture, fisheries, harbours, the environment, renewable energy,onshore fracking licensing, and any of the other 111 powers they are going to scoop up, don’t act as a catalyst for London to start overtly seriously undermining the devolution process. After all, significant funding increases have revealed that Viceroy Mundell is quietly being supported in turning the Scotland Office into a provincial government hub once more akin to the old Scottish Office days. Watch that space.

As for the Scottish Tories elected at the last General Election there surely cannot be a more despicable act to commit in politics than betraying your own country’s interests.

We heard at the time of their election to parliament about how they were going to stand up for Scotland, how courageous they were going to be if they felt that they had to stand against their southern colleagues on issues where their country was being undermined or disadvantaged. What a lot of utter bollox. They have trooped in to every voting lobby behind their right-wing millionaire dishonourable friends as a simple matter of course. Unionist cheerleaders in tartan frilly knickers. They are so low that at last David Mundell has found a group of people who are deferential to him.

Let’s see how all of the farmers, rural folk and fishermen they convinced to vote for them feel once it eventually sinks in that London is going to use the products of their hard and sometimes dangerous work, risking their livelihoods by using them as bargaining pawns in negotiations with Europe once it eventually gets to the point where May, Davis and Johnson’s bobbing and weaving runs out of steam and they find themselves hopelessly wedged in a corner leaning heavily on the ropes whilst being pummelled on the posh nose by a French politician.

Get out there folks. They are trying to pull the rug out from under us. We are now in a position where the future of Scotland’s economy and the control of the levers of that economy are in the decision making hands of a group of unelected Lords, Ladies and bra-makers, none of whom who consider the people of Scotland’s right to self-determination as legitimate, many of whom who are in fact openly hostile to that outcome.