This week has been a monumental seven days of resignations, nominations, communications and denunciations. Several prominent independence supporters have declared their intentions to stand as Independents for Independence at the upcoming UK General Election.
They tell us they have lost faith in the political parties to advance our cause. They have stepped out of the shadows and into the full glare of the political goldfish bowl. Pioneers or sacrificial lambs? With independence running at 53% and SNP support at 39% and others at 1% could the 13% be encouraged to support these candidates?
This, of course, has caused consternation in some political parties as well as annoyance to some very fragile egos in those parties. We ask our panel if they believe this news is just a couple of people or do they think that a groundswell of independence minded individuals will enter the political arena and upset the cosy concencus between the independence parties.
This week my panel of Lloyd Quinan, Eva Comrie, Phil Boswell are joined by this week’s mystery guest, Iain Lawson the Paisley Mohawk himself. There is a load of independence campaigning experience in our panel that share their views on this item.
The topics of the week are several and varied. We have a huge supporter of Freeports being paraded as a new member of the Alba Party and we ask if this is a precursor to a change of policy by the Alba party?
All parties have people with different views and stances on matters of policy. However, at such a crucial time with the two Freeports about to be declared, we discuss if this is the wisest time to be giving publicity to such a champion of the much hated freeports initiative.
Not to be outdone on highlighting policies the Scottish people oppose Angus Robertson of the SNP is trailing the idea that the SNP should remove their objections to WMD on the Clyde. The panel discuss this tenet of the independence movement and ask is it truly possible that the SNP could ditch what has been the core policy after independence?
It seems to the casual observer of Scottish politics that the strategists of the independence parties have been truly spooked by the haemorrhaging of their membership and the rise of grassroots activity that they gave indulging in shock and awe tactics to try and deflect from the growing trend?
This week we also had another UK Spring Budget where the English Chancellor does his usual and transfers more of the nations assets to the elites offshore bank accounts. We were not surprised to see that is exactly what was done yet again.
There is to be yet another raid on the Scottish Oil and Gas sector to fund more neoliberal doctrine abd provide money for investnent into English infrastructure.
We also heard of the third reduction in National Insurance and it has us asking are the Tories intending in removing this tax altogether and with it the entire welfare state? 19th Century here we come!
We highlight Rachel Reeves who is possibly going to be the next English Chancellor and discuss the priorities she set out this week for any incoming Labour Government. Spoiler she out toried the Tories!
Stephen Flynn SNP leader at Westminster this week articulated perfectly everything that is wrong about the union and why Scotland needs its independence. Unfortunately, he did not offer even a hint as to how we achieve that goal. The panel give their opinions and suggestions on a road to independence.
All this and so much more on your favourite Scottish Political Review Show.
This week has been a monumental seven days of resignations, nominations, communications and denunciations. Several prominent independence supporters have declared their intentions to stand as Independents for Independence at the upcoming UK General Election.
They tell us they have lost faith in the political parties to advance our cause. They have stepped out of the shadows and into the full glare of the political goldfish bowl. Pioneers or sacrificial lambs? With independence running at 53% and SNP support at 39% and others at 1% could the 13% be encouraged to support these candidates?
This,of course, has caused consternation in some political parties as well as annoyance to some very fragile egos in those parties. We ask our panel if they believe this news is just a couple of people or do they think that a groundswell of independence minded individuals will enter the political arena and upset the cosy concencus between the independence parties.
This week my panel of Lloyd Quinan, Eva Comrie, Phil Boswell are joined by this week’s mystery guest, Iain Lawson the Paisley Mohawk himself. There is a load of independence campaigning experience in our panel that share their views on this item.
The topics of the week are several and varied. We have a huge supporter of Freeports being paraded as a new member of the Alba Party and we ask if this is a precursor to a change of policy by the Alba party?
All parties have people with different views and stances on matters of policy. However, at such a crucial time with the two Freeports about to be declared, we discuss if this is the wisest time to be giving publicity to such a champion of the much hated freeports initiative.
Not to be outdone on highlighting policies the Scottish people oppose Angus Robertson of the SNP is trailing the idea that the SNP should remove their objections to WMD on the Clyde. The panel discuss this tenet of the independence movement and ask is it truly possible that the SNP could ditch what has been the core policy after independence?
It seems to the casual observer of Scottish politics that the strategists of the independence parties have been truly spooked by the haemorrhaging of their membership and the rise of grassroots activity that they gave indulging in shock and awe tactics to try and deflect from the growing trend?
This week we also had another UK Spring Budget where the English Chancellor does his usual and transfers more of the nations assets to the elites offshore bank accounts. We were not surprised to see that is exactly what was done yet again.
There is to be yet another raid on the Scottish Oil and Gas sector to fund more neoliberal doctrine abd provide money for investnent into English infrastructure.
We also heard of the third reduction in National Insurance and it has us asking are the Tories intending in removing this tax altogether and with it the entire welfare state? 19th Century here we come!
We highlight Rachel Reeves who is possibly going to be the next English Chancellor and discuss the priorities she set out this week for any incoming Labour Government. Spoiler she out toried the Tories!
Stephen Flynn SNP leader at Westminster this week articulated perfectly everything that is wrong about the union and why Scotland needs its independence. Unfortunately, he did not offer even a hint as to how we achieve that goal. The panel give their opinions and suggestions on a road to independence.
All this and so much more on your favourite
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This was a cracker again, BB. So glad that you and Iain have buried the hatchet because you both make, with all your guests, such a great contribution to our country’s story on its road to independence.
I read what Yvonne had written, and I just cannot see how that could have been a mistake, and it definitely undermines ALBA policy, but there you are. We have to move on from it.
Chock-full of important items. I agree with Iain in that I don’t think we are in such a guddle really. What is happening to us happened to the Irish, too, and it is happening to the Welsh, and, sooner or later, it will happen to the English, too, if, there, it is not already happening as well, as the English people begin to flex their muscles.
The Union is in its dying phase, but it could take a good number of years yet or its demise could happen overnight.
Yes, the Freeports are yet another con, yes the oil will not run out any time soon and yes, the SNP has completely betrayed us, yes, the Greens are toxic ordure and, yes, we need to achieve our independence through a constitutional convention in the first instance with all ideas being put in a sieve and sifted to allow the best to get through and the rubbish to stay behind in the sieve.
What we absolutely have to do meantime, is get rid of the useless, the craven, the insane and the psychopathic out of all the parties where they have been feeding like parasites and growing fat and more demanding on our lifeblood. If these drones continue to infest the parties who make the policies we all have to endure – or fight against, and I prefer the latter – it will make life so very much harder than it need be. The arrogance of British Labour and the Trades Union movement are despicable, but it seems likely that Labour will win in the UK. If we can whittle them down, so much the better. I think that we are heading, in Scotland, for a full confrontation on female rights and on independence.
In England, female rights are also set to clash with Labour policy. It is hard to believe that the maddest lot are my own sex. All these things are biting chunks out of the Establishment, whatever they do. Needs must when the Devil drives, and many Scottish women are finding common ground with English women on the matter of our rights, but that does not mean that many Scottish women have abandoned independence. Rather, the contrary. Independence per se, however, will not get rid of this plague of misogyny and deviant behaviours. We will be juggling several balls (!) and keeping them all in the air at once because we will have to, simple as that.
In an independent Scotland we should do away with all political parties and politicians,we should keep the civil service though.They will be used to administer the laws which the people will make by electronic voting.That the people get exactly what they vote for every time, and we never have to put up with corrupt lying self serving politicos ever again.
I read today that following the UK’s Chief of Staff Gen Patrick Sanders calling for UK conscription the Latvian government is now calling for EU wide conscription like the British are considering.
The political system may be broken but our ability to wage war, and we are at war, has nothing to do with democratic choice.
Like WW1 many would just go off to the great slaughter. That’s just how it works.