Well, are you? Are you listening yet? If you are one of those who tirelessly defend the SNP day after day no matter what, are you listening yet? If you spent the months prior to this year’s Scottish general election urging people to vote SNP for independence, are you listening yet? If you commended “Swinney’s three-point independence strategy”, are you listening yet?
Now that John Swinney’s first hundred days are up with no sign of that ‘Big Secret Plan’ he was supposed to have up his sleeve for when the British state used the veto he gave them to overrule the mandate he claims to have despite failing to replicate the fluke result in 2011, are you listening yet?
Now that John Swinney’s first hundred days are up with little or nothing of what he promised having been delivered, are you listening yet?
Now that John Swinney’s first hundred days are up and no draft Referendum Bill published, are you listening yet?
Are you now ready to listen to the voice of dissent? Are you at long last prepared to give a hearing to those who tried to warn you that you were being duped?
You must have realised by now that you’ve been had. You must know you were lied to and deceived by the SNP leadership. You must surely be aware of just how empty their electioneering rhetoric was.
So, are you listening yet?
Are you an MSP who was elected on the back of John Swinney’s lies and deceit? Are you ready to listen to the voice of dissent within the independence movement? Or now that you are safely ensconced in your well-remunerated position for five years, will you continue to rent your soul to the independence industry?
Are you someone who casts a jealous eye on that well-remunerated position and sees no reason why you shouldn’t use your own empty rhetoric on the constitutional issue to get yourself a piece of that action? Are you one of those who peddles fantasy politics and magical thinking about voting strategies and elections pretending to be referendums? Are you among those flogging the idea of a de facto referendum on independence when that could not possibly work, and even if it could work, it’s a referendum on something you cannot possibly deliver?
Are any of you ready to listen to those of us who don’t see the constitutional issue in terms of its usefulness as an electioneering device?
Are you ready to listen to those of us who have taken the trouble to learn from the past and, yes, from the tricks and tactics of our opponents when these were successful?
Are you ready to listen to those of us whose thinking on the constitutional issue isn’t confined to that wee British box Nicola Sturgeon put it in over a decade ago?
Are you ready to hear some painful truths about the parties and personalities you have elevated out of reach of whatever critical faculties you haven’t disconnected completely?
Are you now open to hearing the truth about Scotland’s predicament? Are you willing to open your mind to fresh perspectives and novel ideas? Are you prepared to think the unthinkable?
Are you up for turning a new page on the story of Scotland’s cause? Are you ready to act in the manner of a sovereign citizen of Scotland? Are you able to set aside partisan loyalty and personal grievance the better to serve Scotland’s cause? Are you capable of questioning first your own prejudices and preconceptions?
Are you a Scottish nationalist?
There has been little doubt that there has been an increase in both the volume and intensity of comments expressing dissatisfaction with the total lack of progress on Scotland's Cause over the last dozen years.
However, I guess an answer of 'Yes' to your question will depend on whether those that have been gulled, conned, and led up the garden path onto the road to nowhere have the courage to recognise and admit that they have been so tricked.
swinny is a tra itor to the people of Scotland. The snp are tra itors to the Scottish people.
Could it be arranged for him to be doorstepped EVERYWHERE he went. Or at least the big events he is going to. We need to make him squirm. We need to make him hate his job.