IT may well be the time of the year where the nights are drawing in and extra duvets and hot water bottles are being looked out but I for one feel surprisingly optimistic as to what waits for us over the coming months.
Scotland has this last year and a bit weathered a storm what with the pandemic, the constant assault on our democracy from the foreign capital from those Tory, Labour and Libdem imperialists combining with their office managers here in Scotland. Their chants, moans and drivel are all by design nothing more than attempts to undermine at every turn the good progress Holyrood makes.
We of course have also had some home grown spreaders of dissent and intrigue that even now find themselves squarely in the spotlight their actions quite rightly held up for public ridicule.
All these and some more have been dealt with and our parliament is still open and our democratically elected government functioning at a standard only dreamed of but never matched by that rancid administration sitting in the heart of the ruck.
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Our First Minister continues to win accolades from around the world, this she does as that same world watches on in jaw dropping disbelief at the goings on in Downing Street, Whitehall and within the Palace of Westminster.
Never to my mind have we seen such incompetence, such inability, such wretched behaviour from a sitting prime minister and his gaggle of a cabinet. Oh but what marvellous timing it is to have gross incompetence south of the Rio Tweed and such strength in government to the north of it.
We have had very recently a General Election here in Scotland and under the two different systems by which we elect our members of parliament a majority of MSPs now sit in Holyrood that support the holding of a second independence referendum. A referendum that will be held as per their manifestos in the first half of this parliament such is the democratic will of the Scottish Electorate.
Without doubt Johnson and his gaggle of brats will huff and puff assisted by Labour the Libdems with all their so called “Lords, Ladies, retirees and hangers on”, all joining in to save their precious, joined like some grotesquely inflated character from Lord of the Rings.
They have of course no desire for the peoples of Scotland they only desire our land, they have no respect for our history only a lust for our resources, they have no best wishes to send only prophecies of doom in short they are snake oil salesmen and should in consequence of that be sent packing at the first opportunity.
Well we did not do that in 2014, we failed, we failed to convince so many people and with that failure for most of us we thought the chance gone and it would have been had it not been for the Westminster way of doing business.
They have never been respectful of treaties, never mindful of promises and convention is only there to suit their needs. Not for nothing did the Arabs call them the “nation of buts”, in so far as they will promise the sea, the land and the sky to be yours for just one signature then on the last page of the treaty come the clauses, the buts.
This they have done in all lands, to all peoples throughout their disgraceful history and explains the actions of Johnson and his delusional cabinet. Those fourth rate politicians that dared to assume they could manage four nations in a withdrawal from a major trading organisation, during a pandemic whilst calls for Independence have never been stronger in three out of the four nations. What arrogance of the public school system they display, they may well have studied history but they have none of them learned from history. Scotland has, and we have learned that in these last 314 years we have had scant perks of being partnered up to the most abusive partner of the modern era.
Our referendum is coming and before it arrives we need to have our act together, have the truth to hand to give to those that will listen.
We have probably all seen these last few weeks an increase in banshee like whining from unionists as they realise that this next referendum will not go their way.
So let’s use the time from now to polling day to our advantage let’s get ourselves ready for what I think will be a busy two years. Our future is bright, independence is right.
Cliff Purvis
Veterans for Scottish Independence 2.0
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