Quote Originally Posted by donsdaft View Post
Hemmin 57 min.

I've always realised you've had it in for the SNP.
I've always just assumed that it's because you've been involved in politics at various levels and grew to dislike them, possibly because they were a danger to Labour ( albeit left wing labour)

But why against Scottish independence? Not just your obvious dislike of tartan wearing shortbread eaters.
I’m not against Scottish independence. I’m just fed up, and was glad to hear Kate Forbes articulate it during a podcast, of hearing ‘independence’ described in abstract, without its being made concrete by, as she said, showing the people of Cromarty or Dingwall what it will mean for them, what with the new spurning of the previous grievance major of “oooor ile”, big in the local economy, and what independence means for them in their daily lives.

Salmond tried hard with the 2013-14 White Paper, but there were huge structural gaps, a lot of premises based on guesswork, and some ill-fitting stuff that would be far more at hone in a Party manifesto (childcare provision was not strategic in the context). It’s probably the best effort there’s been, but it was vague, and based on too many ifs and buts to be convincing to enough voters.

I also think that the panic-buying of lavvie paper, diesel, and foodstuffs three years ago was as endemic north of the Tweed/Solway as it was elsewhere, trashing, as farcas I’m concerned, the “wha’s like us” fanciful insecurity-based exceptionalism that I hear spouted.

“Fûck the English” isn’t good enough.

As Gram Parsons wrote,
“The man on the radio won’t leave me alone
He wants to take my money for something that I’ve never been shown”.

Interesting in today’s Scotland On Sunday that research is now showing that whilst support for independence is pretty static around the mid-40% mark, voters are sidling away from The Party.

The SNP is now becoming a problem now that Sturgeon’s iron fist is gone, and the former pee-heeing dissemblers are backtracking from their Sturgeon quim-licking that has been obvious to many of us for as long as she and her beard have been in the top jobs.