I noticed on Friday that another pro independence party made it through the Electoral Commission vetting. The AFI have had a long struggle however at last they are officially recognised. You would expect that independence supporters would be welcoming this new option to the independence fight. You would be wrong. Sadly, if the treatment of the ISP is anything to go by alleged Independence supporters will spend more time attacking this new party than promoting it. I choose the opposite. I will give AFI my full support as I have with ISP and Scotia Future.I would also respectfully plead all three of them to work out a joint strategy to maximise the outcome do not act like rivals!
Even although up until now I have been promoting the Super Majority for independence by showing my support for SNP1 / ISP2 I will now add caveats over different regions and the progress of AFI. My preferred choice is still a super-Indy majority the colour of the party rosettes is of much less interest to me.
Till now even though I have promoted SNP1 ISP2 vast numbers of trolls and devotees on social media wrongly accuse me of being a member of ISP only promoting ISP or at worst being a unionist plant. Let me once again make clear I am not a member of any political party. I have only ever been a member of the SNP. I doubt now, I will ever again be a member of any other party. My vote is now a floating vote for the first time since 1974.You now need to earn my vote it is no longer your right to expect it every election, earn it! Think about that the next time you decide to begin abusing me.
The fact that I have urged SNP in the Constituency or only ever voted SNP is overlooked by my detractors. I am not seen as an SNP supporter I am seen as an enemy of the Party. Why? Apparently because I go against the SNP 1 2 mantra. A mantra incidentally that gives Unionists a landslide victory in the regional votes. Research D’Hondt/AMS.
When I write articles pointing out the obvious flaws and questionable behaviour and actions of the SNP leadership the facts and truth are discounted because I am according to the deniers just an ISP/unionist plant.They will now need to add AFI to my list!
I will not go over all the old ground, suffice to say, I remain of the opinion that the SNP is still the main party to gain our independence. The ISP/AFI/SF are our allies and an added insurance policy. They can also keep the SNP feet to the fire.
The SNP leadership is in my opinion derelict in its duty of advancing the independence cause. The present leader inherited a Party in great health with over 126,000 members a huge bank balance and a united Yes Movement.
Six years on around 50% of that membership have now resigned from the SNP. Anecdotal stories are suggesting in the past few weeks alone another 15,000 members have taken flight. There is no money to fight the upcoming election or any subsequent referendum. Though the likelihood of a referendum is unlikely unless SNP change their idiotic 11 Point Plan.It would be better known as a one step refusal.
There is a question mark over the missing ring fenced independence campaign money. The YES Movement has long since splintered into individual tiny groups throughout the country. It is though heartening that Now Scotland a brainchild of AUOB has entered to fill that void. It too will receive my support.
It is though indicative of the lack of decent leadership that it is not the SNP that nurtured a wider Yes Movement. The leadership of the SNP and wider movement has been sadly lacking in Sturgeon’s tenure. It may make uncomfortable reading however it is true. As I have written all the indicators, membership, funds and wider movement have declined to almost critical levels on Sturgeon’s watch.
That there is now three new Independence Parties with another two awaiting approval should alarm supporters of Independence and SNP members alike.I just cannot understand why SNP members, are not asking the difficult questions.
Why have individuals and groups of voters lost confidence in the SNP? Instead, we have accusations of betrayal of being MI5 or unionist plants because we won’t just ignore the lack of progress towards independence by the SNP and we do ask the awkward questions.
The present leader of the SNP has spent more time in England trying to overturn the English vote for Brexit than she has done promoting independence for Scotland. She has marched on Anti-Brexit and Gay Pride marches but never on a single AUOB Scottish Independence March and Rally. She has addressed crowds at The People’s Vote events and Gay Pride but never has she addressed her own supporters the length and breadth of Scotland at AUOB events.Why would any serious political leader of an independence movement pass up the chance to address a crowd of 250,000 committed independence supporters and voters? Maybe because her main objective is not the same as the independence supporters priority? If the Unionists could get a quarter of a million people to march in the streets of Edinburgh, do you think Boris would ignore it or would he arrive and milk it for all it was worth? Yet despite countless opportunities Sturgeon has never come near AUOB and the grassroots.
We had the sham rally in George Sq. in the autumn of 2019 organised by The National newspaper. It was billed as an Independence event it was, though, an SNP choreographed General Election rally. It was here the SNP leader told us that if we wanted to avoid Brexit and have an Independence referendum in 2020 we needed to vote SNP at the UK General election. We did, of course, fat lot of good it did us! Though we were assured, this mandate would force Westminster to listen. It didn’t happen! Sadly as we know a mere six weeks after the UK General Election in December 2019 Sturgeon made her now infamous capitulation speech on the Mound.
What six weeks previously had been as near to a solemn promise as possible of a referendum in 2020 was not now going to happen.Indeed, she needed one more mandate in 2021 at Holyrood to absolutely guarantee a referendum in 2021.She went further in her speech she promised us that by the end of 2020 a draft bill for a referendum would be on the statute at Holyrood.That didn’t happen either!
Now we are once again being told that if we give her just one more mandate the Tories will definitely agree to a Gold Standard Section 30 Independence Referendum in 2021. The day after the May election she promises us she will have a draft referendum bill to put on the statute at Holyrood, again.
Is it any wonder others have stopped listening to the SNP and decided to take matters into their own hands? New Independence Parties are being formed and nobody should be surprised.Progress on Independence has been negligible since 2014.
Rising polls, are often used as a defence of the criticism regarding the lack of Independence momentum by Sturgeon. It is a red herring. The polls in Wales for Plaid and in Northern Ireland for reunification have been rising in the same manner and timescales as in Scotland. All began climbing after the Tory General Election landslide. They poll rises are not down to Sturgeon, they are down to Brexit and a thumping Tory majority.
Devotees of the party and leader instead of attacking those that are now, actively seeking out alternative parties of Independence should instead be asking the SNP leadership some rather awkward questions.
They need to ask, how has it come to this? Why do huge swathes of our core support no longer trust the SNP? Why did you ever go after a former party leader in such a brutal and corrupt manner? What did you hope to achieve? How did you think that would improve the fortunes of the SNP or independence? Why when you received legal advice telling you the Judicial Review would go against you did you continue on regardless costing the tax payers upwards of £1million? Why did you then make matters worse by attempting a very amature cover up to try and hide your complicity in this farce of a prosecution and Judicial review? Why did you allow a British Civil Servant to involve the Crown Prosecutors against the wishes of the two original complainers? Why did you allow a leak from your office to the Daily Record of the accusations in this fiasco?
Why have you spent so much time promoting Gender Politics and so little time on Independence politics? Why have you catered to 0.04 % of the population and jeopardised the other 99.96% of the voting public with GRA? Why have you only ever spoken out for the ones doing the abusing and not spoken out for those being abused? Why would you sack the most popular MPs and put in place inferior replacements? Is loyalty now more important than talent? Why are those that speak out loudest for independence sidelined and those that speak up for biology denial promoted? Why is there not a single policy in place for post independence? Why is the Cabinet Secretary for Health not taking the daily Covid briefings? Why are you not spending every waking minute working for Scottish independence? Why are you allowing some of your MPs and MSPs to attack our pro independence media outlets?
Instead of trying to unite the party and movement Sturgeon and her acolytes, seem determined to drive a wedge amongst the YES Movement and supporters. Gender politics has become the raison d’etre of the SNP, not independence.
The things I have highlighted above explain why there are new Independence Parties springing up it seems every other day. Instead of addressing the why, it seems for many they prefer just to attack and bully the new indy parties on the block.
I still hope that by some miracle or realisation that May becomes a plebiscite election. I also hope that ISP AFI SF all cooperate and gain seats on the list giving us a, super-Indy majority. The bonus being to decrease the unionist voice too. I hope that those in favour of Independence stop the tribalism and do the arithmetic instead. A Super independence Holyrood majority has far greater clout and worldwide appeal than a tiny SNP majority. It is time the supporters of Independence reignited the pre-Sturgeon years. Remember the unity, the joy, the togetherness of 2014? She has destroyed that completely. She has not only allowed she has actively encouraged splinter groups to infiltrate the party all allegedly in the name of equality. It is the exact opposite it is all in the name of male dominance over women! It is time to get rid of the policies and people of division. We need to promote the one policy that unites us all, Independence!
I have had countless people saying just ignore all the wrongdoing, the lies, the subterfuge, Wheesht For Indy. I have been accused of a great many things because I dare to say what should be obvious to everyone. Nicola Sturgeon may be a good First Minister, but she has been a disaster for the SNP, the independence movement and a godsend for the British State.
MPs, MSPs and others whose salaries and pensions are dependent on the SNP can be cowed into submission. Those of us with no financial gain are not so easy to silence, no matter how hard Wishart tries! If the SNP elected members cannot find the courage to steady the ship it will be down to others to do that for them. I truly believe if something doesn’t change soon May’s elections could be a repeat of 2017 when over 500,000 SNP voters just stayed at home. Lessons have not been learned, independence motivates our base not autogynephiliacs. There are far more people in favour of Independence than there are people in favour of the SNP. MPs like Wishart would be advised to remember that the next time he encourages pile ons and hatred to be directed at pro-independence bloggers. His comfy London life, pension and desire to be the Speaker of the English Parliament is not the wish of the Scottish people. He may have forgotten Winnie Ewing’s wise words about settling up not settling down. But be assured little man we are watching you like a hawk. When the change comes, as surely it will we will not forget those that put themselves before the cause.
What an absolute stonker of a post BB. Don’t disagree with any of it. Our only chance of a real vote for independence in May is if there is a big shift in the “leadership” of the SNP,
Just watched Murrell again at the Inquiry. It makes me sick to the pit of my stomach that the Party I have always voted for has such malicious people like Murrell at the top but also the craven cowardly SNP MSPs on the Committee too scared to ask him anything but softball nonsense questions.
Great post Rodney, & your pain is there to be seen at just how the Party we have believed in for 50yrs + building it up to become the Government in Scotland. Could have turned out so wrong.. Every question you raise, are questions all of us who have been around all those years are also asking. WHY? when she inherited a huge membership, a huge bank balance, has she been allowed to bankrupt the party, lose so many members, spent the money that voters donated to an Independence referendum FUND, (A ref that has never really been on the cards under her leadership) also tried to jail a man she felt could be a threat to her way of leading, Yet to still be classed as a hero, all because she grabs the spotlight of daily updates & answers the PRESS questions. COVID has killed so many yet it has actually been her saviour.
I joined the ISP because I was just glad to see another INDY party that could maybe take a few seats from the UNIONISTS even from the GREENS as I abhor their stance on the GRA..
I knew the AFI were out there. But they seemed to be finding it difficult to get passed by the electoral Commission.. The one thing that does appeal to me about them is that they ARE prepared to work with all other parties, under the one umbrella for INDY..Allowing people to stand under the umbrella but maintain a standing as an INDEPENDENT, such as Martin Keatings is doing in my constituency. I would love to see ALL list indy parties do the same, GET TOGETHER to WORK TOGETHER…let’s have ONE huge Umbrella where we can even stand a few on the constituency, in seats where we know there are SNP MSPs that apart from going along with the stitch up of Alex Salmond, are just their for their huge salary. Because if they weren’t then they surely would have raised their heads above the parapet and spoken out when the nonsense of GRA & the HB were being proposed, never mind when NEC was being ignored..
I also hope that the SNP do NOT win an “outright” majority, because that will allow the leadership to follow her dream, which is obviously 5 more yrs of devolution. I know they need to be the largest party, but a party that will have to rely on other INDY people from the new parties, as I am sure even the greens will lose seats at the next election, due to their GRA stance & their treatment of Andy Whiteman.
So as much as Sturgeon may not want to see new parties. To get her budgets passed, & remain in government hopefully as a minority gov, but in a Parliament with a huge INDY representation. She can be curtailed in in her stupidity, & pushed along on INDY..
She’s on just now on the daily dog and pony Covid show —Earnest Nichola telling the prol how it is —totally sickening now given what’s coming out about her and those around her and one things for certain ,Scotland will never get its freedom with her as leader .She has never had any intention of following through on her now numerous mandates and as for GRA and the like —give me strength !
like yourself I would hope that these new Independence parties would find common ground to Unite for Indy but as we both know there are egos to be massaged so thats ah furlong hope on my part . I have campaigned for SNP since Winnie Ewing’s day & attended every rally/indy event all over Scotland ( a Coffin Dodger) and supported Auob at the start until i seen the scamming of my fellow Indy supporters ( people at the end of the day seen it for themselves ie Manny Singh taking all Auob’s money & the 10% given to bucket collectors + Mackay taking monies for a wheelchair for his mother I tried warning people but i suffered the abuse Auob committee & hingers on i Wouldn’t give in to their demands of monies from stalls ( i with volunteers ran the WoScotland stall ) & warned stall holders about monies being taken from donation buckets Mackay being caught red handed at Bannockburn rally going behind stalls removing money from his collection bucket . I dont blame Nicola Sturgeon for not attending a Auob rally she would be well aware of the corruption of Auob . The Now Scotland i said i wouldn’t support because Mackay/McKechnie/McNamarra were on the committee I put that statement up Craig Murray’s blog witch i later retracted as I know many of the new committee personally & they are committed to Independence as I am Im getting a lot of abuse from the Heid in the Sand SNP/Wokists lot ( watter aff ah ducks back am to auld in the heid for clowns to annoy me ) keep up the good work BB
Great blog, BB.
TY Lorna
Absolutely brilliant. I agree with every word.
Polling must be showing a drop in support . MSPs must be getting worried. Some are bound to find the courage to speak up – I hope. The SNP will lose a lot of MSPs fighting the May election on a genderwoowoo ticket. And who is going to vote SNP on the list with the absolute self-serving roasters who will be top of the list ? ( I believe one of the woke is hoping to identify as disabled as she/he/it has diabetes).
I will be voting for ISP with my second vote, if they confirm they regard the May vote as a plebiscite on independence.
P.S. When are the gebderwoowoo and humza hate-crime going to be told to wheesht for indy ? The twelfth of never ?
I became sickened with Sturgeon after the Mark McDonald affair I knew RZ was behind this from day 1, and it was the pre-curser to get bigger fish, they could screw with Mark and work place bully the guy, for being upfront and with not an intention of fingered that person. well i wouldn’t either. Yet Surgeon and her cronies hounded Mark out, cast him as a sexual predator, when all along he was just saying it as it is. But alas, that is the sign of the modern Scotland, where heterosexual men are the enemy. So, could step in to fill the vacancy of poor Mark, Alex, Oh no Says Murrell, I hate him, And as for the Murrell’s, i saw their marriage as a marriage of convenience, rumours are that Nicky doesn’t bat for heterosexual women as is proved by the GRA.
Absolutely nothing to disagree with there, Roddy. Your credentials, passion and long experience in the movement are all there to be seen, in stark contrast with your would-be detractors who speak from a position amounting to willful ignorance, or even worse. Unity of purpose and close cooperation amongst the smaller parties from a regional perspective, as you suggest, will be essential if a genuinely pro-Independence majority is ever to appear in Hollyrood and hold the S.N.P. to account. It is sadly ironical to say it, but the last thing the independence movement needs is a large S.N.P. majority in the May elections, that is, I hasten to add: under the party’s presently, diabolical leadership and its dumb-struck parliamentary, acolytes. A situation less likely to occur, in any case, with each day that passes and with each revelation that emerges. I’ll finally say, Roddy: you will easily dispatch your detractors by reminding them exactly who it was that stood silently by and allowed this tragedy we now see, to happen, by means of their blind sycophancy and political naivety. An excellent piece.
Josef
Personally I think a large SNP majority would be a good thing. When the membership of the SNP see that nothing is done about independence then they may finally come to their senses and get a leadership that actually wants independence.
Hi Cubby: If those remaining haven’t already noticed, I doubt whether a “large majority” in May will make much difference to them. And, as Kevin McKenna recently opined: Most voters won’t be familiar with the minutia surrounding the A.S. affair but, given the recent revelations and those yet to come, they don’t have to know the ins-and-outs to know that the current S.N.P. leadership has been ‘taking-the-piss’.
Sounds Sound thinking to me.
Please lay off with the transphobic language. You should understand that, much like the Jewish Community was used as a factional delineator in the LP, the trans community has become that for the independence movement. In both cases these communities where the collateral damage and both were/are spearheaded by agents supposedly from within these communities. Other than that I agree with what you have written.
I allow freedom of speech and thought here. In return I expect the same courtesy. I do not lecture you on what language to use, don’t try to tell me or use the Anti Semitism reference pish with me either.
OK so I think there is a bigger picture here Roddy that I don’t think you are seeing but that’s an aside. I too am absolutely about free speech but calling trans women “autogynephiliacs” crosses the line on ignorance and pejorative language. It’s unnecessary, inaccurate and it cheapens your words.
There you again trying to impose your will on my freedom of speech.
It’s inaccurate and demeaning to trans women. A quick google search will tell you autogynephilia is so rare it’s not worth a mention. You are stoking resentment and further division. I’m not forcing anything on you, I’m exercising the counterbalance to freedom of speech which is to tell you your language is out of order and has no place in the modern world. People shouldn’t let this stuff go unchallenged or we will never move on as a species. Do you call black people n****** still? I would hope not but yours is an equivalent remark. I get you are old but show some decency man.
No you told me to remove it from my blog you tried to press your values on me why you cannot accept that reality escapes me.
Re:
‘calling trans women “autogynephiliacs” crosses the line on ignorance and pejorative language’
I can see no such statement in the post.
The TRA faction behave in a very different way to any Trans people I’ve worked with and it is perfectly reasonable to wonder why.
It is not reasonable to censor that line of thought.
Great post BB
Not that free then?
Was your post removed or edited? How much freer can I be?
Glad to see it back, thanks
Was the GRA ever put in a manifesto? Even tucked away somewhere? I don’t think so or the tories would have had a real go at it in the campaign. Independence was and it should be a priority. I never joined a political party before now I have registered with the ISP because I’m absolutely scunnered with the SNP/Greens. All we ever wanted to do was vote SNP on mass and leave this wretched Union but as much as these new indie voices are welcome I think they are too late. I hate sounding defeated but the SNP won’t use this election as a plebiscite and the way they have fought against the keatings case makes me think they are not that arsed in doing anything any time soon. I hope to God I’m wrong but this is the best shot we will ever have and it is going to pass us by whimpering, we just don’t have the time for ISP or anyone else to grow. I’m afraid the baw is already burst
Superb – if only those who can do something about it would take note.
All the best buddy, keep it up. I know you don’t support a team because they’re always winning. It’s because their values are Scotland first.
I can’t disagree with your views. I think although there may be a massive drop in memberships of the SNP, the fact that the polls look so good and that the SNP are the only option for achieving independence, will bring the landslide required. I see an opportunity on the list, if organised properly, to get another Indy party enough seats to be the official opposition. That way, the Scottish public can really hold the SNP feet to the fire over indy and the day job. A much better outcome than a UK party that bickers about everything through a constitutional lens.
Another thought is that, these ‘indy-lite’ folk at the top of the SNP may be getting quite comfortable in their well-paid positions of influence. Independence will probably finish the SNP as an organisation due to its broad-church nature. It’ll break into factions after indy. Independence will terminate the gravy-train. Maybe they’d rather keep travelling on their status quo, first-class tickets.
I agree will every work of this article. It is 100% correct. Well said
Cath Jones :
Transphobic language – Have you read the tweets of the genderwoowoo lobby. Terfs, cis, death threats and hate crime are commonplace. The trans lobby actively howl down debate, complain incessantly and actively campaign to have folk sacked. They lie unashamedly regarding how ill-treated they are. Yet they have the thinnest skins in the world. They are the bullies’ bully. Sadly for whatever reason they have a number of willing handmaidens.
Their anti-science misogyny deserves all the ridicule it gets.
If I saw that, I would call them out too. There’s no call for the way the discourse on this issue is conducted. The language is clearly transphobic and I’m calling it out. If you want to walk on by on the other side of the road that’s your business.
Don’tcha just love the wokeratti and their handmaidens. Comprehensively lose the argument – they virtue signal – then flounce off.
Supporting genderwoowoo will result in a lot more of Fallon Fox and a lot more women having their skulls bashed in (don’t google unless you have a very strong stomach).
Well said, BB. The SNP have not been a pro indy party for many years and are hemorrhaging supporters as a direct result. There are always things to distract folk from what is truly happening and many are all too willing to jump on that distraction rather than address the elephant in the room. Taking responsibility is taboo. What I have found most disturbing is the number of folk saying that the Scottish government can only focus on one thing – covid. That does not bode well for the prospects of a Scottish state which would have to govern a country in all aspects as well as act in the country’s interest during a time of potential national emergency. If the current government cannot deliver its statehood during this time then they never will.
Agree with everything you said apart from “Nicola Sturgeon may be a good First Minister”.
Alex Salmond was a good First Minister and did a lot of good things for Scotland when he was in power. She on the other hand is a complete disaster area. Just look at her fruits
and the trouble she’s causing. Certainly nothing about it is good!
I think it is important to separatecherxrolesxas, First Minister of Scotland and Party Leader. I stand by my opinion she has done the job of FM more than adequately however she should not be doing daily briefings as FM as a Party Leader she has been an unmitigated disaster. If she was a CEO she would have been removed several years ago.
I cannot believe that people are on here saying that these alt-indie partys are going to get us a super majority at the May election. I have looked in-depth at the possible figures in my region of Mid-Scotland & Fife. The alt-indie Partys (SSP & Rise) managed 0.8% of the vote in 2016. I ran the numbers with the alt-indie Partys with 6.8% and they indeed did win a list seat. Unfortunately, as most of the alt-indie votes would come from the SNP, the Tories would win 4 seats and Labour 2. So only 1 Independence party and 6 unionist. The only way realistically that we can get 2 indie partys in MS&F, is that the Greens were to double their vote (they may win 2 list seats),or the SNP get over 50% of the list votes, where they may take 1 seat and the Greens take 1. The electoral system makes it very hard for anyone to get a super majority.
BTW for one list seat the alt-indie partys would need to increase their share of the vote by 8.5 times, an unrealistic expectation in my view. I have looked at the ISP website, they have a campaign fund with a target of £88,000 but have only managed to get £5611 with 18 days left, with 220 supporters. They are a tiny party and remember, that this 6.8% alt-indie group is not one party, it could be split between 4 or 5 small partys. They will not provide a super majority at this time. Their time may come in the future but we all have to be realistic about things. I know many of you will not like what I have said, but I think everyone should take a good look at the numbers as they are not conducive to a super majority.
“The electoral system makes it very hard for anyone to get a super majority.” The system doesn’t but the voters do.
If independence supporters voted SNP in their consituency and say ISP on the regional list then that would give an independence super majority.
Sorry Cubby, its not as simple as that. The electoral system does make it almost impossible to have a super majority – it was used for that purpose. Do you really think that all the SNP voters are going to switch to the ISP at this late stage? I’m genuinely sorry to say that this is just a fantasy, most of them will not even have heard of the ISP. A properly united Yes movement party may be required in the future, but it just a hopeless dream at this coming election
Rodmid
I never said all SNP supporters would switch now to ISP. So I do not know why you introduce this point. I said IF they did – as in for example.
My comment was that in theory it is voters combined with what parties put up for election not the actual electoral system that prevents a super majority and that is correct. There is no artificial intelligence or anything that stops a super majority. There is a method of working out who gets elected and that’s it.
It is a fallacy that is oft repeated that the system was designed to stop a super majority. That is just plain wrong. Another example – the SNP gets 90% of the constituency vote and 90% of the Regional list vote spread evenly. You think in that scenario the SNP will not get a super majority.
“I choose the opposite. I will give AFI my full support as I have with ISP and Scotia Future.I would also respectfully plead all three of them to work out a joint strategy to maximise the outcome do not act like rivals!”
Good point, well made, Barrhead Boy. As someone who has been promoting the Max the YES idea and the idea of a single Yes alliance on the list, and as an AFI Steering Group member, I couldn’t agree more.
We are not enemies. The Tory Unionist Britnat state and their vacuous blowhards currently sitting in the opposition seats in Holyrood are the enemy.
Jimmy Reid once said (and I paraphrase that the Establishment seem all powerful ‘but if we a’ spit the gither we’d droon the bastards!’
AFI’s plea to our fellow indy list only parties is that we simply sit down and talk – face to face, (on zoom under Covid conditions, obviously, but I hope you know what I mean) – to see if we can come together and build a bridgehead to an indy super-majority and independence TOGETHER.
Please use whatever links and relationships you have at your disposal to carry this message to other indy comrades (and they are comrades) in the ISP and other indy list only parties.
Steve Arnott: AFI Steering Group and 2014 originator of the Max the YES idea.
Steve as I said on your FB Page I am not a, member of any political party ISP has been receiving my support till now because let us be honest until Friday AFI was just an idea.
Three alt-SNP parties, plus the Greens, is just stupid. This needs sorted if there is to be any chance of delivering any seats.
Greens are not an independence Party
Does AFI have a proper manifesto like ISP?
It is my understanding they will not have a manifesto of policies the policies of the parties and individuals that join their grouping will be their only policies.
Just for general consumption
Scotia Future has a manifesto the main elements of which are reflected on our website http://www.scotia-future.scot
Thrust is for real independence outlining what we plan to do after independence
Giving people policies which would be adopted when we achieve nationhood
Chic Brodie. Leader Scotia Future
Welcome Chic
Mark Hirst is planning to sue the Crown for wrongful prosecution. Through civil liberties Scotland a crowd funder has been launched. Mark has said if successful, which his action may very well be, then donations to be paid back.
If Rangers directors can pursue the Crown successfully, just think of the political message Mark’s win would send.
A little from many makes a lot, makes these things happen. Link to crowdfunded is –
https://civillibertyscotland.com/
in all the years that the SNP have a majority in Holyrood not one proposal had been advanced to clean up the voting system , everyone and their dug knows that the voting system foisted on the Scottish People was designed to keep Unionists in positions in a Scottish Parliament , 1st PTP system is good enough for Westminster it should be good enough for Holyrood Not this system that a lot of voters dont understand we have at National/Local level .
Jesus wept BB you have the patience of a saint re that Cath Jones like all Truth deniers when losing the debate they try the distraction technique of Anti Semitism/Unionist Troll ect ect ect . I have had the same levelled at myself for sharing Your Blog/Craig Murray/Stuart Campbell/GrouseBeater blogs on Yes Pages but am ah Big Boay Ah float wie the punches . Keep it up BB .