This week we return to our normal shows. The month of March was spent on the road. We open the show with the regulars, Lloyd Quinan, Eva Comrie and Phil Boswell. We discuss the last month and our roadshows in Dundee, Perth, Dunfermline and Aberdeen.
Meeting some of the people that watch our shows help us in TASP keep focused on delivering what is important to our audience. The feedback and camaraderie were fantastic. Time and again and in every location the message was the same, the people want unity of the movement and they want independence now. No more division and internal fighting. The Political Parties better start paying attention. The public are sick and fed up with the self-promotion and squabbling. They want unity and action on independence, not virtue signalling, gravy slurping and junkets!
With both Parliaments closed things should have been relatively quiet. Indeed, if it had been so, perhaps we might have taken a week off too. However, with the SNP/Green Scottish Government’s discredited Hate Crime Bill coming into law on April 1st (How appropriate!) the panel had an issue that warranted detailed debate.
For the first time in 10 years a poll this week shows the British Labour Party leading the SNP in voting intentions for the Westminster Parliament in England. We debate if this is an outlier or a result of SNP/Green incompetence at Holyrood. Will the SNP arrest this decline in fortunes before the upcoming UK General Election or is their tiny Edinburgh political bubble hermetically sealed?
Over everything that is happening in Scotland and the UK the ongoing genocide in Gaza dominates the global news, and so it should. A terrible injustice is unfolding before us, and our politicians are ignoring the vast majority of the population and continue to support the slaughter and starvation of innocent civilians by the US backed Israeli apartheid regime in Palestine.
Six hundred UK lawyers including two ex-Supreme Court Justices have written to the UK Government warning that the ICJ ruling that there is in all likelihood a genocide in Palestine it is incumbent upon them as our government to do everything in its power to stop this atrocity. We debate, will the politicians listen or are they all compromised by Israeli funding?
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Here is a link to the article that Eva mentioned by Jim Sillars:
“We must all resist this hollowing out of our democracy”
https://web.archive.org/web/20240403043253/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13264975/JIM-SILLARS-resist-hollowing-democracy.html
The Yougov article:
“YouGov MRP – Labour now projected to win over 400 seats”
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49061-yougov-mrp-labour-now-projected-to-win-over-400-seats
Phil mentions The Indian Council of Scotland post on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ScotlandFriendsofIndia/posts/pfbid02fnxH3JcSj7jpKC3k4KKnv7JRZYtwQxmEDd1dUJ3nWifL2B689e1Y8jp54LKYB6rxl
“Alan Duncan being investigated by Conservative Party after criticising fellow Tories for Israel support”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/alan-duncan-investigated-conservative-party-israel/
“Former supreme court judges say UK arming Israel breaches international law”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/former-supreme-court-judges-say-uk-arming-israel-breaches-international-law?ref=publicsquare.uk
Danny Morrison an open letter:
https://poetrybirmingham.com/danny-morrison-open-letter
Talking of tours, I hope this is acceptable, Roddy.
Where next? (Answer at the end of this post.)
The Declaration of a Scot initiative is looking for – and increasingly finding – those who are 100% committed to telling all the countries of the world that no matter the obstacles – the people of Scotland intend to, AND WILL, regain their country’s independence.
At the end of last year I made my New Year Resolution: To do my best to ensure that EVERY ONE who wants to sign their individual Declaration of a Sovereign Scot (and be remembered) will be able to do so. So far this year that has taken me to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline, and last week to Arbroath.
Some of my current potential plans, in addition to every Rally, are:
1) places heading south on the west coast
2) towns across the borders
None of that is fixed yet, no dates are set, and for those who work on Saturdays, unlike rallies they won’t always be on Saturdays.
I will always try to give as much notice as I can when the visits are finalised and the dates known.
Again with no dates yet arranged – but in response to specific requests – I have given firm committments to include Dundee, Ayr, Rothes and some of our Scottish Islands. Again, I will post when dates are definite.
So finally, and thanks for reading this far – let’s give you the answer – where next?
The Rally at Freedom Square on Saturday 20th April,
That is definite! I hope to see you there!