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Only a referendum is going to fairly represent the people in terms of votes. Humza Yousaf has previously indicated his preference for building the movement until it’s impossible to ignore us. We don’t hold all the cards there though and nothing is guaranteed, so if a majority of seats at the next election is enough […]
Rutherglen and Hamilton West voter David McClemont seriously considered voting for the Labour Party until Starmer and Sarwar hijacked the party’s climb back from the depths that Blair and Brown’s New Labour had dragged it… As a lifelong supporter of Scottish independence, in 2019 I did something that I had never done before. I voted […]
The obstacles to our independence are not all about media-led rabid unionism, or floating voters. We have a problem within the movement, something really toxic. It resembles a kind of auto-immune disease, a drive to eat away at the host and make barren the soil it depends on; the movement itself. The dreaded anniversary of […]
David McClemont @DavoMc82 hosts with Kat Cary @kat_cary and Brian Finlay @WeeSociologist. This week’s topics; Scottish Govt Credit Cards Rutherglen & Hamilton West by-election Robin Harper Vs Scottish Greens Click for link to the song Kat mentions. She says “The actual line that I (tried to) sing starts at 2:35”. Music – The Charlemagnes – […]
Voters for Forbes or Regan were aware that GRR would be kicked into the long grass, serving as precedent for a power grab at any piece of legislation deemed unpopular I never found it particularly difficult to understand why the Red Wall had fallen to the Tories in 2019. We’ve been living under the […]
As for the grass roots, we pull out the tough old weeds and start again. Pick up our movement from where it left off. It’s already happening along the lines of single issues when it comes to protest against buffer zones, GRR threat, climate change, visiting fascists, immigration raids. No need to carry a saltire […]
By Stephanie Melnick She hasn’t even formally resigned as First Minister yet, and I already miss Nicola Sturgeon. As an SNP member myself, I’m looking at the list of candidates with increasing horror as more and more statements come out from both Ash Regan and Kate Forbes that make me genuinely frightened about where they […]
As a Trans Woman, I am terrified to join the current campaign in the by-election for an Edinburgh City Councillor in Corstorphine; I am terrified of leaving my house and when I do, I am deeply afraid that I will not return home again, because of the high level of hate against Trans People. And […]
David McClemont (Twitter: @DavoMc82), Debra Torrance (@HeathPeaPict) and Brian Finlay (@WeeSociologist) discuss the latest events in Scottish and UK politics NEWS – Scottish Government to put Calories on Menus – Conspiracy Theory Targets Scottish School – Voter ID Laws – Matt Hancock Harassed on Tube Music by @HippyMuzic Art by @HeathPeaPict Edited by @HeathPeaPict
If the federalism shills couldn’t see this coming, they really weren’t looking. This move essentially leaves Labour without even the pretence of argument for the reformable UK that we’ve been promised since 2014. We’re as close to federalism as we are to the moon, and thus concludes the centre ground arguments against independence. Take time […]