Eva Comrie was born in the heart of Scotland at Stirling, brought up in Blairlogie, Crieff and Alva and educated with the help of a student grant at Edinburgh where she studied law. Eva runs her own legal practice and specialises in family and child law. Now a candidate for ALBA party
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As a fairly regular listener, that one, to nab eva’s phrase; was tip top.
The internal market bill is designed to remove national health services, and that alone it makes the case for SNP1 Alba 2.
Unfortunately Roddy,
It’s my belief that the SNP are happy to govern in a devolved state rather than an Independent Scotland and string the electorate along continuously.
This is due to the fact that they’re comfortable in their roles and happy to be subservient to Westminster and make the occasional noise when required.
I also believe the albaparty.org is definitely needed to keep the SNP in check and moving in the right direction, as a lot of us were without a political home.
Keep producing the good work.
Saor Alba Gu Bráth 🏴🏴🏴🏴
Great stuff, BB and Eva.
Time is, indeed, of the essence now because there will be much that it will be almost impossible, if not impossible, for us to overturn even if we were independent. International trade deals are obligations that are not easily shrugged off, and even those within the UK itself will be binding on us in many cases unless we can appeal to the international court to set them aside.
As for the votes: nearly a million last time wasted, allowing Unionists into seats. If you take just seats alone (at the present time, I mean, even with the SNP in power at Holyrood) they do not reflect Scotland’s electoral democratic intentions. If it is fair and democratic to acknowledge the force of the 55% in the 2014 referendum, it can be no less fair and democratic to count, in an election, which is the primary expression of our democratic process, the number of votes overall for all pro independence parties as indicative of the desire for independence. That makes any Scottish election a plebiscite by default.
The Unionists bleat about ‘gaming the system’. Let them. It is completely democratic and fair. If, for example, the SNP, Alba, the Greens and the other pro independence parties and groupings get over 50% of the vote in May, that could and should be taken to signify that a majority of Scots want independence, and we take it from there; if pro independence parties take the majority of seats and a high percentage of the votes (the former is unlikely without the latter, and vice versa if the List is used wisely) then that, just as much should be taken to mean that the majority of Scots want independence, and take it from there.
Will the SNP do that, will it interpret matters in that way? If past record is anything by which to judge, absolutely not. There will be more fluff about mandates and waiting and independence as an aspiration for the distant future. If the Alba Party can gain even one or two seats, the SNP can be held to account, be forced to honour its raison d’être. The SNP does not belong to Nicola Sturgeon and her coterie. They stole it from under the feet of many, many dedicated independistas and turned it into a party pop so-called equality for all but the Scots and women (and children).
Alec Salmond has stated that he would not rule out a S30 Order. Quite so. Nothing should be ruled out: no path or route should be dropped without close study as to its viability; and please, please, Alba, get that Treaty studied very, very closely, because the moment we are independent, England-as-the-UK will seek to exploit it to its own advantage and to our detriment, as happened at its birth and in its infancy, and ever since. No 18th century agreement can be ‘for all time coming’ because that does not reflect present-day democracy, so forget that nonsense; however, the Treaty’s Articles are legal in other ways, the trade ones, for example, and will be exploited by England; and the Treaty’s Articles are essential for any trade negotiations between the two countries because they underpin the UK. The Internal Market legislation is domestic, and, as such, cannot overturn international law, and that must be borne in mind. We have an ace in the Treaty. The Treaty Articles are the foundation of the UK and cannot be by-passed, or the Union falls automatically. That, too must be borne in mind when Westminster tries its sleekit moves, as it will.
It will not be enough, as those smart Scottish and English lawyers in the HoL realized, in their attempts to renegotiate the Treaty as a domestic legal agreement (that was an attempted sleight of hand, so we cannot afford to fall for this stuff), to simply repeal the Acts of Union because they are the domestic reflections of the international treaty which cannot be ruled on, finally, except in international law (unless they are absolutely in accordance with it) and international law takes precedence over domestic law. We must always keep the international community, the UN and international law in mind at all times. These could be our saviours in more ways than one.
Totally Agree Dave ..
I have always known that 2 votes SNP was not helping independence….but I did it because there was no other choice. I could not vote Green for various reasons. Until The Alba Party was announced last week my intention was to spoil my first ballot and I was hoping there would be an ISP candidate. Now I can maybe still do 1 SNP ( I have yet to decide) but whatever happens between now and 6th of May my 2nd vote is for ALBA. Last week I left the SNP, joined ALBA and cancelled my subscription to The National.
Both votes SNP is not intended to support the Yes movement but rather control the Yes movement.
When the SNP are the only game in town there’s nowhere to turn when they do nothing.
Great podcast, Roddy! I think Eva is going to be a real boon to the Alba Party! Her enthusiasm for the Party & her determination to work toward Independence was extremely heartening! I can see she will be a real ‘team player’! Thank you Eva!! And thank you, BB!
That was a thorough enjoyable interview. Listening to Eva speak I was reminded so much of Margo MacDonald.
Thank you for this fine Podcast, and if I may say, that while this archipelago (the so-called UK), is influenced by that London government and the Unionists are what they THINK they are – plus their government is deemed as being a sovereign entity, by THEM… yet, in Scotland, sovereignty was ceded to Scotland’s population: Scotland’s people ARE truly sovereign!
More of the same please,
Ewen
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