The polls are swinging back our way again and the First Minister has set out some approximate target seasons, if not dates, for progression towards an independence referendum. This will be a referendum which the lumpen proponent of exceptionalism and Peppa Pig fetishist, who laughingly passes for a UK Prime Minister, will have to challenge, undemocratically, in the courts.
That challenge, on the basis of current law alone, he is likely to win. In my view, his winning, likely in the Supreme Court, successfully suppressing the democratic will of a sovereign nation by enforcing a law which effectively gives another country the right to tell us what we can and cannot do, will backfire spectacularly.
Now if we can only get the original party advocating an independent Scotland and the new-entrant party advocating an independent Scotland to stop sniping at each other (life was so much easier in the days when the unionist media used to invent stories of internal wars to try and get us all to fall out and we’d laugh and make jokes about throwing Forfar Bridies and last week’s tawtie scones at each other), particularly in the unionist media, helping to do their job for them, things would be a wee bit easier.
Also, and I’ve said this many times before, if we are going to fight, and win a campaign we need the tools to do the job. We, the many thousands of committed advocates of the return to a self-governing sovereign Scotland, need clear guidance on currency (not the Growth Commission) Europe, pensions, renewable energy, a constitution, in fact all of the topics that will get flung at us via the big shytey pot of Project Fear 2 (the sequel, it’s back, it’s angry, it’s taking us seriously this time, and we’re going to need a bigger boat).
Give us a case to sell, and by goodness we will leave no undecided relative, colleague or friend unturned in our efforts to convince those not-yet-decided to do a bit of their own research and then make an informed decision untrammelled by British nationalist propaganda. We’re more than happy to do the hard work but give us the support to do it.
What has happened to the Independence Unit that Mike Russell, who I have a lot of time for, took charge of in June? Where’s the output of the SNP media rebuttal team that was set up some time before then? Yes, we are in a pandemic, and our government is working hard at doing as much as they can to reduce deaths and serious illnesses amongst us, commendable work, but both of these areas should be burning the midnight oil putting together the answers to the obvious questions, evicting the elephants in the room, and starting to establish a clear and easy method of communicating the case for independence to the vast grassroots groups and individuals, us.
One clear, and unambiguous signal that this is most definitely on, and my God, the comfy campaign walking shoes will be rescued from the backs of thousands of cupboards. I think too, a lot of the bickering would just fade away as the focus returns laser sharp towards the direction we should be aiming at.
#Independence is normal. Being governed by another country is not.
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