A GOOD few days have passed since that disappointing UK Supreme Court judgment which was certainly expected, but still very disappointing regarding the implications for the way forward towards self-determination.
I’ve listened to speakers, including our esteemed First Minister, outside the Scottish Parliament, and one particular American speaker was knowledgeable and inspiring regarding our human rights as a sovereign people of a wonderful country, Bella Caledonia, with so much potential to do much better as a vibrant, fair-minded independent country.
I’ve read some great letters in The National following that historical judgment presented by Lord Reed on the morning of November 23 – a variety of learned opinions regarding an extreme political constitutional position that had been clearly presented.
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Remember the date – it is important to remember that date as much as September 18 2014, Scottish referendum day, together with Saturday September 20 when thousands of Scotindy supporters defiantly gathered outside the Scottish Parliament in spite of a hugely disappointing rejection of Yes for Scottish independence, the only occasion in history that a country’s populace had voted against gaining its own self-determination.
Now that the dust has settled on this momentous announcement by Lord Reed, I perceive a number of profound “takes” regarding the politics governing our quest to gain Scotland’s right to self-determination.
Firstly, I have no doubt that we are regarded as a “soft touch” by the people within the British/English political establishment who are driving this policy of intransigence when it comes to Scotland, the Scottish Government and the will of the Scottish people to change things constitutionally. Our peaceful stance prevails, has done for a very long time, but it places us in a position where fascists like the present ones in London will continue to treat us as a “soft touch” and know there will be no severe ramifications to knock them out of their comfort zone.
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That’s where we are at present, and all we can do is focus on the de facto referendum/General Election route as more time is taken up to even get to that point in time when it actually happens. The common suggestion of a Scottish Independence Convention, gathering in and unifying all Scotindy factions, is a very good move that has to be done urgently.
Life will go on in Scotland – that’s the Scottish way we do things!! However, I don’t think it has yet sunk in to the heads of a lot of people here in Scotland – Scottish voters of all persuasions – what has actually happened. The political ramifications will follow eventually as the reality of this constitutional game of chess pervades our communities all over Scotland – it is not a “good look” and more and more people will begin to realise that the Better Together arguments and other reassuring promises to the Scottish people regarding being equal partners etc are totally false – blatant political deception finally exposed and now rancid with a fascist political flag attached to it!
Bernie Japs
Edinburgh
THE United Kingdom: no legal way for immigrants to get in, no legal way for Scotland to get out. Tory governments that change with no redress to the people just like the USSR. Democracy my arse.
Kenny Burnett
Aberdeen
ON Tuesday I read just about the most objectionable letter I’ve ever seen printed in the National. I sat down to work out a reply to its quite frankly infantile content. Then I thought better of it.
No intelligent independence supporter or reader of The National would have seen it for anything other than what it was. A pile of offensive and desperate rubbish (and perhaps an indication that some people are merely masquerading as Yes supporters and think we are all daft).
Nicola Sturgeon agreed to turn up at the recent demonstration in Edinburgh apparently at the last moment. Presumably she had been down at Musselburgh or having a dook or something. I decided not to bother giving oxygen to the rest of the rubbish and decided just to be positive.
This is the FM that has seen the Scottish Government through the Covid pandemic, is battling against the economic collapse of the Brexit UK yet has kept SNP support –despite relentless thrashing by virtually all the media (broadcast and printed) – at its highest ever point, with more support than all the Unionist parties put together.
The huge amount of work that the SNP government is putting in to bring the whole world with us is monumental. But presumably “Sturgeon” went off to the recent Nordic gathering in Iceland for a wee holiday and went off to USA to meet with high-ranking American government officials so they could teach her how to play the banjo.
We have never had a better leader. And the constant demented attacks on her are all the evidence we need to underline that.
Dave McEwan Hill
Sandbank, Argyll
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