They had 300 years to fix the Union ... and look at the state of it

It was heart-warming to read comments from people of all political persuasions publicly stating that the preferred option for them now would be an independent Scotland.

And those are the people we must as an independence movement embrace and be at hand to provide factual accounts on whatever topic they ask about.

We do not live in a union by consensus – the Supreme Court ruling proves that. We have a runaway populist government in Downing Street increasingly looking more despotic and desperate to attempt to blame everything on someone else, be it migrants, nurses, postal staff, train drivers or the SNP.

The mainstream media on this archipelago have long since lost their pretence of impartial investigative journalism. They obviously now just peddle the populist line, attacking whoever they are ordered to attack.

The imperial hierarchy will be feeling that the narrative is slipping from their control. The plebs are looking around and realising that the deplorable living conditions are not caused by people crossing the Channel but most certainly caused by the incompetence of a pyramid scheme passing as government.

Let us not forget that the parasitic suckers have had 315 years of the Union to sort a competent form of government and have chosen to spend that time seeing how much public money they can “divert”.

Am I claiming that they are a corrupt, malignant cancer? Yes.

Am I claiming that it starts with the unelected head of state? Yes.

Am I claiming that the House of Lords is the greatest travesty in a supposed democracy? Yes.

Am I claiming that the Commons is nothing more than smoke and mirrors to distract from the corruption further up? Yes.

In a period of increased hardship and rUk government-inspired workplace unrest maybe we can take some comfort from the words of Ben Okri: “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

Cliff Purvis

Veterans for Scottish

Independence 2.0

SNP Armed Forces and Veterans

I DON’T suppose I’m the only one who remembers Yes supporters being told in 2014 that if Scotland gained independence, the wonderful multi-ship contract promised to the Clyde yards would not go ahead as it was UK Government policy not to award defence contracts to foreign yards.

We didn’t get indy and the multi-ship contract shrank substantially. It appears from recent events that either government policy has changed or the original statement was just another rung on the long ladder of bullshit we were fed in the run up to indyref.

I suppose the connection is Spain, an increasingly fascist country, and therefore to be admired and befriended by the current Tory government, which obviously has aspirations in the same direction if judged on their current proposals with regard to striking workers.

On another note, in the interest of its renowned even-handed, unbiased, neutral policy, should the English Broadcasting Corporation ask Mick Lynch to host his own interview programme and pose questions to the current Minister of Transport and sundry other Spanish dancers.

Barry Stewart

Blantyre

AFTER the de facto UK General Election, it is hoped that the electorate of Scotland will have voted above 50% for designated pro-indy MPs.

How these UK MPs from Scotland should exercise their votes subsequently would appear relatively simple and clear. Any vote for any bill at Westminster which does not include an amendment to commence negotiations to deliver independence substantively before the Holyrood election in 2026 should not receive any vote from any pro-indy MPs.

This simple message must be given to the electorate of Scotland prior to the de facto UK General Election, as a basic requirement of the democratic process.

How the electorate of England chooses to vote for in that election, in response, is a democratic matter for them. What version of ConDemLab austerity they choose for England is up to them.

Scotland will, with 50%-plus, have voted for a resilient society in Scotland but England is expected to simply vote for differing types of austerity to be applied across the UK, as they have for the last four decades.

Substantive independence would presumably be deemed as close to achieving a new currency, a new central bank, international recognition and EU membership.

The vote in Scotland will be crucial to Scotland becoming an independent EU nation state with its own currency, with a fair resilient society at its heart. The vote in England, most likely a vote for a rainbow stasis, of political games, and a sociopathic, corrupt, unprincipled, mendacious, governance of ConDemLab austerity.

Stephen Tingle

Glasgow

I WAS interested to read Christopher Bruce’s letter on Rory MacLellan’s article about “The Scots Who Helped Create Modern Japan”, (The National, December 12).

He mentions Thomas Blake Glover’s role in making Mitsubishi into the “world-beating giant” it is today. Maybe that historic link with Scotland influenced Mitsubishi’s decision to set up in Livingston?

I am the proud user of an Ecodan air-sourced heat pump made by Mitsubishi workers in West Lothian and exported all over the world.

These are the kind of peaceful and positive green jobs we could do with lots more of please!

Malcolm Bruce

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