It is an inarguable fact that since September 2014 the pro independence Media, AUOB and the remnants of the YES Movement have kept the flame of Independence flickering. Uncomfortable truth for some is this fact, not once in the intervening years has the Sturgeon led SNP done a single thing to further the cause of independence. There has not been a single campaign or even a discussion at Party Conference on Independence. For three years now the NEC has not discussed anything appertaining to independence!

For a party that has as its, raison d’etre, Independence this is quite incredible. Certainly at every election Nicola promises and says a Draft Referendum Bill will go through Holyrood imminently. Sadly, the reality is different. There is always some excuse not to proceed with independence. Appearances on GMB, Sky News or BBC London News and Gay Pride Marches are more important than appearances at AUOB Marches! Independence can also wait, until the next election.

It should never be forgotten the contribution to the 2014 independence cause from all the pro independence sites. The Wee Blue Book, in particular, did more to convert soft Nos to Yes than anything else in the entire campaign. Wings were not alone, many other bloggers and writers contributed greatly to the cause, some still do.

In 2015 when the UK General Election was called, the Indy media and YES Groups did their bit and the famous 56 SNP MPs were elected. The Party had never had such representation at Westminster, the SNP also controlled Holyrood and had more councillors than any other party in Scotland. The polls were favourable and the mood buoyant. Just a few short months later the Brexit catastrophe happened, it seemed the planets, were aligning for Scottish independence. Sadly the SNP did nothing but huff and puff. We threatened Westminster and promised the EU Nationals in Scotland they would not be forgotten. We would not be dragged out of the EU against our will, and they would be fine, so would our exporters, and indeed, all of us would be safe because we had a mandate! We would use it, sometime, just not yet. Nicola had a bigger mission she needed to overturn England’s democratic wishes not fulfill the Scottish democratic wishes.

Still the pro Indy media stayed onside. The AUOB Marches and Rallies grew in number, in people attending and in mood to campaign for independence. Still the call never came. Then a setback, Sturgeon decided at the UK General Election of 2017 it should be fought without any reference to the independence word. She went further and forbid any mention of the I word on any campaign material or on the streets or doorsteps. Still the voters and pro independence media stayed loyal but now there was for the first time ever some disquiet.The SNP lost 21 MPs.

Between 2017 and December 2019 we had the weakest UK Government in the history of the Union. The time was perfect to make our move. Instead of using our position of strength Nicola Sturgeon decided to help force a UK General Election. The numbers were favourable for the SNP to win back some seats. However, the arithmetic in Westminster was more favourable to Scottish self-determination if used wisely. Instead of Scotland’s best interests Nicola opted for SNP’s best interests. She wanted more SNP MPs in the English Parliament. The problem with this that after the election of 2019 the SNP no longer had any leverage. Still the pro independence media, stayed onside. Throughout all this time the Anti-Scottish MSM attacked the SNP, Independence, Nicola, the Bloggers, the Cybernats!

To appease the sceptics, prior to the election, the independence carrot was brought out of the cupboard again. The theme was simple, Vote SNP to Stop Brexit and then hold an Independence referendum in 2020. Almost all pro Indy media this writer included trusted and believed her. The YES Movement and supporters believed her. The SNP membership and supporters believed her. The Anti-Scottish MSM believed her and were apoplectic with unionist rage! Then just six weeks after all of those people gave her what she asked for, she reneged on a referendum again! The anti-Scottish media were happy!

On January, 31st, 2020, she made her now infamous capitulation speech. We would after all be getting dragged out of the EU against our will. All those promises by Nicola and Blackford were hollow rhetoric, nothing more. The EU Nationals promised so much before the election were thrown aside like an old pair of unwanted slippers. There would be no referendum in 2020 either.She did though promise, if we gave her another independence mandate in May 2021 she would for sure give us a referendum shortly after the election. She further promised that by the end of 2020 the Referendum Bill would be through Holyrood ready to go on day one after the May 2021 election. Four weeks out from the 2021 election the referendum bill still hasn’t completed its passage through Holyrood. It is another broken pledge.

I have to say it was on that day in January 2020 that I realised the SNP no longer did what it says on the tin. I know I am not alone in my despair.Since that day many of you have expressed the same feelings of hurt and betrayal.

Still I didn’t express too much of my inner feelings in my blogs. That was until the day the SNP gave a £3,000,000 financial stimulus to the Anti-Scottish MSM. That, for me, was the final straw. That was the day that I resigned my membership of the SNP. I did not however resign my desire or commitment for independence. I have continued to agitate for independence every since.

I realised in 2016 that both votes SNP was not a recipe to win SNP List Seats. The problem being that there was no other independence party to give my regional list X to. I have never been comfortable with Greens commitment to independence. Events since 2016 have confirmed my reticence was correct. OBFA showed that the Greens can very easily be seduced by Unionists. They have held the balance of power at Holyrood since 2016 however until a few, weeks ago they haven’t even mentioned independence let alone done anything to move Scotland towards our goal. That is why I and others embrace completely the arrival of the pro independence Alba Party.

It is now a fact that all the main pro independence media are fully behind the concept of Alba on the List. We see this as the best way to support Independence and remove Unionists from our parliament. Not a single pro independence blog is promoting bothvotes SNP. Why do you think that is the case? Is it because the pro independence media want or don’t want Independence now?

If you were to believe the MP for Perth and Perthshire all these pro independence writers and bloggers are unionist plants.These same people who throughout this seven year SNP independence hiatus that have kept the cause of independence alive are somehow enemies of Scotland. He reaches this absurd position because we agitate for independence. Some might rightly say to that man,’what have you done to promote anything but yourself for the 20 odd years you have been at Westminster?’ How dare he suggest that these people, who give their time freely for the cause of independence are bad people. He has encouraged pro independence SNP people that the pro independence media should be shunned and despised. He thinks that because we dare to criticise an Independence party that declines to move on Independence we are agents of the crown. I say to Mr Wishart, my colleagues are not receiving an obscene annual salary and pension from the English Parliament, you are though! We do not get subsidised food and housing funded by the taxpayers. None of us has a single desire to be Speaker of the English Parliament. Every day we promote Scottish independence for free, indeed for most of us it costs to do this.You need to remember just who puts you into your privileged position every five years. You should be ashamed of your actions, sadly you are too self obsessed and not bright enough to realise anything but your own reflection!

I along with my fellow pro independence colleagues pleaded with the SNP for years to avail themselves of our reach and dedication to independence. They chose to ignore us and instead have made peace with the devil. Our SNP leader now makes common cause with the anti-Scottish MSM. Using the Daily Record, The Sun, Scotland on Sunday, The Guardian daily she launches attacks on the pro independence Alba Party and its leader Alex Salmond.

For decades these newspapers that with every edition carried SNP Bad, SNP Accused lies and smears are suddenly now protecting and promoting the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon? These organs of the British State Ms Sturgeon and Mr Wishart want you to believe are now good guys.They want you to believe these papers that for decades, have called you cybernats, snake oil salesman, bravehearts, vile separatists are on your side. At the same time they want you to believe the people that from day one have always been on the same side as you are now the enemy.

Sadly, a lot of SNP supporters have drunk that cool aid. It goes against all logic as does the bothvotes SNP. If people keep listening to the nonsense coming from the anti-Scottish MSM via, Ms Sturgeon and Mr Wishart we will end up with a Parliament much like the last one. Perhaps a small SNP majority, more likely and SNP Green ‘arrangement.’ What we will also end up with are five more years of heartbreak and no independence.

You can either continue to believe the MSM or listen to the pro independence Media. Let logic guide you, not tribalism or propaganda.Vote SNP in the Constituency and Alba in the Regional List. Then on May 7th we can begin work on Scotland’s Independence. This really is The Last Saloon, if we let this opportunity pass us by independence will be off the scene for decades to come.

Saor Alba gu brath.