My guests this week are Yvonne Ridley, Phil Boswell and Tommy Sheridan. We discuss the up and coming Yestival in George Square on Sunday, 18th September. It is an event all independence supporters need to attend to send messages to Bute House and Westminster. We the Scottish people demand you hear our democratic wishes, or else!
We debate the UK Government’s opening remarks on the Section 30 Supreme Court case. The merits of referring our case to the UN and civil disobedience.
We give our opinions to the looming energy crisis and what we must do to try and mitigate the severity of it all.
Everything though always comes back to this single same point. We cannot fix anything until we have independence. We have some ideas on how that happens. Join us from Noon Sunday. Live here, on Twitter and YouTube. Enjoy,comment and share.
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Wow, great show. Just magnificent.
I have a big problem with the Scotland Act (devolution) routes because they, inevitably, involve Westminster as the sovereign parliament and Holyrood as its creature. It was always going to be very much more difficult to get out from under with the Scotland Act and devolution because they are beholden to domestic law – i.e. British (mainly English) Law and, therefore, controlled to a huge extent by Westminster and Whitehall.
The CoR and the Treaty are far more open to our need to find a route that is not ruled by Westminster, and even a properly organised GE, with full co-operation between all the independence parties (that’s what the Unionist ones do, after all) but without formality (which is illegal) could work because, although reserved, the primary form of democracy is not in the gift of Westminster and a mass people’s movement could afford the momentum necessary to win and, then, to approach the UN. Unlike Tommy, whom I admire, I wouldn’t be waiting around for independence, but have it declared immediately, on the strength of the election (a legal form of UDI) coupled to a case based on the CoR and consistent breaching of an international agreement between two (then) independent, sovereign nation states. We already have at least four or five mandates; the Supreme Court will say, no, albeit it might just remit it back to the Scottish and England courts for a final adjudication. It should have gone to the Scottish courts first.
Phil is right in that we need first-rate constitutional lawyers who are willing to fight our corner. It infuriates me when I read something from some constitutional lawyers that talks down challenge via the CoR and Treaty. Maybe we won’t be successful, but we have to try. Defeating ourselves before we even get a case off the ground is suicide. The Treaty is the founding document for the UK of GB, and all that has followed has flowed from it. If it does not stand, neither does the UK and we become a part of England, and, logically, eligible for colonial status. I cannot for the life of me understand why so few would challenge on the Treaty breaching because Westminster knows the value of that Treaty for us. Again, we appear willing to accept that it is dead while Westminster and the Lords plot incessantly to turn it into domestic law, so that they can get their mitts on it. England as the UK can’t have it both ways: it either is crucial to the survival of the UK or it isn’t, and, if it isn’t, why plot so assiduously to undermine it?
Yvonne is spot on, too: we need, as independence supporters to all stand together against this existential threat to our country, Scotland. It used to be: don’t mention the war. Now, it’s: don’t mention Brexit. I could weep when I think of the opposition to it that came to naught. All of us who spoke out against it were ridiculed, but now, only a fool would imagine that it does not play a massive role in the mess we are all in.
Roddy, you are spot on, as well: the middle-classes will never move their backsides until they suffer (speaking generally, of course). They would happily see the poorest pay the price always. I agree with Tommy that we don’t wish pain or poverty on anyone, and, indeed, many middle-class people began life as working-class, but we need to be realistic; many have forgotten that. Margaret Thatcher was brought up in a lower middle-class family; she knew nothing of real hardship; and later, she married a millionaire. Things were not good before that, but this downhill trend towards real misery for people came with her policies. It has become worse and worse. Yes, our water will be targeted; yes, our wind energy is already being targeted; and anything else that Westminster and the British State reckons is fair game will be targeted. It is in their interests to keep us poor, underdeveloped and beholden to them. It is de facto colonialism.
Hi Roddy, I seem to be locked out of your blog. I would not have seen the last three except that I accessed your site. I commented today on the Prism, and it has disappeared, too.
I have no idea Lorna except my opinions on GRA and Russophobia seem to upset the powers to be I am blocked on numerous FB sites my tweets are restricted on twitter and many people cannot access my tweets or blogs I am at a loss how to correct it apart from saying Men can be women if they like and Ukraine is not full of Nazis and doesn’t commit war crimes Let’s be realistic that is never going to happen!
It is why I need everyone to share my blogs abd podcasts. I can assure you I have not locked you out
No, I thought it might be a technical hitch, but it is happening now with all the blogs. I’m not on FB or Twitter and if I have to go to prison for speaking out, I will – on both independence and the ‘trans’ issue, and others. The first thing I would do is try to convert the ladies there – assuming they put me in Cornton Vale and not Barlinnie! I have never known a time like this and I never thought I’d live to see it: fascism in action. Determined to get to George Square in September.
I have already booked my flights. Might just do a Prism from there too!
Normal, honest people avoid dept, yet the filthy rich just become RICHER!
Scotland cannot remain as London’s “Cash Cow”
but that changes when Scotland regains its
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I wholeheartedly ECHO Lorna”s praise of today’s prism and her subsequent comments , I also believe that the SSRG and SALVO constitutional arguments should be highlighted endlessly and supported VOCIFEROUSLY by ALL independence supporting ORGANISATIONS and PARTIES , to this end I would ask Tommy Sheridan to please invite SARA SALYERS and members of SSRG and SALVO to YESTIVAL to give a talk to the YESSERS
Would second that, twathater.
Further to my earlier comment – which was posted too soon – I now realise that there are better and much more relevant ones that I prefer to my own few words! Sometimes, in the face of almost constant and Unrelenting Kindom (UK) propaganda, I’m guilty of using a modified response… this isn’t good and may sometimes fall short of what I ought to have written; however, perhaps touching on concurrent political gripes, but these remarks will almost certainly keep appearing for some time to come, so please excuse me on this occasion?
I am delighted to have read and mostly agree with the other commentators here,
Ewen
Love the show but disappointed that I am unable to comment under the video on Youtube.
You can just hit the comment button
Only now was able to get online to witness your absolutely wonderful show, Roddy. We in the North are engulfed in a thick blanket of depressing sea fog but your contributing Yessers have totally raised my spirits.
Here’s to the YESTIVAL in Glasgow on September 18th. Great that Tommy stressed it’s for ALL YES PEOPLE.
Even the ones that want to exclude us all from their campaign.
That really was a great show Roddy. Just watched it again for the second time. When Tommy speaks you’d like nothing more than to jump up , go out the door and start a revolution.
There is nothing more I’d like, than to be there with you in George Square on the 18th, but I live abroad and am the sole permanent carer for my wife who can’t travel.
It really is disgraceful how FB and Twitter are blocking you – I’m not on these platforms myself but always forward on your blogs and podcasts. Scotland owes you and all the other Independence bloggers a huge debt of gratitude. It’s hard enough having to rail against the might of the colonial oppressor, but when you’re up against what should be your own countrymen who are putting obstacles in your way, that is sickening.
But the message for the 18th has to get out there. How about huge posters, billboards etc. Is there an account where you could donate?
I see you made the MSM Roddy . why doesn’t Phil Boswell spill all the beans on the goings on in North Lanarkshire or could it be he just made them up for brownie points ?
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/jordan-linden-scandal-just-tip-27748029?fbclid=IwAR3SqrjvLf2J5iGHXzLlUQ7DN5EV8YvLaC6gjX4Ad6AhmrXd1GXXDqxIJlc
I will rush to tell someone called Shug that quotes the Express what Phil knows πππ