THIS is an open letter to leaders in the SNP, Alba, Greens and every other independence organisation. THE CAUSE OF INDEPENDENCE MUST COME ABOVE ANY OTHER BELIEFS!
You need to breathe and eat, but if you stop breathing, eating doesn’t matter. Choking on your gristle-laden Union Jack-labelled steak pie proves that!
After independence, Scotland will be defined by the new parties we vote into power. Whether these policies are green, left or right, the people of Scotland will make the decisions that historically shape our country, for the first time in our history.
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Right now all your jobs should be to get us independence. We aren’t going to cuddle our way to independence singing kumbaya, sitting around a smokeless campfire with a midgie zapper powered by a wind turbine earmarked to power Norfolk just as soon as they can run the cable down the North Sea.
I’m sick to death of the independence elite bickering more amongst themselves than fighting for independence.
Seriously, the rot that an arrogant UK has caused with Brexit is just the start. To make up for such a self-destructive act, the faceless Etonian elite will exploit the only card that the UK has left. The tattered, creased card of its UN Security Council and fondness for all things military. Their arrogance and desperation may well write cheques that Scottish arses will be used to cash. Then they will use it for another 70 years of flag-waving British indoctrination of the descendants from the generations they sacrificed.
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Dependence on that isn’t an option, it provides no future, it offers no hope and in the case of the UK’s support for a genocidal Israel, it’s downright sickening.
So, if Ballie and Kerr can pursue everlasting Union without bickering, you lot have a far better cause to work together for!
Get everyone in the room, write a draft constitution for a new Scotland and then make that what people vote for at the next election. Not parties or ideologies. Those can be pursued when the reality comes to fruition.
Solidify around Efta and Nato membership. Purely as a starting point, because without Efta membership we can’t have access to EU markets while still trading with an isolationist UK, and without Nato membership no country will recognise our independence!
The current aggression in Ukraine will ensure that no Western countries will recognise Scottish independence if it will weaken European defence.
Start now, time is of the essence. The bones of many animals are found in Africa where they got stuck beside an evaporating waterhole instead of taking the journey to drink from the abundant fresh water of river!
Mark Breingan
Cumbernauld
IS Ash Regan the second most conceited public figure in Scottish politics (after Salmond)?
She had three options at the vote of no confidence: vote for the Scottish Government; abstain; vote with the Unionists.
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It is now recorded history that she voted with the Unionists. Remember, this is an MSP that was returned to Holyrood as an SNP candidate. She subsequently ran for leadership of the SNP, and failed, then turned her coat and joined the grievance party. She has also failed to allow her constituents the right to vote on that decision, an inaction positively dripping with cowardice.
Now we have this latest snipe at democracy by Regan as directed by Salmond. It is an action that I, for one, will never forgive her or her gang of wannabes for.
We will have an election within the next eight months and I will discourage anyone that will listen in voting for Alba. Vote SNP.
Cliff Purvis
Veterans for Scottish Independence 2.0
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