ON reflection.
Well the dust has settled, the chairs, tables and tally sheets have been put away and a new era has arisen from the frantic activity of yesterday. I say new era because when Johnson the liar talks of one nation, he in fact means England. Nothing that his party stands for has been embraced by Scotland, quite the reverse in fact. The Tories’ slogan was that we were to vote for them as a last chance to save the Union. Great idea, but unfortunate for them, along with most of their MPs, it has been sent packing.
It is fair to say that the three “traditional” parties, the Unionist parties, have had their day in Scotland.
Year on year we are told how bad the SNP are as the party in power and year on year the results of elections say otherwise. These results are produced in the face of severe and almost total negative propaganda from the cabal press and TV. Not to mention the crazy antics of Unionist supporters on social media, those little scallywags that they are.
I dare say that the aforementioned Unionists will be hammering away on the keyboards, using advanced theorem in quantum mechanics, slide-rules and the odd sacrificial goat to prove that Scotland did in fact oust the SNP and all that we now walk on is Toryland!
The reality is of course so much different as a direct result of the Etonian little Engerland nationalism the very vassal states they wish to keep are now on the brink of waving them goodbye.
For myself and others that I have talked this over with, there is now only one choice for Scotland and that is to get indyref2 done. If Johnson fails to honour the political aspirations of the Scottish voters then it has to go through the courts. And please at this stage I send a message out to all the Unionists claiming 55% of the Scottish vote. Not one party got that number, so after spending the election campaign slating Labour and the LibDems, you can’t in all honesty lump their votes in with the Tories.
Life does not work like that and all that you are doing is highlighting to the world the magnitude of your desperation.
Interesting times and the tic and toc are both building in intensity.
Cliff Purvis
Veterans For Independence 2.0
BORIS Johnson’s call for unity following his success in England is nothing more than a demand that everyone should follow his party’s line.
This can have no resonance in a Scotland which has just soundly heeded the call to reject Brexit and hold indyref2.
The Tory MSP Donald Cameron showed breathtaking arrogance in his claim on BBC radio that the SNP did not really campaign for a referendum and so had no mandate.
There are now at least three mandates, indyref was mentioned at almost every opportunity and the manifesto explicitly states that “an SNP election victory will be a clear instruction by the people of Scotland that a new referendum on independence should be held next year”.
One way or another we must vote to take back control over our own affairs. The Tories must try to explain why exiting the EU is a good thing for the Scottish economy (when it plainly won’t be) and why England should decide our future instead of ourselves.
I wish them luck because Project Fear won’t work again. Far from unite behind Boris, now is the time to oppose him more than ever.
Robert Fraser
Edinburgh
IT’S early Saturday afternoon, after doing some morning tasks around the house while listening to election analysis, I decided to find an old film to relax to.
It turned out to be the wonderfully animated version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. I paused just after Farmer Jones – the old guard – has been thrown out and the animals. All are excited about a bright new future. So happy working for their new equal government.
In the background lurks “sly Napoleon and his fat pig Squealer”, says the narrator. bA situation very similar to England today. How excited are those in the former mining and industrial towns of Northern England who voted for a bright new beginning.
We think of Christmas is pantomime time, what a great role for Johnston and Gove to play Napoleon and Squealer.
Except reality is no pantomime, Johnston and Gove are the spitting images of these two pigs.
I was taught Animal Farm in school in the 1970s and the danger of socialism. They could not have been further from the truth. It is 2019, England.
I don’t know if I want to see the rest of the film, time for Scotland to leave the theatre by any emergency exit. That we were taught correctly.
Bryan Clark
Maybole
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