One of my regular readers had this letter published earlier this week in the National. I know a great many of you never read or buy that ‘newspaper.’ I think this letter re. SSRG Conference and non appearance of certain invitees is worthy of a wider audience. Please share this far and wide it is worthy of that.
2nd August 2022
Dear Editor
During 2014 those of us trying to involve the Labour Party in debates about independence began to discover that, here in the West of Scotland quite often you would get agreement for their attendance at an event and then a cancellation at the last minute leaving audiences with the impression that you had excluded the Labour Party or not tried very hard to include them!
As an old campaigner who can remember the early days of anti-apartheid activity, I can say that it was not very popular and you were often characterised as a left extremist although that shifted as the movement grew and the influence of the churches and civic organisations participating, brought the idea of a very broad sphere of influence.
The Scottish Sovereignty Research Group held a very successful weekend conference as outlined by Geoff Bush in today’s National.
I put up a message of thanks and congratulation to SSRG on Twitter and received many likes and retweets but also some hostile comments about the Alba ‘domination’ of the conference or its description as an ‘Alba front’.
If we are to restore our independence we will need to build a united campaign and we will need to work with people we may not like.
In my long years of campaigning this has always proved to be true.One of the most memorable day’s of my life was the day Nelson Mandela walked free and of course many people world -wide remember this. It looked impossible but we did it with support across the world.
We can restore the independence of our ancient nation with campaigning and international support but we will only achieve it with a united front.
I have never been in the SNP but I always gave them complete
support when it became apparent that the Labour Party had lost touch with its grassroots.
I also know that unity always wins and takes the prize.
Let’s get our Yes movement going again and listen to all the new ideas out there!
Yours sincerely
Maggie Chetty.
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Maggie is right. It was a braw conference and sadly one of very few if any devoted entirely to Scotland’s national independence and liberation. It was a scandal then that none of our elected 100+ SNP ‘nationalist’ MP’s and MSPs participated, aside from Doug Chapman who turned up for a few hours on the last day of the event. And he looked and sounded decidedly uncomfortable, as if he was up some blind alley, awaiting the memo of rebuke from on high.
Fowk cannae ser twa maisters.
We cannot put our trust in any one politician or party what is needed is a AUOB approach to ending this dictatorship. Standing on a ticket to dissolve the Union then withdraw our PMs after a successful pebicsite Election.This corupt state is now beyond the pale we must get out and use the next election to do this.
It is just untrue to claim that the SSRG conference was somehow ALBA dominated and excluded speakers from the SNP. A few speakers were ALBA members, but at least four speakers, maybe five, were SNP members, and two of the speakers who called off were SNP members. We were conscious that we should attempt to achieve a balance or risk the sort of ill-informed criticism of imbalance that seems to have occurred anyway.