WHAT an excellent letter on Monday from Bill MacGregor (Time is running out if we want to avoid UK risks of dire situations, October 5).
I agree entirely with what he says and I will repeat what I have said in the past: “I can’t understand why our SNP politicians and leaders can’t see for themselves what’s coming and take some action to avoid it.”
They really must move on independence NOW! The impending doom emanating from the Internal Market Bill is there for everyone to see. A bill like that is not introduced by a reasonable, law-abiding government. It is introduced by a rogue parliament in a rogue state that intends riding rough shod over its people for personal gain.
We’ve suffered the delays to independence due to the “Fight against Brexit”. Now we are having to suffer the further delays to independence due to the Covid crisis. And now our parliament can’t even get on with planning for next year because the Chancellor in London has delayed the British budget “because of the problems surrounding the economy due to the second wave of the virus”. Quite frankly that’s a load of bullshit!
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He’s delaying the Budget because, as Bill MacGregor’s letter pointed out yesterday, he and Boris intend supplanting the Scottish devolved parliament. There will be a British Budget for all of Britain next year and it will be run from Queen Elizabeth House. Holyrood will be bypassed. There will be no need for a Scottish Budget. It will all be run by the Westminster Parliament sitting in the debating chamber in QEH, and by the end of next year Holyrood will no longer be needed.
So, just for the benefit of all those people who keep telling us to be patient over independence, there isn’t going to be any independence. The plans out on the internet concerning the Scottish Reserve Bank state that it will be introduced into parliament in October 2021 following a successful independence referendum result in September 2021. Well, that’s not going to happen. Boris will not give us another Section 30 order, and, with a bill that allows Westminster to supersede Holyrood, any attempt at passing a bill to hold an advisory referendum or form a Scottish Reserve Bank will simply be overruled.
Since it is really Dominic Cummings who runs this country and not the Westminster Tories (they’re only front men), don’t be surprised if Boris isn’t told to annul Holyrood before the proposed election next May. That way the SNP won’t even be able to use that election to gain another mandate for independence. Indeed, that may already be part of the unfolding plan. In the same way that 3,000 members of the armed forces have been put on standby in case of “civil unrest”.
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Before you all start laughing and telling me how mad I am, just consider these facts. The parliament at Westminster has introduced legislation that will allow it to breach both international and domestic law. They have made provisions to breach the Good Friday Agreement, the EU Withdrawal Agreement, the Scotland Act and even the Treaty of Union. These are not reasonable people. They are ruthless, devious and dangerous. They cannot be trusted. We must act before they do. BE WARNED!
Charlie Kerr
Glenrothes
IN his (very) long letter enumerating endless complaints about Angus Robertson’s column, Peter A Bell (Letters, October 6) says: “It isn’t easy trying to find new ways of saying the same over and over, week after week”.
And yet when it comes to criticising senior SNP people, Peter manages it effortlessly.
Douglas Turner
Edinburgh
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