Cruelty

We are in the midst of actual genuine chaos, fabricated chaos and over-the -top hyped-up chaos, brought about by rabid negative propaganda by the unionist media and their wee pals in Holyrood and the Palace of Westminster, full of glee over the fractious SNP leadership race and the fractures and disruptions caused by the resignation of the long-term SNP Chief Executive.

However, whilst all of this distraction is taking place, we are witnessing, in its immigration policy ,an act by the Tory government so heinous in its inception and development that surely the vast majority of Scots, with party allegiances or none, will baulk at the inhumanity on display, once more driving that wedge for the rightful necessity of self-government further into the heart of the dysfunctional relationship between the governments of Scotland and England.

Seeing photographs of Home Secretary Sue-Ellen Braverman positively beaming, laughing and grinning like she’d just found a spare hundred thousand pounds down the back of the settee, at the thought of piling on misery and desperation to groups of vulnerable, war torn and displaced human beings, looking only to better their and their children’s lives, makes me want to puke, but It also makes me seethe with anger.

Is this the actions of a government you want to be associated with? They constantly talk of this horrendous plan to demonise exhausted migrants seeking shelter and fly them out to fake cosmetically sanitised, for public consumption, concentration camps in an African nation with a history of sectarian tribal slaughter, as being something they are doing because ‘the majority of the British people want us to”. Are you one of those people? I look around my friends and family members and I don’t see anyone with those views. Who are these people?

We’re talking about the treatment of human beings here, not cattle.

Having been cut off from the European Community and the freedom to live, work and thrive in the many countries of Europe, you’ve now to be governed by a political party (and at this point Labour are just as wicked) who for all intents and purposes intend to proceed with far right-wing policies akin to the 1930’s. (For the benefit of those who belittle the likes of Gary Lineker and Mick Lynch, saying that they are exaggerating the nature of the extremity of the policy, yes, it is very much along the same lines as the rise of all that was concocted to create an us and them scenario, persecuting minorities at will.)

They proceed on the basis that by doing nothing about their abhorrent acts, by not protesting, by not pressurising your elected members, by not taking the necessary steps to politically run this crew of shady characters out of government, then in fact you are providing them with your tacit agreement to do what they like with impunity.

I find it very hard to believe that even a marginal majority of people of England would find any of this Rwanda stuff palatable. I absolutely do believe that the vast majority of the people of Scotland are disgusted at the very thought of such actions.

That, my friends, despite all the faffing around, incompetence, in-fighting and chaos that currently exists within, and surrounding, the party of devolved limited powers government in Scotland, will ensure that very soon a clear and strong message will emerge, even stronger than before, from north of the Tweed, that Independence is not about a political party, it is an ideal, it is the norm, it is right. Scotland’s government should always reflect its people’s views. Democracy will prevail. 

As the eminent historian Tom Devine said in 2014 “It is the Scots who succeeded most in preserving the British idea of fairness and compassion in terms of state support and intervention. Ironically, it is England, since the 1980’s, which has embarked on a separate journey”.

He was not wrong.