FOR a lie, a fib, a complete misrepresentation of the truth to work you at least need to be-able to convince the majority of your audience for even the shortest of times. The trouble with the present day Tory party is that everyone knows that as soon as a Tory opens their mouth they are bending the truth.

Every open-minded, level-headed person in Scotland regardless of politics can see now the death spiral of the Union. We are witnessing the sordid last attempts of an archaic political system to save itself or at the very least push the end back by a few years so that it happens when they are not in power.

Alister Jack who is even less capable a politician than his leader Boris Johnson is in many respects the victim of his own party’s policies, the fall guy for the Westminster elite’s inability to strike a deal and then abide by the rules contained in that deal.

This for Scotland needs to be a lesson learned as it undoubtedly will move into the talks on the severing of the Union. We of course as a nation re-emerging into statehood will have allies abroad and those allies will ensure that an archaic monarchy-based political system does not ride roughshod over a democracy.

The mess that has been the UK exit from the EU undoubtedly has annoyed if not angered EU states and as such they will be only to willing to lend a hand in our first few months post independence vote. Gone will be the unwillingness to interfere, gone will be any loyalty to the lame-duck Union.

The continued attack on the elected government here in Scotland by political parties that are now of no relevance in the modern forward thinking Parliament in Edinburgh highlights their impudence.

Those parties are not of Scotland but of Westminster. Those parties do not wish any changes, for they are happy to swap seats amongst themselves every five years knowing that come retirement it will be the City or the House of Lords they end up in. Those parties have not had an original thought since 1707.

Those parties are, as a result of all of the above, continually trounced here in Scotland at the ballot box. Results that are beamed around the world for all to bear witness to.

We are at the end of this democratic experiment as conducted by those regarded on the world stage as without morality – to wit I mean the aristocracy of Britain.

I would sooner trust the adder’s fangs than that shower of venomous, self opinionated megalomaniacs.

The world is all too clear on what it means to be kissed by the lips of their established order and all the world and those living on it will rejoice to see that aristocratic line finally fall.

Cool heads are required now because it would be all to easy to go for our referendum too early. I have stated that September 2023 is my best guess for when it will happen however things might well move quicker as the Johnson administration sinks slowly into the effluent of a broken system. Not one person can possibly say with certainty when the dislocated supply chain will cause the backlash to happen, not one person can say with certainty exactly when the polluted and poisoned waters will cause the system to break, after all the only certainty is that it will happen.

Here I would like to reiterate that I bear no malice nor ill feelings towards the good people south of the Rio Tweed and I am sure that Scotland will stand to assist you as you get rid of those that have led you in this corrupt dance.

Looking at the daily panic management coming from Downing Street, it is reminiscent of the DDR in its final months and it fell very quickly.

Johnson is scared as he looks around to see few friends on the stage of world politics. He is regarded by the world as the rather sad comic character in a village fete production of a fourth rate play. It will be an interesting footnote to the final days of the British Empire that it found itself like every empire before it absolutely unable to save itself, it quite honestly and frankly ran out of credit.

But as has been said we can only face those on the day that oppose us, any politician or diplomat with even the slightest level of competence has long since bolted from the imperial stable, no doubt with the fate of Pompeii and Herculaneum playing in their minds. Two towns from the Roman Empire that were blotted out by one natural disaster, buried and eventually forgotten and a similar fate awaits all London-based parties in Scotland as they face a tsunami of public opinion as the electorate retake the state of nationhood from the talons of the brutal aristocracy and once more Scotland stands tall with its allies and with its friends.

Cliff Purvis
Veterans for Scottish Independence 2.0