AFTER about 10 days of almost continuous inciteful remarks/undemocratic comments from Tory leadership candidates, the disgraced clown prince of a PM, Brit government officials and their complicit media (with reporters not challenging some of their outrageous insinuations/opinions against Scotland and our right to self-determination), two Scotindy MPs, Kenny MacAskill and Neale Hanvey, “took up the cudgels” in the parliamentary debating chamber and slammed into Johnson and his fascist gang of criminals sitting behind him regarding their undemocratic stance against Scottish indy progress.
In my opinion this action was inevitable after witnessing a disgraceful period when Scotland and the Scottish Government were being used as a “political punch ball”. One question I’d naturally raise regarding this episode, when both protesting MPs were ejected from the chamber, is “Why only two Scot MPs? What happened to our other MPs in the House of Commons?”
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I’m assuming Ian Blackford et al are still “playing the game of politics” in the face of ridiculous mocking and disrespect against them! I hope they took in the same observation as I did just preceding the ejection of both Scot MPs – all the Unionists together (not just Tories!) full of antagonism and demanding their removal from the chamber.
The SNP position in this parliament of inequality is becoming intolerable and I’m beginning to lean towards some of Charlie Kerr’s recent sentiments in The National’s letters pages – we are dealing with an antagonistic and uncooperative fascist bully who is trying to render us powerless to leave a failed Union, shackled to their unwanted Brexit arrangement (a con, a lie by the way!) in the process. Tory government permission is required to initiate a Scottish referendum in October 2023?
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This is an unacceptable farce and it should be contested vigorously all the way up to the point when we approach the UN or an international court for a rightful intervention on behalf of our sovereign country, Scotland, with a government that has tried so hard to follow a peaceful and lawful process of transition to self-determination.
I just wish a lot more of our voting citizens, who have been “sitting on the fence” regarding the whole Scottish constitution issue, would finally “turn” in the face of this outrageous political behaviour from a fascist government down south that is not going to “play ball” on this issue, with different rules being applied compared to the likes of the province of Northern Ireland and other countries that have actually ceded from the UK years ago and never looked back.
Bernie Japs
Edinburgh
ARCHIE Drummond of Tillicoultry (Letters, July 18) referring to the recent walkout by two Alba MPs, believes that “this brief stushie had, and will have, no effect on the cause of our independence”. However I seem to remember that the single largest increase in SNP membership since the 2014 referendum was on the day the whole SNP group walked out of the House of Commons chamber.
I suspect that the actions of the two Alba members will have led to a further leakage of SNP members to the Alba party. Protest has its place in politics. In the coming months, and sadly possibly years, it will be needed if we are ever to be able to achieve an independent nation.
Glenda Burns
Glasgow
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