SHOCK horror: David Frost – the clown whose complete stupidity and ineptitude has reduced the standard of more than 60 million people’s lives due to his preposterous Brexit negotiations and may well have helped restart the Troubles in Northern Ireland – tells us Scotland wanting independence is immoral.

Shock horror: Ruth Davidson doesn’t try and freshen up the ludicrous House of “Lords”.

Shock horror: some of the Scots whose lives have been terribly affected by more than a decade of nonsensical Tory policies shout and scream at two of the people absolutely up to their necks in some of those decisions. Cue faux outrage for people actually getting a chance to tell them what they think. Never, ever forget that every time a representative of the Scottish Government stands to talk in the House of (anything but) Commons, he or she is heckled, jeered at, shouted down, told to go home, or if it is a female representative, has to endure barking noises. This in a so-called civilised place at the very top of the English establishment.

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Shock horror: Anas Sarwar fails to attack the Labour-led (another Unionist fix) Edinburgh council workers for rubbish lying in the streets.

Shock horror: Sunak and Truss tell us all they will ask the Scottish Government to explain their actions on everything they do, including on failing in education and the health services when in reality they should be asking for their help, not pretending to chastise them. We have a situation where arguably the most corrupt government on earth is going to police the one that, while far from being perfect, is light years better than Sunak and Truss’s. Cue the groans, the irony is off the scale. 

Is there really a single Tory voter up here, shouting for tighter Westminster control of Scotland, who can’t see the absolute catastrophic mess the Tories have made on these islands in the last decade? It’s quite simply beyond words seeing and hearing people calling themselves Scots moving heaven and earth to try ensure their own country never prospers. Can they not see their actions are actually damaging the prospects for their own children? It could only happen in Scotland, and is absolutely heartbreaking.

Shock horror: a man is appointed as a period dignity officer after the role was advertised with absolutely nonsensical wording. Make no mistake, Scotland is on the brink of achieving independence and righting the wrongs of something that should never have happened in the first place, but they seem to be doing their damnedest to mess this up by seemingly being obsessed with this transgender subject.

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Unless they are careful, they will lose us this opportunity to take control of our own future, and the SNP will never be forgiven, as the majority of Scots would definitely vote Yes, but there are huge swathes of undecided, ordinary working families who are fed up to the back teeth with everything to do with the Westminster fiasco, but still need to be reassured that if they back independence for the first time that they will have a government who will strive to be able to offer better pensions, better schools, a better health service, and a government that actually cares about them, and will prioritise the real things that matter.

The time is now, it’s time for them to deliver as for the umpteenth time, you don’t go to a gunfight with a pea shooter. Going cap in hand to another country’s rulers, who absolutely rely on our huge resources, and expecting them to say “you go with our best wishes” is quite simply downright madness.

It’s time to get real, as the sooner we are just friends and neighbours the better.

Iain K
Dunoon