Every opinion poll since 2014 has shown that support for independence remains the preferred option for the Scottish voters. This in itself is amazing when you consider that there has been no official campaigning on independence since September 2014!
The SNP and Greens rolling out the independence word in their manifestos every election is not a campaign. From the 1970s the SNP was campaigning every day for independence. That is why in 2007 the party won its first ever General election. Since then it has won every election, sadly though from the day Sturgeon took over the party independence campaigning ceased. Worse still she began a campaign of attacking those that did attempt to campaign for independence.
She has never attended an AUOB March and rally. She didn’t even send her deputies with a message of support for the marchers. These are the hardcore independence supporters and campaigners and she disowned them. In fact it became the ‘party thing’ to attack them and those of us in the pro-independence media that were pushing the cause.
That was amplified when the pandemic began and Sturgeon became ‘Chief Mammy.’ At her daily press conferences she only invited pro-unionist rags to hear her pearls of wisdom and her personal suffering. Worse still her government gave that same anti- Scottish media grants to help them with their lost revenues during covid. Protect the enemies of Scotland and destroy the champions of Scotland was her way.
This was all part of her plan to destroy the Yes Movement. The reason; she couldn’t micro manage it, nor control it and switch it from independence to gender movement! She and her embezzling husband orchestrated the demise of all that had made independence possible post 2014! The campaigning for the cause that had given the SNP its status was stopped. Big mistake, it worked then, and it would work now!
That split today manifests itself in the latest polling for Westminster. While support for independence is at 52%, support for the SNP is at 29%. This though, because of the vagries of FPTP voting is not an issue, the SNP will make huge gains because Labour has fallen to 18%!
If the SNP began a campaign today, I truly believe by the time the bells ring on Hogmanay independence would be sitting at 60%+. If we held a Constitutional Convention for the entire movement, it would sell-out in minutes. The people are ready, the problem is the leading independence party is sitting in neutral as it has been since November 2014.
Other polling this week showed that over 40% of Scots are now in favour of a UDI route to independence. Something that a couple of years ago would have had you in the ‘nutters section’ of the movement is now mainstream. It shows that the people are desperate and are willing to explore any avenue that could take us out of the union. An electoral event, followed by UDI is now the preferred and only credible route to self-determination.
As with all the initiatives for independence the SNP distances itself from all of them. Inadvertently or otherwise the SNP have become the roadblock to independence. The Union’s greatest defence against Scottish secession is not the House-Jock political parties, it is the SNP!
This is the main topic of our podcast this week. I am joined by Terry Howson, Eva Comrie and Phil Boswell to discuss this and other matters that are viewed Through A Scottish Prism.
The NuSnp are not fit for purpose, what we do need if there are any left in the NuSnp is the real Independence MP’s and MSP’s to walk away, get involved with Independence movement and form one credible Indy Party, they must be open and truly honest with the people and explain to those who doubt Indy why it will work truthfully, it is the only way forward do with the NuSnp what we did to Labour
I have always wondered if MI5 /the Establishment were involved – bribery? Backmail? Not attending AUOB marches and trying to destroy the man who had led Scotland to the brink of independence by using character assassination and foul lies to attempt to get him imprisoned… it still seems to me that she was a quisling paid to destroy the independence movement. It was getting too close for the establishment to allow the loss of its Cash Cow.
Excellent show guys. Great to hear you talking about UDI – I’d only add the specificity of #SCOTTISH UDI, as what’s conceived is different from, eg the Rhodesia version.
Also definitely progress that this idea getting more traction within the broader Independence demographic – and not before time.
I believe this reflects the growing awareness/acknowledgement that the Brit State will NEVER willingly accede to the restoration of Scotland’s stolen & sold status as an Independent Nation – in fact, will never even * allow * another Referendum on the issue.
If this is the case, maybe the next stage will be arriving at the related recognition that the current SNP are hopelessly ineffectual, corrupted and the most insidious obstacle to achieving our goal
It is the only viable route to independence? No it isn’t. It is one route. Not the only route. Likewise, Scotland is not breaking from a parent country. It is restoring it’s full statehood by terminating a bilateral treaty. That is restoration not secession.
A convention of the realm is the way to go but not with gatekeepers. The movement needs its business, legal, economic and civic sectors to get together and collectively utilise Scots sovereign authority. The government has constitutionally abdicated it’s solemn duty. Therefore, it falls on the ordinary sovereign people’s of Scotland to uphold their Constitutional, sovereign and fundamental rights. In a couple months time they may also have the international recognition that many believe they require before they will act. The clock is ticking for those who seek to bring Scotland perpetually under English governance.
Was a good podcast today. While I disagree with a sole route, it was good to hear the constitution of Scotland being raised along with Scots sovereign authority. The route via majority delegation at state Parliament with a majority admin at Holyrood has been tried but dismissed by the SNP who the people believed would deliver. 56/59 MPs AND a majority admin was attained. It meant nothing. The constitutional abdication by both tiers of Scottish government leaves no room to utilise the political structures which are beholden to England. This means reverting Scots sovereign authority to the people where it constitutionally rests. Steps are being taken by not just Liberate Scotland and Salvo but civilians exercising their fundamental, sovereign constitutional rights also. Differences in approach do not mean that we disagree with the core policy. That Scotland rejects the systemic and generational treaty breaches and over reach by England and as such seeks to end the union. What should have been a partnership between equal peers was never meant to be dominion by one party to the treaty. Hopefully more will be discussed by the panel regarding Scotland’s constitutional law, it’s sovereign authority and the fundamental rights of the people. Scotland is not seeking to break from a parent country. (Great Britain is the creation) it is seeking to RESTORE its full statehood that was usurped by the illegal Unilateral simple majority vote imposed on the state Parliament by England prior to the systemic deconstruction of Scotland’s legal personality and implementation of English parliamentary conventions. (the UK written constitution being essentially the last piece they need to remove Scots constitutional law, sovereign authority and fundamental rights by replacing with English parliamentary sovereignty and English constitutional structure while retroactively giving credence to the systemic and generational treaty breaches from 1707 to present.)
That is my contention Gaylee, none of us know all the answers as individuals. However, I believe as a collective the sovereign people of Scotland can come up with a solution to our dilemma. Those that think they have the silver bullet and carry on in isolation are not driving us forward they are sliding us down. We need unity and h ity of purpose our independence IMHO is multi faceted and needs multiple coordinated actions
Hopefully the response from the UN in a couple months time to my petition, should they find in favour, will provide the next and most crucial step forward. Now is the time to prepare for whichever way the findings go.